Bleak seeing some techno-determinists assume away responsibility by denying their own causal role in work they pursued proactively, pointing instead to the deterministic forces of History. 'It was always going to be, there was only one path,' they say, ignoring the options that didn't fit their eternally correct but never self-correcting view of the world.
Haven't read this fully but interesting that journalists tend to embrace technological determinism whereas journalism scholars seem to reject it. I wonder why that is? Maybe journalists are more amenable to structuralist ideas in that they need to explain complex changes with relatively straightforward narratives. Whereas for academics, technological determinism isn't easily falsifiable as a scientific position so not an attractive frame to start with? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2023.2188472
