In this 2015 article, David Hess uses his experiences studying with renewable energy advocates to problematize the theoretical framework Talyor Dotson employs to construct a democratic politics of technology. Rather than resorting to the "unicausal method of semiotic or psychocultural analysis," Hess suggests the trifold conceptual framework of field theory: meaning, agency, structure (2015, 122).
David J. Hess, "Power, Ideology, and Technological Determinism", contributed by James Adams, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 30 May 2018, accessed 18 April 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/power-ideology-and-technological-determinism
Critical Commentary
In this 2015 article, David Hess uses his experiences studying with renewable energy advocates to problematize the theoretical framework Talyor Dotson employs to construct a democratic politics of technology. Rather than resorting to the "unicausal method of semiotic or psychocultural analysis," Hess suggests the trifold conceptual framework of field theory: meaning, agency, structure (2015, 122).