Comments on: Big Day at DAC 2009 http://nickm.com/post/2009/12/big-day-at-dac-2009/ Nick Montfort Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:05:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jesper Juul http://nickm.com/post/2009/12/big-day-at-dac-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1119 Jesper Juul Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:51:35 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=595#comment-1119 <p>And now I've read the paper and realize that you are discussing the question in much more detail than I have.</p> And now I’ve read the paper and realize that you are discussing the question in much more detail than I have.

]]> By: Jesper Juul http://nickm.com/post/2009/12/big-day-at-dac-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1118 Jesper Juul Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:04:23 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=595#comment-1118 <p>I think we've discussed this before, but I don't think you need to defend yourself from criticisms of "technological determinism".</p> <p>In my experience, it is a criticism that quite often means that the speaker has his/her own determinism (say cultural, social, political, economical), that they don't want challenged by having to consider factors outside the field in which they were trained.</p> <p>In other words, charges of determinism often serves the function of limiting the questions that can be asked. Don't worry about it!</p> I think we’ve discussed this before, but I don’t think you need to defend yourself from criticisms of “technological determinism”.

In my experience, it is a criticism that quite often means that the speaker has his/her own determinism (say cultural, social, political, economical), that they don’t want challenged by having to consider factors outside the field in which they were trained.

In other words, charges of determinism often serves the function of limiting the questions that can be asked. Don’t worry about it!

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