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Technology as Social Practice

Year: 1996

Type: article

Abstract: This essay questions the commonly-held view that computer technology is a tool that will in and of itself improve education, and ultimately ameliorate social ills. The common view stems from the belief that technology and social practices are separate, a belief articulated here as the Technology Independence Assumption. The invalidity of the assumption is shown through an analysis of the ways that technologies are encoded in social relations and conversely. Thus, the argument is made for a view of technologies and social practices as mutually constituted systems.

Source: Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Author: Bertram C. Bruce

Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: English

Topic: Digital Education and Society

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1579360248

FWCI: 4.502

Cites: 16

Cited by: 15

Related to: 10