Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: Techno-nationalism and techno-globalism are descriptive and prescriptive categories for understanding the impact of technology on society and vice versa. They reflect the underlying assumptions made by analysts of the place of technology in the world, and denote ideologies, rather than technological policies or realities. They also help us to realize that standard accounts of the nation and globalization are not as securely based as they appear. Indeed, nations and states are important in ways techno-nationalism does not capture, and the international and global dimension is crucial in ways which that techno-globalism overlooks. Yet an analysis of both terms yields building blocks to a more sophisticated appreciation of the linkages between the nation, technological innovation and globalization.
Source: New Global Studies
Author: David E.H. Edgerton
Institution: Imperial College London
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: Lehigh University
OpenAlex ID: W2020110885