You will have to conduct research and write an essay that analyzes a journalistic treatment of technology and contrasts that that approach with the concept of sociotechnical research. Your backgroup readings will help direct you to outlining what that may include. A common definition of such research approaches includes "A research outlook that highlights the interdependence and inextricable linkages between people (sociological systems) and ICTs (technological systems), underscores the co-evolution of these systems, and emphasizes that both systems need to be jointly optimized in order to produce positive practical outcomes." (from: Ruhl, U. (2018). Towards an interdisciplinary Socio-Technical Definition of Virtual Communities, in Encyclopedia of Information Science & Technology, 4th ed. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. For other definitions, consider these sources:
You can search for terms such as infrastructure, datafication, surveillance, capitalism, technological determinism, social determinism, social constructionism.
Read and cite the article you are addressing.
Conduct research hoping to find articles or evidence that allows you to distinguish between socio-technical research perspectives and other kinds of discourse. The following databases may offer you insights that will be useful for your persuasive arguments:
Find some images if appropriate to augment your writing from the tab that contains "Finding & Using Images." Make sure that you cite the image.
The following sources or databases cover the subject areas noted or index academic/scholarly literature across a multidisciplinary span and will take you into several disciplines where you can see how different social scientists and other scholars explore tools, technology, context and action. Some of these databases can be searched together in one search, such as Academic Search Complete, Education Source, Communications Abstracts and may include links within the database to the content in HTML or PDF options; otherwise use the Get it at UC" icon. Many of them contain Annotated Bibliographies upon which you can model yours.
There are several eBook resources that may contain useful entries or chapters and you are encouraged to search that content: