TY - CONF

T1 - Dissection of dependency a cross disciplinary review

AU - Chughtai, Hameed

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - Life in the modern societies, principally in the Western world, has been demystified. This demystification process has caused the social structures like technology, to lose some of the charm they had during the early Industrialisation period. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become integral parts of our identity in the context of organizational and personal life; the dependence on technology blurs the line between real and virtual worlds. This paper attempts to bridge the gap in understanding our dependence on modern technology. An attempt has been made to dissect the human-technology dependency to find out how technology is interpreted, it's meaning in the modern world, and what are the working mechanisms that are feeding this dependency as it grows with the growth of ICTs. The paper concludes that there is neither a single source of dependency nor a root cause. Instead the answer lies deep within the mesh of social patterns and structure and how we interact with them. The dependency in ques-tion is much more a function of the properties people attribute to ICTs than of what an ICT can or cannot actually be made to do.

AB - Life in the modern societies, principally in the Western world, has been demystified. This demystification process has caused the social structures like technology, to lose some of the charm they had during the early Industrialisation period. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become integral parts of our identity in the context of organizational and personal life; the dependence on technology blurs the line between real and virtual worlds. This paper attempts to bridge the gap in understanding our dependence on modern technology. An attempt has been made to dissect the human-technology dependency to find out how technology is interpreted, it's meaning in the modern world, and what are the working mechanisms that are feeding this dependency as it grows with the growth of ICTs. The paper concludes that there is neither a single source of dependency nor a root cause. Instead the answer lies deep within the mesh of social patterns and structure and how we interact with them. The dependency in ques-tion is much more a function of the properties people attribute to ICTs than of what an ICT can or cannot actually be made to do.

KW - Edependency

KW - Epistemology

KW - Hermeneutics

KW - Philosophy of technology

KW - Social theory

KW - Structuration

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84926031103&partnerID=8YFLogxK

M3 - Conference paper

AN - SCOPUS:84926031103

SP - 1

EP - 14

T2 - 24th Bled eConference - eFuture: Creating Solutions for the Individual, Organisations and Society

Y2 - 12 June 2011 through 15 June 2011

ER -