Dear all,
One of my research articles titled 'Three Decades of Social Construction of Technology: Dynamic Yet Fuzzy? The Methodological Conundrum' got recently published in the journal 'Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy'
The theme of the article is based on the historical evolution of the intellectual tradition of Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) over the last three decades.
Abstract: Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) formed a key component of the 'new sociology of technology', which emerged in mid-1980s and heralded the entry of social constructivist theory into the domain of technology from science. A large number of empirical case studies were generated using SCOT methodology in the following three decades, encompassing a wide range of technological artefacts or systems. This essay reviews the trajectory of SCOT as a distinct intellectual tradition in technology studies. First, an attempt is made to appraise and classify the main strands of criticisms against SCOT that have come up over the years. Second, this essay discusses several new conceptual heuristics, which were successively incorporated by the original authors of SCOT, along with the concomitant broadening of analytical units and research questions. We conclude that, while SCOT demonstrated its resilience as a dynamic scholarly tradition and constantly adapted itself to address criticisms through the incorporation of new conceptual tools, the consequent methodological transition had profound implications for SCOT as a theory, somewhat undermining its original agenda and methodological distinctiveness in social studies of technology.
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New Delhi
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