期刊名称：The African Journal of Information and Communication
印刷版ISSN：2077-7205
电子版ISSN：2077-7213
出版年度：2011
卷号：2010/2011
期号：11
页码：80-82
语种：English
出版社：University of the Witwatersrand
摘要：Reading a book on media technologies and development is always accompanied by some anxiety. Much has been written by scholars of different persuasions in this broad and interesting subject area, though sometimes without much intellectual rigour and philosophical depth. Much as this topic has been of intellectual curiosity and debate across the world, scholarship has often been characterised by a poverty of theory and simplistic interpretations of the relationship between society and technology. Social development has often naïvely been perceived as technologically driven, despite the equal or greater importance of factors related to human agency and social context. From the steam engine to electricity, the printing press to radio, technology has often erroneously been understood as the sole driving force for development and human progress.
