Technologies or innovations for example we can say wheel, computer, mobile, bicycle etc. All of these shapes and organize the world as well as our lives. To illustrate the SCOT analysis, we can use the case of the social construction of the safety bicycle in the late nineteenth century (Wiebe Bijker,1987). Major changes have taken place over the last decade in the world of bicycles. These changes point to short comings in Pinch and Bijker’s analytical framework. In particular, SCOT looks closely into the workings of technology, its account of society doesn't allow a sufficiently complex understanding of exactly how it is that social features come to be built into technological artifact (Wiebe Bijker,1987). The theory of social construction of technology (SCOT), also known as technological determinism, applies to how we are able to interpret the bicycle from both a historical and modern standpoint. The “interpretative flexibility” inherent within this theory stands for a group-dependent lens of analysis (Lohan, M.2000). Bijker touches specifically on the example of the air tire and how the advancement of this element was viewed by various users—the racers were concerned about speed, others appreciated its convenience and stability while producers were focused on economic outcomes. “Relevant social groups do not simply see different aspects of one artifact. The meaning given by a relevant social group actually constitutes the artefacts” (Brown.edu, 2018).
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