New technologies have the potential to severely “challenge” or “disrupt” not only our
established social practices but our most fundamental concepts and distinctions like person …

Scholarly discourse on “disruptive technologies” has been strongly influenced by disruptive
innovation theory. This theory is tailored for analyzing disruptions in markets and business. It …

Modern technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, geo-engineering, social media, or
next-generation genomics have been and will continue to be socially (culturally …

The term 'social technology'has little currency in reflections on society and the social
sciences. It appears to assume distinctions that have become increasingly problematic …

In this chapter I will examine critically some of the underlying sociological ideas present in
recent debates about the social acceptability of new technologies. I focus on the notion of …

In contrast to recent sociological emphases on the social shaping of technology, this article
proposes and illustrates a way of analysing the technological shaping of sociality. Drawing …

After several technological revolutions in which technologies became ever more present in
our daily lives, the digital technologies that are currently being developed are actually fading …

As science becomes more deeply embedded in a complex technological infrastructure, has
this changed the relationship between the sciences and the various technologies that …

This article formed the basis of what is now known as the Social Construction of Technology
(SCOT) approach. The piece can be understood as a concerted effort to disprove the idea …

How can we best theorize technology and the good society? This essay responds to this
issue by showing how our assumptions about the meaning of the social and the political …