New Information Technologies as "Innovations": The Case of Turkey

Yıl 2001, Cilt: 4(2) Sayı: 8, 165 - 174, 07.07.2001

Halil Nalçaoğlu

Öz

This paper is organized around the critique of "expectations" and ''indications" associated with new information and communicaiton technologies (ICTs). The notions of "expectation"
and "indication" reflect a divided attitude endemic in the theory and research on ICTs. The social impact (of ICTs) research focuses on new technologies as entities inherent in the
structural properties of social systems while the so-called intercultural research locate ICTs as elements external to the social systems. The former approach loads the signifier of ICTs with expectations while the latter registers them as mere indicators of modThis paper is organized around the critique of "expectations" and ''indications" associated with new information and communicaiton technologies (ICTs). The notions of "expectation" and "indication" reflect a divided attitude endemic in the theory and research on ICTs. The social impact (of ICTs) research focuses on new technologies as entities inherent in the structural properties of social systems while the so-called intercultural research locate ICTs as elements external to the social systems. The former approach loads the signifier of ICTs with expectations while the latter registers them as mere indicators of modernity. Through this division, communication theory fails to see the content of communicaiton that the new technologies enable subjects of the non-Western countries. With reference to C. Wright Milis' ''controversial" argument regarding the use of history, the concludes with the proposition that there is nothing "new" about the new technologies for countries like Turkey as they might very well be considered "novelties'' for the advanced capitalist countries

New Information Technologies as "Innovations": The Case of Turkey

Öz

This paper is organized around the critique of "expectations" and ''indications" associated with new information and communicaiton technologies (ICTs). The notions of "expectation" and "indication" reflect a divided attitude endemic in the theory and research on ICTs. The social impact (of ICTs) research focuses on new technologies as entities inherent in the structural properties of social systems while the so-called intercultural research locate ICTs as elements external to the social systems. The former approach loads the signifier of ICTs with expectations while the latter registers them as mere indicators of modThis paper is organized around the critique of "expectations" and ''indications" associated with new information and communicaiton technologies (ICTs). The notions of "expectation" and "indication" reflect a divided attitude endemic in the theory and research on ICTs. The social impact (of ICTs) research focuses on new technologies as entities inherent in the structural properties of social systems while the so-called intercultural research locate ICTs as elements external to the social systems. The former approach loads the signifier of ICTs with expectations while the latter registers them as mere indicators of modernity. Through this division, communication theory fails to see the content of communicaiton that the new technologies enable subjects of the non-Western countries. With reference to C. Wright Milis' ''controversial" argument regarding the use of history, the concludes with the proposition that there is nothing "new" about the new technologies for countries like Turkey as they might very well be considered "novelties'' for the advanced capitalist countries

Anahtar Kelimeler

Innovations, information technologies, "expectations" and

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