When Does Technology Become Political? Beyond Maximalism and Minimalism toward Interventionism

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Interventionism provides an alternative political framework to technological maximalism and minimalism by reopening seemingly settled technological decisions to public debate and responsibility. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

Seung-Il Park

doi:10.46407/kjci.2026.08.138.7

August 21, 2026한국언론정보학보

When Does Technology Become Political? Beyond Maximalism and Minimalism toward Interventionism

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To investigate when and how technological decisions become political questions and establish interventionism as an alternative framework beyond technological maximalism and minimalism.
Critically analyzed the deterministic assumptions shared by technological maximalism and technological minimalism.
Synthesized theoretical frameworks from Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, Donna Haraway, and Judith Butler to model interventionism across four core dimensions: target, moment, site, and subject.
Demonstrated that both maximalism and minimalism displace politics by presuming fixed technological essences and predetermined outcomes.
Established interventionism as a framework that reopens settled administrative and expert-driven technical decisions to public debate and accountability.
Structured interventionism not as an inevitable law of political emergence, but as a practical possibility for democratic engagement in the present.

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Theoretical analysis proposes interventionism to repoliticize closed technical decisions, highlighting four operational dimensions of technological politics.

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When Does Technology Become Political? Beyond Maximalism and Minimalism toward Interventionism

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