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Is software political? (www.jstor.org)

submitted 1 month ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/opensource@programming.dev

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In this paper the author highlights how both engineers and social scientists misinterpret the relationship between technology and society. In particular he attacks the narrative, widespread among engineers, that technological artifacts, such as software, have no political properties in themselves and that function or efficiency are the only drivers of technological design and implementation.

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[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

None of what you mentioned is actually about politics, it's just a list of outrage-bait