The Coffee House Conversations

Socio-Technical Turtles All the Way Down

  • Andrew Wenn

Abstract

Through the use of dialogue and numerous photographs, this paper explores the socio- technical nature of the seemingly simple act of providing parking spaces for cars. Using empirical data, the analysis reveals a wide variety social and technical artefacts including batteries, clocks, computers, data, economics, engineering compromises, gatekeepers, humans, politics, procedures, standards and so on. All configured into a complex network.
As a result of the analysis, we encounter and examine ideas of infrastructure, and socio-technical networks. From this, we develop a simple graphical metaphor that enables us to better understand the heterogeneous nature of such structures.

Published
2006-11-01
How to Cite
Wenn A. (2006). The Coffee House Conversations: Socio-Technical Turtles All the Way Down. Journal of Law and Governance, 1(3), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.15209/jbsge.v1i3.81
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Articles