The Symbolic Shaping of Technology: A Study of the Influence of Culture on Technical Change

技术的符号塑造：文化对技术变革的影响研究

• 批准号: 9601371
• 负责人: Eric Schatzberg
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-07-15 至 1997-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9601371&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Symbolic; Shaping; Technology; Study; Influence

In recent decades scholarship has revealed the various ways that technologies may influence cultures, but rather less attention has been devoted to the complementary question, how does culture shape technology? Yet this question is at the heart of the history of technology, which aims to understand the design and invention process. Beginning with the well-established premise that technical criteria and economic forces are not sufficient in themselves to explain technical choices, this project proposes to elucidate the role of symbolism in bringing cultural forces to bear on technologies. The final product will be a framework that integrates the varied and scattered work on this topic, preparing the ground for subsequent empirical investigation.

近几十年来，学术界揭示了技术可能影响文化的各种方式，但对文化如何塑造技术这一补充问题的关注较少。然而，这个问题是技术史的核心，技术史的目的是理解设计和发明过程。从技术标准和经济力量本身不足以解释技术选择这一公认的前提开始，该项目建议阐明象征主义在将文化力应用于技术方面的作用。最终的产品将是一个框架，它整合了关于这一主题的各种和分散的工作，为随后的实证调查奠定了基础。