@cwebber I've often framed for myself as: "Tech encodes social relations." Both in the sense that the social relations made possible by tech are constrained by its code, and that code is conditioned by the social relations around its production.
@lrhodes@cwebber I think the sociologists and anthropologists refer to this high-level idea using the term "sociotechnical"? It's a bit of a cheat cramming two words together, but there is a good (sprawling) research literature to draw on around it.
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@lrhodes @cwebber I think the sociologists and anthropologists refer to this high-level idea using the term "sociotechnical"? It's a bit of a cheat cramming two words together, but there is a good (sprawling) research literature to draw on around it.