Textualizing technology: Knowledge, artifact, and practice

One common view of technology is as knowledge. “Defining technology as knowledge has important implications for how we comprehend technology in the making because it conceivably includes not only what exists, but what individuals believe is possible” ( Garud & Rappa, 1994, p. 346 ). If “all knowledge and all knowledge-claims are to be treated as being socially constructed” ( Pinch & Bijker, 1984, p. 401 ), the importance of discourse to such a view of technology is clear.