HIST 31505 Chapter 2: HIST 313 in class discussion
17 Jan 2019
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1960s: role of technology in social, political, and economical problems. Alvin weinberg saw technology as solution to big problems. Technology kept people off the streets (ex. We are committed to fixing the things around us. Technology works when there are technical problems occurring. Training people and having policies makes things difficult. Non-users also matter: the construction of users and non-users of the internet. Resisters never use technology because they don"t want to: conscious decision, ex. Rejecters stopped using the technology voluntarily: choosing to stop, ex. Excluded: they can"t get access or were not the initially intended audience: ex. Expelled: stopped using technology involuntarily due to cost or lack of access: ex. Rejecters = transferred to other forms of medicine .
