Media Tech

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             Some critics argue against technological determinism on the grounds that technology is 'neutral' or 'value-free' (neither good nor bad in itself) and that what counts is not the technology but the way in which we choose to use it. As the folk saying has it, 'A good worker doesn't blame the tools. Technology is presented as amoral. If we choose to use technologies such as literacy or computers for repressive rather than liberatory purposes, we have only ourselves to blame. The view that technology is 'ethically neutral' is sometimes referred to as an instrumental view of
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