technodeterminismとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From techno- +‎ determinism.

名詞

technodeterminism (uncountable)

1. The theory that technology drives improvements in society and culture.

   Coordinate terms: techno-futurism, techno-optimism, technophoria, techno-utopianism

   • 2012, Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You:

     Technodeterminism is alluring and convenient for newly powerful entrepreneurs because it absolves them of responsibility for what they do. Like priests at the altar, they're mere vessels of a much larger force that it would be futile to resist.

   • 2016, Geert Lovink, Social Media Abyss: Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     Technodeterminism is an essential stage in such a learning curve, whilst a broader understanding of neoliberal society (and its history) remains another vital pillar.

   • 2017, David Tyfield, Rebecca Lave, Samuel Randalls, Charles Thorpe, editors, The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science‎, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Ideologies of technodeterminism and libertarianism emerging from the Silicon Valley influenced advanced capitalism at large with their visions of the free technological entrepreneur as the engine of progress and wealth creation (Barbrook and Cameron 1996).

参考

• techno-utopianism