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Social Shaping of Technology

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.

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Social Shaping of Technology (SST) Analysis

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MacKenzie, D., & Wajcman, J. (Eds.). (1999). The Social Shaping of Technology (2nd ed.). Open University Press. · ISBN 9780335199136
Williams, R., & Edge, D. (1996). The social shaping of technology. Research Policy, 25(6), 865-899. · DOI 10.1016/0048-7333(96)00885-2

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