Beyond the co-production of technology and society: The discursive treatment of technology with regard to near-term and long-term environmental goals

Mehmet Ali Üzelgün and João Rui Pereira

Technology in Society, 2020, vol. 61, issue C

Abstract: •Proposes a practical reasoning framework for the analysis of discourse on long-term policy problems.•Distinguishes near-term/concrete and long-term/abstract institutional contexts.•Examines deeds-consequences and means-ends relations in the interview discourse of low-carbon transition actors.•Technology is intertwined with society in the discourse concerning near-term institutional context.•Technology features as an independent external force in the broader institutional context of sustainability.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2020.101244

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