Placing Globalizing Technologies: Telemedicine and the Making of Difference
Placing Globalizing Technologies: Telemedicine and the Making of Difference
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DOI：
10.1177/0038038508101163
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发表时间：
2009-04-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Halford, Susan
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作者：
Dyb, Kari;Halford, Susan
新的信息和通信技术的发展和扩散已经产生了一些关于地方消失的深刻主张。虽然这些主张在政治和政策上引起了持续的共鸣，但它们在强调地方持久性的社会学辩论中受到越来越多的挑战。沿着这条线索，我们的文章探讨了技术和地点之间的关系。我们通过参与科学技术研究，行动者网络理论和地理概念的地方发展我们的理解。我们的论点是通过对远程医疗的一项新的实证研究来进行的，在远程医疗中，新技术被精确地应用于克服地方。相反，我们的分析是，经验结果只有通过地点的镜头才能清晰可辨。这对当代全球化辩论中的技术思考具有重要的政策意义和更广泛的意义。
The development and proliferation of new information and communication technologies has generated some profound claims about the erasure of place. Whilst these claims have continued political and policy resonance, they are increasingly challenged in sociological debate, which emphasizes the persistence of the local. Following this lead, our article explores relations between technology and place. We develop our understanding through engagement with Science and Technology Studies, Actor Network Theory and geographical conceptualizations of place. Our argument is worked through a new empirical study of telemedicine, where new technologies are applied precisely to overcome place. Our analysis is that, on the contrary, empirical outcomes are legible only through the lens of place. This has important policy implications and broader implications for thinking about technology in contemporary debates about globalization.