Flowchart

Technology is an ASSEMBLAGE of various factors, such as attitudes, norms, beliefs, and social context

Too narrow, broad, and abstract

Rapid technological advances

Unprecedented social change

Changing social uses

Non-linear direction & recursive patterns

Ethics

Target groups & technological inequality

Simulation

Augmentation

The Stone Age

Ancient Technology

The Renaissance

The Industrial
Revolution

Electronic Times

Information Society

Filipinos use cellphones more than they do the internet because of their cultural context

Socio-technical norms

2nd Industrial Revolution

3rd Industrial Revolution

4th Industrial Revolution

1. Relevant social groups

2. Interpretive flexibility

3. Closure and stabilization

4. Wider context

Primary orality & secondary orality

Time bias & space bias

Friendships online

Romance online

1. Persistence
2. Searchability
3. Replicability
4. Invisible audience

Breakups 2.0

3 ways of how social media becomes normalized as a tool for daily communication

1. Media ideologies
2. Idioms of practice
3. Second order communication

Celebrities like Whitney Houston, for example

Niche dating realms

Streaming sites for a self-broadcasters

Reading is unnatural

Rejection of the "orienting response"

Coursera.com

Empathetic AI

Solution? Slowly limit exposure to redundant technology until gaps are found in daily routines

D: Screens nurture children

D: New modes of communication dissocialize young adults

U: democratic and accessible information

U: democratic and accessible information

The impacts of technology depends on the user and the technology's embedded values

Race

White superiority
because of technological
strength

Indians are "lazy" for not
participating in the rape
of nature

Religion

Christian missionaries
"debunk" Hinduism with
"Christian technology"

Steam engines

Railways

Telegraphs

The Opium Wars between Britain and
China was won by the Britain
because of steam gunboats

The Indian Mutiny was intervened
by British troops because they received
a telegraph before the lines were cut

A tool of surveillance, especially
after the Indian Mutiny —
rebellion suppressant

Capitalism

Rationalization

Power

Examination

Normalizing judgement

Mourning online

Virtual mourning

1. Family creates a narrative of the deceased’s life
2. Family expresses their sorrow online
3. Family praises the deceased
4. Family asks for the deceased's help

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Virtual stranger loss

Hierarchical observation

Strategies for protection

Sousveillance

Functional view

Revolutionary view

Cultural view

Superintelligence

Super happiness

Superlongevity

Bryan Johnson

Narrow AI

Deep Blue Chess Computer

Strong AI

Utopian and dystopian narratives

Medical usage, like
chemotherapy nanotechnology

Job loss

AlphaGo

Using technology to answer metaphysical questions

What is human destiny?

What is beyond the physical world?

What mysteries lie in the cosmos?

Ultimate end-goal: holistic and qualitative approaches to STS

Amish societies

Nation-state

Ideal speech situation

The spiral of silence

Community-lost

Community-saved

Community-liberated

Utopian

Dystopian

Supplemental (includes 4 additional mediating factors)

User's previous Internet experience

Previous forms of community

User's defining characteristics

Type of Internet use

2 emerging trends in the
Internet's effects of users

1. The richer get richer

Bonding social capital

Binding social capital

2. Networked individualism

Mechanical solidarity

Organic solidarity

Socially limited individuals

Socially connected individuals

Networked individuals

Havelock

Content of thought & organization of thought

Innis

McLuhan

The medium is the message

Ong

The Socio-technical approach

Tech and society mutually shape eachother

1. Vague in determining the cause of social change

2. Unclear on what links tech & society together to form a preliminary relationship

3. Vague on what gears support the mutual shaping process

Technological inequality

3 levels of technological inequality

1. Widening gap between capitalists and the workforce
2. The workforce demands more technological skills
3. Divide between industrial and developing countries

Social change

Technology facilitates change through information and communication technology for development (ICT4D)

Neutrality of technology

Technology is neutral if it falls into any of these categories:

Ambiguous use of technology

Tool of science

Uncontextualized tool

Technology as human destiny

Modern warfare

Technology as progress

But is technology always progressive?

Moral backwardness