Social Construction Of Technology Analysis

Technology is indispensable part of modern life without no doubt. Human have technology in every part of our lives from industry to our shoes. At this point this questions is asked how has technology been human’s indispensable. There are three views to explain this question. First answer is that technology came into human life and shape our life unquestioned. This view is named as technological determinism. Second answer is that people develop technology with their choices, comments and etc. and maintain the developing to technology until the conformity to all. This view is named as SCOT (Social Construction of Technology. In this article, technological determinism and social construction of technology are discussed. Although technology enters …show more content…
311). It can be said that SCOT is a response to technological determinism because SCOT is totally against technological determinism. Trevor Pinch & Wiebe Bijker mention that “in SCOT, the developmental process of a technological artefact is described as an alternation of variation and selection.” (Trevor Pinch & Wiebe Bijker, pg. 31). As authors mention, there are series of changes in development of technological artifacts. Technological success and technological failure are very important part of development of technological artifacts and they have very flexible meanings depending on what is the relevant social groups. At this point, the main focus will be on comments. These comments stemmed from different relative social groups. The selection of social groups has comments is also important step to development of the artefact. The first question is whether the artefact has any meaning at all for the members of the social group. The most basic relevant groups are the users and the producers of the technological artifact. However there are many subgroups such as users with different socioeconomic status and competing manufacturers. On the other hand, there are also other relevant groups who are neither users, nor producers of the technology such as journalists, politicians, and civil organizations. For example; the first form of bicycle was not proper for both users and non-user. There was a lot of safety and technic problems of the first generation of bicycle. Non-users which are women and old people cannot use the device because they are not capable of using it in terms of athletism. On the other hand, it had not have comfortable and safe use. (Trevor Pinch & Wiebe Bijker, pg. 34) Therefore according to comments the first form of bicycle reached the nowadays form. The relevant groups can be separated based on their shared interpretations of the technology