Select an organisational proces suported by technology; analyse it using concepts from either a technological determinist or a social construction of technology perspective.
Description:
Please select one of the folowing questions and prepare a 200 word esay. You should make use of photographs to ilustrate the focus of your asignment (maximum of 3 images).
Please folow the esay format guidelines:
– Font: Arial, Size 12
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– Spacing: 1.5
– Paragraphs: Leave an aditonal space
Q1. Select an organisational proces suported by technology; analyse it using concepts from either a technological determinist or a social construction of technology perspective.
– For example you may wish to consider one of the folowing examples:
o Buying a train ticket; ordering a cofe; clocking in/out at work; sicknes monitoring; banking; pasport control; your own choice.
References needed :
Diffusion of innovations – Everett M. Rogers 2003 (Book)
Does technology drive history?: the dilemma of technological determinism – Merritt Roe Smith, Leo Marx c1994 (Book)
Philosophy of technology: an introduction – Val Dusek 2006 (Book)
Philosophy of technology: the technological condition : an anthology 2014 (Book)
Rethinking objectivity – Allan Megill 1994 (Book)
Shaping technology/building society: studies in sociotechnical change – Wiebe E. Bijker, John Law 1995 (Book)
The social shaping of technology – Donald MacKenzie, Judy Wajcman 1999 (Book)
The sociology of work: an introduction – Keith Grint 2005 (Book)