Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| Disautomated Realities in South Africa: Loadshedding, Poultry Death, and the Promises of Failure

In an increasingly automated world, what does it looks like when sociotechnical change occurs as infrastructural failure? Since 2007, South Africa’s ability to provide energy for its people has dramatically deteriorated. Scheduled power cuts, or “loadshedding,” has become a norm in daily life. Beca...

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Published in:International Journal of Communication
Main Author: Ziyaad Bhorat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: USC Annenberg Press 2023-12-01
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Online Access:https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21836