What are the consequences of attributing agency to technology?
How can these consequences be addressed?
Provide an argument linked to at least two different theoretical perspectives.
The writer use certain reference readings:
First outline the arguments of tech determinists who say that with technology such as mobiles and the internet, democracy will come and modernity will come
Reference readings:
the early work of Manuel Castells
Wilbur Schramm,
Marc Prensky,
Everett Rogers
You could use postcolonial theory and/or political economy scholarship to show that technology does NOT bring democracy that the companies are still manipulating technology and markets eg. Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp.
You could discuss disinformation and misinformation.
What are the consequences of attributing agency to technology? How can these consequences be addressed?
