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	Domestication of Technology Analysis	Social Shaping of Technology
Field	Science Technology Studies	Science Technology Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1992	1985
Originator	Roger Silverstone, Eric Hirsch, David Morley	Donald MacKenzie, Judy Wajcman, Robin Williams, David Edge
Type	Qualitative analytic framework in media and technology studies	Analytic tradition and method in the sociology of technology
Seminal source	Silverstone, R., & Hirsch, E. (Eds.). (1992). Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces. Routledge. ISBN: 9780415067003	MacKenzie, D., & Wajcman, J. (Eds.). (1999). The Social Shaping of Technology (2nd ed.). Open University Press. ISBN: 9780335199136
Aliases	Domestication theory, Domestication approach, Taming of technology analysis	SST analysis, Social shaping approach, Shaping of technology framework
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Summary	Domestication of technology analysis studies how people 'tame' new technologies—turning a strange, commercially loaded object into a familiar, taken-for-granted part of everyday life. Developed by Roger Silverstone and colleagues to understand media and information technologies in the home, it treats consumption not as a single moment of purchase but as an ongoing process through which artefacts are appropriated, given a place, woven into routines, and made to express identity. The household is analysed as a 'moral economy' that negotiates the meaning and use of every technology that crosses its threshold.	The Social Shaping of Technology (SST) is the umbrella tradition in the sociology of technology that rejects technological determinism and argues that the content and trajectory of technical artefacts are themselves outcomes of social, economic, organisational, and political choices. Rather than treating technology as an autonomous force whose effects society must merely absorb, SST analysis opens the 'black box' of design and shows that at every stage—conception, development, standardisation, and use—things could have been, and were, decided otherwise.