期刊
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN VALUES
卷 48, 期 2, 页码 272-294出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/01622439211072205
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traveling technology; transfer; translation; typology; Global South
In the twenty-first century, technology flows are becoming increasingly diverse, calling for the update of concepts and frameworks. Reflecting on the tensions of technology transfer, technology translation is proposed as a complementary conceptual framework to understand the flow of technology. Taking a socio-technical approach, technology translation views artifacts as socially shaped with distributed agency, making technology flows unstable and unpredictable.
Technology flows are becoming increasingly diverse in the twenty-first century, calling for an update of concepts and frameworks. Reflecting on the inherent tensions of technology transfer, including its technocratic dreams, insensitivity to technological materiality, and narrow focus on certain human actors, we propose technology translation as a complementary conceptual framework to understand traveling technologies. Taking a socio-technical approach, technology translation views artifacts as socially shaped with distributed agency, which makes technology flows unstable and unpredictable. In so doing, we develop a typology to explain five technology flow scenarios, shedding new light on the mechanisms of technology traveling by foregrounding the role of translators. Last, we discuss the politics of translation and elaborate how technology translation opens new space to engage with the complexity and uncertainty of technology flows, especially in the Global South.
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