Technology as Materialized Action and Its Ambivalences

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 296-312

  Schraube, Ernst ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

agency; ambivalence of technology; Critical Psychology; materiality; materialized action; objectification; science and technology studies; social psychology of technology; subjectivity; technological mediation

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249137010     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354309103543     Document Type: Article

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