Discerning Rejection of Technology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3447011 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sudhir Rama Murthy (0000-0001-5579-079X, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore), M Mani (0000-0001-5551-4832, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SAGE Open (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2158244013485248 |
| OpenAlex | W2137451654 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 32 |
Technology is innate to modern society and primarily embodies human intellect. It greatly influences development, societal functioning, and sociotechnical transitions. Rapid technological advancements, made possible with advancement in science, human ingenuity, and competitive markets, provide human society with affordable and unlimited choice. A society can be viewed, with an individual as the fundamental unit, or as a community, or state/nation. In one view, sustainability can be viewed through a matrix of societal, economic, and environmental configurations associated with the three societal levels. Technological advancement and complexity can either remain simple and amenable to the user or, as emerging in recent years, may daunt the user to keep away. While the phenomenon of technology adoption (acceptance) in society has been well appreciated, the increasingly characteristic phenomenon of technology rejection is yet to be understood and studied. Technology rejection is not merely a negation of its acceptance, and hence requires to be discerned carefully. Rejection also does not imply in its totality, but varies in terms of its kind and/or intensiveness. While rejection is discernable at all these three levels of society, this study remains focused at the level of the user (individual). It attempts to discern rejection of technology and discusses its distinctness from technology acceptance through an exhaustive literature study. The article initially discusses the technology-society nexus and provides a preliminary technology-user interface model leading to a detailed discussion into the determinants of technology rejection
Economics · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Ingenuity · Knowledge management · Neoclassical economics · Phenomenon · Social science · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Sustainability · Technological change · Technological determinism · Technology and Society · Computer Science · Engineering · Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
ICTs and the possibilities for leapfrogging by developing countries
Feature Fatigue
Innovation characteristics and innovation adoption-implementation
The cathedral and the bazaar
User Acceptance of Information Technology
A Theoretical Extension of the Technology Acceptance Model
User Acceptance of Computer Technology
The Social shaping of technology
When choice is demotivating
Information and communication technologies and the moral economy of the household
Consuming Technologies
Assessing community informatics
Social Exclusion and Information and Communication Technologies
The diffusion of innovations
Apart from technology
Co-evolution of technology and society
Introduction
Explaining Technological Change From the American System to Mass Production 1900-1932
The Machine at Work
Accountability in action
Towards a Sociology of Information Technology
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |