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Abstract: Critical theory of technology combines insights from philosophy of tech-nology and constructivist technology studies. A framework is proposed for analyzing technologies and technological systems at several levels, a primary level at which natural objects and people are decontextualized to identify affordances, complemented by a ...
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- Andrew Feenberg
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- 2005
May 17, 2023 · Andrew Feenberg is a pioneer in the development of the philosophy of technology. Before his retirement, he was the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where he also directed the Applied Communication and Technology Laboratory (ACTL). He is the author or editor of thirteen books on Critical Theory, Western Marxism, and the ...
Mar 24, 2021 · To answer this question an account of the theory of technology across critical theory will be provided as a starting point. The second section offers a contemporary assessment of the relevance of the theory of technology in critical theory, taking recent literature on digitization and surveillance capitalism as examples that appear to confirm the prognoses of first-generation critical theory.
- Gerard Delanty, Neal Harris
- 2021
Jun 1, 2014 · Theories on Motivation. Motivation is a way of creating high level of enthusiasm to reach organizational goals, and this. situation is a ccommodated by satisfying some individual need. Basically ...
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- Types of Workplace Technologies
- Types of Relationships Between Technology and Motivation
From the 67 publications, the earliest works are from Denise M. Rousseau and Oldham and Brass applying the ‘Job Characteristics Model’ by Hackman/Oldham from the 1970s.Footnote 1While office automation was a popular topic in the 1980s, works by Teresa M. Amabile on creativity and intrinsic motivation had an undeniable effect on motivation research ...
Different authors provide different understandings of the influencing technologies—the terms used vary greatly. Table 3provides an overview of these terms. Many authors work with rather general terms to include physical environmental aspects. Expressions like situation (Heckhausen and Heckhausen 2010), job/work context (Herzberg et al. 2017/1959; H...
Ten publications adhere to Herzberg’s view on work conditions as a hygiene factor (Herzberg et al. 2017/1959). This paradigm highlights the constraining characteristics of workplace technologies. As these design elements and technological applications change over time, the original empirical results are called into question (Siemens 2005). Therefor...
- Yvonne Schmid, Michael Dowling
- 2020
Nov 2, 2017 · In Critical Theory of Technology (1991), Feenberg draws on neo-Marxian and other critical theories of technology, especially the Frankfurt School, to criticize determinist and essentialist theories. In this groundbreaking work (which went into its second edition in 2002), he discusses both how the labor process, science, and technology are constituted as forms of domination of nature and human ...
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Nov 4, 2020 · We identify the four following schools of thought on workplace technologies and motivation: Technology as 1. background music, 2. hygiene factor, 3. motivator, and 4. influencer of mediators.
