{"id":1362,"date":"2018-09-01T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:39:39","slug":"publication-challenging-technological-utopianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/2018\/publication-challenging-technological-utopianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Technological Utopianism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Challenging Technological Utopianism\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>A special issue on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjc-online.ca\/index.php\/journal\/issue\/view\/171\/showToc\">Challenging Technological Utopianism<\/a>&#8221; in the Canadian Journal of Communication, Volume 43 No. 3, is just published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This issue is edited by ALiGN Media Lab Director <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/people\/merlyna\/\">Merlyna Lim<\/a>, and with contributions from: Bivens &amp; Hogue; <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/people\/kathy-dobson\/\">Dobson<\/a> &amp; Knezevic; Mitchell &amp; Lim; Knezevic, Pasho, &amp; Dobson. All of these contributors are affiliated with the communication program at Carleton University\u2019s School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, as graduate students and faculty members (as well as ALiGN researchers and affiliates). This special issue is in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the p<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">rogram and it offers notable insight to mark the occasion.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjc-online.ca\/index.php\/journal\/issue\/view\/171\/showToc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1206\" height=\"1628\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/CJC_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/CJC_cover.jpg 1206w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/CJC_cover-160x216.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/CJC_cover-240x324.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/CJC_cover-768x1037.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/CJC_cover-400x540.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/CJC_cover-360x486.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/CJC_cover-200x270.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1206px) 100vw, 1206px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p><strong>Table of contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Guest Editorial:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjc-online.ca\/index.php\/journal\/article\/view\/3393\/3539\">&#8220;Challenging Technological Utopianism&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Articles:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjc-online.ca\/index.php\/journal\/article\/view\/3378\">\u201c\u2019Ain\u2019t nobody got time for that!\u2019: Framing and Stereotyping in Legacy and Social Media\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjc-online.ca\/index.php\/journal\/article\/view\/3377\">&#8220;Too Crowded for Crowdsourced Journalism: Reddit, Portability, and Citizen Participation in the Syrian Crisis\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjc-online.ca\/index.php\/journal\/article\/view\/3376\">\u201cSeal Hunts in Canada and on Twitter: Exploring the Tensions between Indigenous Rights and Animal Rights with&nbsp;<span class=\"_5afx\"><span class=\"_58cl _5afz\" aria-label=\"hashtag\">#<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">Sealfie<\/span><\/span>&#8220;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjc-online.ca\/index.php\/journal\/article\/view\/3375\">\u201cProgramming Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: Infrastructural Failures in \u2018Feminist\u2019 Dating App Bumble\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjc-online.ca\/index.php\/journal\/article\/view\/3379\">\u201cUnveiling Saudi Feminism(s): Historicization, Heterogeneity, and Corporeality in the Women\u2019s Movements\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All articles in this special issue break away from the preoccupation with the role and impact of technology, prone to overlooking socio-political contexts, neglecting history, and decentring human agency. They do so by decentring technology and, instead, paying attention to socio-political and historical contexts, and centring human experiences and agency. Collectively, they offer multiple epistemological insights into the multifaceted relationship between technology and society. Utilizing diverse methods of analysis and informed by theories and knowledge from varied perspectives\u2014such as critical communication studies, humanities, feminist studies, and platform studies\u2014they generate nuanced narratives that highlight the heterogeneity and complexity of technology-society relations. Dealing with pressing social issues such as inequality, justice, sexism, racism, and poverty, these articles also reveal ontological relationships between technology and identities: gender, sexuality, class, and race. Together, these articles attempt to disturb the persistence of the binary opposition of the utopia-dystopia, optimist-pessimist, and positive-negative views of technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special issue on &#8220;Challenging Technological Utopianism&#8221; in the Canadian Journal of Communication, Volume 43 No. 3, is just published. This issue is edited by ALiGN Media Lab Director Merlyna Lim, and with contributions from: Bivens &amp; Hogue; Dobson &amp; Knezevic; Mitchell &amp; Lim; Knezevic, Pasho, &amp; Dobson. 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