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However, later media ecologists bend toward the "soft" version of technological determinism, which sees technologies as facilitators of change instead of determinants, and constantly moulded by their users [51].
Although scholars have argued for many years against the strong version of technological determinism, the general belief that technology is a major force shaping society, which dates to the early nineteenth century, still pervades popular culture in the United States and Europe.
Ironically, critics of the harmful effects of technology tend to reinforce the strong claims of technological determinism.
One writer described this ethos as a "contradictory mix of technological determinism and libertarian individualism," the philosophy that technology can fix everything and that the only evil is government regulation.
This view of technology is often criticized for a greater or lesser degree of technological determinism.
Combining the targeted search and scan elements and using data mining of the results of both enables policymakers to better avoid the trap of technological determinism and to attend to the social pull factors of new technology developments.
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But there is no reason to surrender to technological determinism; no reason to accept the smug conclusion of Silicon Valley that in the war between privacy and technology, privacy is doomed.
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The relationships between these several worlds raise not only specific methodological issues, but also epistemological questions like the need of overcoming technological determinism and the socio-material perspective (Fenwick, 2010).
There is a far more complex, and unpredictable, interplay between the behavior of technology's users and the intentions of its designers than the proponents of simple-minded technological determinism acknowledge.
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