Why and How Technology Matters
Year: 2009
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This article explains the importance of technology to politics. The first reason to pay attention to technology in political studies is that such a focus on the technological in society will reveal aspects of politics that remain unnoticed otherwise. The study of technologies also shape political concepts and discussions and a focus on technology helps to recognize the boundary work that fuels practical politics. This article concludes that technology should matter to political studies because it matters to politics and explains that there is no simple answer to the why and how questions about technology's influence on politics.
Source: Oxford University Press eBooks
Author: Wiebe E. Bijker
Institution: Maastricht University
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1569953235