Essays about: "technological myths"

Found 2 essays containing the words technological myths.

  1. 1. Imagining intelligent artefacts : Myths and a digital sublime regarding artificial intelligence in Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMK

    Author : Axel Allen; [2019]
    Keywords : artificial intelligence; AI; technological myths; Sweden; digital sublime; Vincent Mosco; news media; Svenska Dagbladet; SvD;

    Abstract : Artificial intelligence (AI) has over the past years become a hot topic for discussion in Sweden, as the technology presents exciting unique possibilities and challenges for the country and its citizens. Coverage of AI in Swedish news media presents imagined scenarios with both current and future AI that contribute to myths about how the technology is able to radically transform life, that spring out of a central digital sublime. READ MORE

  3. 2. A Foucauldian–Fairclaughian Discursive Analysis of the Social Construction of ICT for Environmentally Sustainable Urban Development – the Case of European Society

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Simon Elias Bibri; [2013]
    Keywords : ICT; sustainable urban development; environmental urban sustainability; energy efficiency technology; GHG emissions reductions; ICT4SUD; discourse; episteme; discursive construction; European society; information society; ICT industry; buildings; rebound effects; Foucauldian;

    Abstract : ICT has become so deeply embedded into the fabric of European society – in economic, political, and socio-cultural narratives, practices, and structures – that it has been constructed as holding tremendous untapped and inestimable potential for instigating and unleashing far-reaching societal transformation, addressing key societal challenges, and solving all societal problems. It has recently been seen, given its ubiquity, as a critical driver and powerful catalyst for sustainable urban development due to its potential to enable substantial energy savings and GHG emissions reductions in most urban sectors, especially buildings. READ MORE