Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The information culture is also about formal information systems (technology), common knowledge, individual information systems (attitudes), and information ethics. [8] information culture does not include written or conscious behavior and what seemingly happening in the organization. Information culture is affected by the behaviors of internal ...
Technology, society and life or technology and culture refers to the inter-dependency, co-dependence, co-influence, and co-production of technology and society upon one another. Evidence for this synergy has been found since humanity first started using simple tools.
Johnson described a cultural web, identifying elements that can be used to describe/influence organizational culture: [89] The paradigm – What the organization is about, what it does, its mission, its values. Control systems – Processes that monitor activity. Role cultures have vast rule-books. Power cultures rely on individualism.
Social construction of technology (SCOT) is a theory within the field of science and technology studies. Advocates of SCOT—that is, social constructivists—argue that technology does not determine human action, but that rather, human action shapes technology. They also argue that the ways a technology is used cannot be understood without ...
Blacksmith at work, Nuremberg c. 1606 The anthropology of technology (AoT) is a unique, diverse, and growing field of study that bears much in common with kindred developments in the sociology and history of technology: first, a growing refusal to view the role of technology in human societies as the irreversible and predetermined consequence of a given technology's putative "inner logic"; and ...
Finally, the unintended consequences of technology are unanticipated effects and impact of technology. The cell phone is an example of the social shaping of technology (Zulto 2009). The cell phone has evolved over the years to make our lives easier by providing people with handheld computers that can answer calls, answer emails, search for ...
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
Normative: an autonomous approach where technology is an important influence on history only where societies attached cultural and political meaning to it (e.g., the industrialization of society) Nomological : a naturalistic approach wherein an inevitable technological order arises based on laws of nature (e.g., steam mill had to follow the ...