Do artifacts act? Should agency be assigned to them in accounts of social change? Or are
human beings and social structures like groups and organisations the only social agents …

Despite no shortage of thoughtful analysis concerning how to more democratically develop
and assess new technologies, practical progress toward democratized innovation has been …

A central question in philosophical and sociological accounts of technology is how the
agency of technologies should be conceived, that is, how to understand their constitutive …

Several recent studies in science and technology studies (STS), and in the history of science
and technology, have highlighted the stochastic and uncontrollable nature of technological …

There is a strong tendency in the social sciences to understand and conceptualize the new
information technologies in terms of their technical properties and to construct the relation to …

What theories or concepts are most useful at explaining socio technical change? How can–
or cannot–these be integrated? To provide an answer, this study presents the results from …

This paper complicates, extends, and modifies Pinch and Bijker's original social construction
of technology, specifically their concepts of relevant social groups, closure, and stabilization …

Disruptive technologies can be conceptualized in different ways. Depending on how they
are conceptualized, different ethical issues come into play. This article contributes to a …

This chapter reviews recent developments in the rich and growing body of research and
theory which has come to be known as social shaping of technology (SST). 1 It is structured …

This essay reviews the German-language literature on technology and innovation and maps
the main developments in this fragmented field from a sociological perspective. It focuses on …