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Technopolitics (Jethani, 2024), encyclopedia entry

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Short reference entry by Suneel Jethani (University of Technology Sydney) defining technopolitics as a perspective on how technical objects, systems and logics mediate the relation between people and power, against deterministic views of technology, with a short reading list (Hecht, Feenberg, Fejerskov and others). Year from PDF metadata (2024; it cites work from 2023); the encyclopedia title is not printed on the pages.

Entri referensi singkat oleh Suneel Jethani (University of Technology Sydney) yang mendefinisikan teknopolitik sebagai cara pandang tentang bagaimana objek, sistem dan logika teknis memperantarai hubungan manusia dengan kekuasaan, menolak pandangan deterministik tentang teknologi, dengan daftar bacaan singkat. Tahun dari metadata PDF (2024); judul ensiklopedia tidak tercetak di halaman.

Topics

theory and method

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reference entry

Details

Date
2024
Creator
Suneel Jethani
Document type
book chapter (encyclopedia entry (2 pp.))
Language
English
Perspective
Scholarship
Source role
secondary
Period
1999–present
Access
Copyrighted publication; personal research copy. Copyrighted: share the file only with invited researchers on Drive.
Citation (APA)
Jethani, S. (2024). Technopolitics [Encyclopedia entry]. University of Technology Sydney. (Encyclopedia title and publisher to be confirmed.)
File
03 Theory and Transnational Feminisms/Technopolitics and Technofeminism/Jethani (2024) - Technopolitics (encyclopedia entry).pdf
OCR / text
Good (PDF text layer) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection
03 Theory and Transnational Feminisms › Technopolitics and Technofeminism
Summary basis
front matter, contents and introduction

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