Authors: Evan Selinger
Publish Date: 2008/12/04
Volume: 168, Issue: 3, Pages: 377-403
Abstract
The purpose of this essay is to 1 detail how recent trends in philosophical theory have made it possible for philosophers of technology to critically discuss technology transfer 2 demonstrate that economic standards of assessment are conducive to obscuring the hidden tradeoffs that technological practices such as mobile phone use in Bangladesh can engender and 3 provide the basis of an alternative model that can reflexively addresses dimensions of technology transfer that neoclassical economic accounts occlude
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