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E Tamir, R Davidson - Public Understanding of Science, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com

The good despot: Technology firms' interventions in the public sphere.

Stem education interventions

Davidson, Tamir

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We examine how the technology industry intervenes in social domains not directly tied to its products, services, and immediate commercial concerns. We intend to develop a framework for considering the ways technology and the technology industry reshape these domains in ways both intended and unintended. Drawing on sociologies of knowledge and technology and a set of 20 semi-structured interviews with technology workers and HR professionals working in the Israeli facilities of two large multi-national technology firms, we find evidence …

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