Abstract

RAMIREZ SANCHEZ, Sandra Lucía. Metáforas tecnológicas y emergencia de identidades. Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2007, vol.3, n.9, pp.33-52. ISSN 1850-0013.

This paper focuses on the relation between knowledge and the emergence of new identities. The starting point consists in developing a criticism to a certain kind of social constructivism which presupposes that society is constituted before the emergence, validation and acceptation of knowledge (social realism); in such a way that the relationship knowledge-society is asymmetric, at least at the level of explanation. This paper introduces the Actor-net Theory as a model to elaborate such a criticism. In a second step, it adds a criticism focused on two premises underlying ANT. Finally, by introducing some concepts from D. Haraway's proposal, it will explore some ways to articulate a model to understand the roll of technological representations in constructing new identities.

Keywords : Social constructivism; Social realism; Actor-net theory; Identity; Technological representations.

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