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Placing globalizing technologies: telemedicine and the making of difference

Placing globalizing technologies: telemedicine and the making of difference
Placing globalizing technologies: telemedicine and the making of difference
The development and proliferation of new information and communication technologies has generated some profound claims about the erasure of place. Whilst these claims have continued political and policy resonance, they are increasingly challenged in sociological debate, which emphasizes the persistence of the local. Following this lead, our article explores relations between technology and place. We develop our understanding through engagement with Science and Technology Studies, Actor Network Theory and geographical conceptualizations of place. Our argument is worked through a new empirical study of telemedicine, where new technologies are applied precisely to overcome place. Our analysis is that, on the contrary, empirical outcomes are legible only through the lens of place. This has important policy implications and broader implications for thinking about technology in contemporary debates about globalization.
globalization, information and communication technologies, midwifery, norway, place
0038-0385
232-249
Dyb, Kari
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Halford, Susan
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Dyb, Kari
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Halford, Susan
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Dyb, Kari and Halford, Susan (2009) Placing globalizing technologies: telemedicine and the making of difference. Sociology, 43 (2), 232-249. (doi:10.1177/0038038508101163).

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The development and proliferation of new information and communication technologies has generated some profound claims about the erasure of place. Whilst these claims have continued political and policy resonance, they are increasingly challenged in sociological debate, which emphasizes the persistence of the local. Following this lead, our article explores relations between technology and place. We develop our understanding through engagement with Science and Technology Studies, Actor Network Theory and geographical conceptualizations of place. Our argument is worked through a new empirical study of telemedicine, where new technologies are applied precisely to overcome place. Our analysis is that, on the contrary, empirical outcomes are legible only through the lens of place. This has important policy implications and broader implications for thinking about technology in contemporary debates about globalization.

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Published date: 2009
Keywords: globalization, information and communication technologies, midwifery, norway, place

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Local EPrints ID: 71034
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/71034
ISSN: 0038-0385
PURE UUID: 32e63b5a-c947-41b9-8cf0-be7db3b82cc9

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Date deposited: 14 Dec 2009
Last modified: 13 Mar 2024 20:17

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Author: Kari Dyb
Author: Susan Halford

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