{"id":877,"date":"2021-09-30T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T15:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=877"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T15:43:12","slug":"technology-chloe-whelan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/30\/technology-chloe-whelan\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology- Chloe Whelan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although the roots of the word focus on the nature of knowledge and its position in the establishment of hierarchies of knowledge, the rise of new technology after the seventeenth century transformed the definition of the word. Technology became the umbrella term to identify products that embodied knowledge related to industrial production. Tangible products of knowledge, like machines, soon took on the label of technology as they served as symbols of technological processes. In modern day, technology has come to be associated with several meanings, though each of its meanings relate to knowledge and science. Although the reading suggests that technological change and social change are synonymous with one another, studies on new technology have actually proved this to be inaccurate. Social media and search engines have proved to perpetuate social divides because their algorithms are designed to respond to dominant ideologies, which typically reflect hegemonic norms. Although technology has allowed for underrepresented minorities to become visible through media and has greatly expanded our methods of communication, harnessing the power of technology to heal social divides is still something we as a society need to figure out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the roots of the word focus on the nature of knowledge and its position in the establishment of hierarchies of knowledge, the rise of new technology after the seventeenth century transformed the definition of the word. Technology became the umbrella term to identify products that embodied knowledge related to industrial production. Tangible products of knowledge, like machines, soon took&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/30\/technology-chloe-whelan\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[811],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}