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In this episode of We Do Media Studies, your host Ati talks about philosophies of technology, discussing some of the greatest scholars in the last century. The episode talks its way around concepts like technological determinism, social construction of technology, and affordances.

Atinç Gurcay is currently a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

References:

• Bijker, W. E. (2009). Social construction of technology. A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, 88-94.
• Gibson, J. J. (2014). The ecological approach to visual perception: classic edition. Psychology Press.
• Hutchby, I. (2001). Technologies, texts and affordances. Sociology, 35(2), 441-456.
• McLuhan, M., & Cavell, Richard. (2016). On the nature of media: Essays in understanding media (First ed.). Berkeley, CA: Gingko Press.
• McLuhan, M., & Fiore, Q. (1967). The medium is the message. New York, 123, 126-128.
• McLuhan, M., & Lapham, L. H. (1994). Understanding media: The extensions of man. MIT press.
• Winner, L. (1980). Do artifacts have politics?. Daedalus, 121-136.

Comments or questions? Email atinc[at]uwm[dot]edu.