Three: In the positive scenarios presented by the classic utopian discourse, technological innovations go hand in hand with the moral improvement of man and the enhancement of his ability to assume responsibility.
Any niche level innovation (in spite of any claims to being the emergent dominant social model) struggling for ascendance will often try to establish legitimacy by recourse to a discourse of technological innovation—"We have the technology, this time it will be different"!
According to Steensen [64], research on online journalism has been dominated by a discourse of technological innovation.
This will involve the in-depth investigation of the social dynamics, political discourse, and technological choices inherent in the design and development of the next generation of networks.
Falkner observes "there seems to be a connection between the paradigm shift in the epistemological approach, the technological development, the societal discourse and the metaphors that have been used to describe, explain and argue the new field of synthetic biology and its revolutionary nature".
This study provides insight into these challenges and opportunities through the lens of a socio-technical analysis of big data development, which includes social dynamics, political discourse, and technological choices inherent in the design and development of next-generation ICT ecology.
But in an explicit departure from the technological determinism of modernist discourse, they sought to emphasise that transformation would require a great deal of additional work and to reframe technology as opportunity for rather than driver of organisational change.
To analyse the regulatory conflicts, this paper links three theoretical perspectives: issue-framing, agri-environmental discourses, and technological development as a real-world experiment.
We focus on scientific and political discourse portraying a technological solution to tackle dengue disease as a public health problem.
The focus on policy subsystems reveals how cities as socio-technical configurations are made up of subsystems, policy fields or action fields with different actors, interests, ambitions, institutions, discourses and different technological opportunities.
