The technosocial is all about relationships, “between human and computer, and between humans and mediated by the computer.” (Jenny Weight, p.414)Our ‘textual conversations’ are no longer dialogical, with a sender and receiver of the information. Rather, they have developed into something new, something subtle.
Yet it is not something completely new, as technology is and always has been a product of human ingenuity and therefore part of our communicative lives. It is a human artefact. “It is incorporated into human lives and facilitates human activity.” (Jenny Weight, p. 415) A tool that has been created by us extends our reach, our sphere of influence and knowledge yet it is not separate nor alien from us. “Technologies must be understood as existing in relation with humans rather than as discrete objects.” (Jenny Weight, p.414) The technological apparatus is ultimately human.
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Ultimately human... yeah. I've always liked Bruno Latour's definition of technology as "society made durable".
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