Feedback

Faculté de Droit, de Science Politique et de Criminologie
Faculté de Droit, de Science Politique et de Criminologie
MASTER THESIS
VIEW 23 | DOWNLOAD 3

The Cocklear Implant as a Backbone Technology - A study of Testimonies

Download
Böttcher, Cyrielle ULiège
Promotor(s) : Melard, François ULiège
Academic year : 2020-2021 • Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/12682
Details
Title : The Cocklear Implant as a Backbone Technology - A study of Testimonies
Translated title : [fr] L'implant cochléaire comme une technologie pivot cosmopolitique. Une étude de témoignages
Author : Böttcher, Cyrielle ULiège
Advisor(s) : Melard, François ULiège
Language : English
Number of pages : 81
Keywords : [en] Biosociality
[en] Cochlear implant
[en] Cosmopolitics
[en] STS
[en] Deaf culture
[en] Cosmoplotical event
Discipline(s) : Law, criminology & political science > Political science, public administration & international relations
Target public : Student
General public
Institution(s) : Université de Liège, Liège, Belgique
Degree: Master en sciences politiques, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée en science, technologie et société (STS)
Faculty: Master thesis of the Faculté de Droit, de Science Politique et de Criminologie

Abstract

[en] Although it has been on the market for several decades, researchers have not yet depleted the
stock of public and academic controversies about the cochlear implant. Thanks to the
spontaneous testimonials delivered on the internet and the social networks, one learns that
beyond the physical effects it can provoke, the implantation of a "bionic ear" also have
significant psychological and social repercussions. Indeed, by studying these digital
testimonies entrusted by those concerned with this technological tool, this thesis aims at
understanding how does the cochlear implant contrib ute to the creation via the Internet of
communities aimed at supporting deaf patients. Conducted from a Science and Technology
Studies perspective, the discourse analysis enables to examine the arguments of the groups
formed around the cochlear implant. By doing so, this study clearly demonstrates that
cochlear implantation represents an extremely disturbing cosmopolitical event, that is, an
event that unbuttons the existence and acts as a pivot that projects individuals onto new life
trajectories. The dist urbances suffered are incommensurable. Originally grouped under the
aegis of the "deaf hard of hearing", most people affected by the diverse effects of the implant
are experiencing an unanticipated change of identity. Via the Internet, they are regrouping
under the new titles of "deaf implanted" or "resistant", each with its own rhetoric. These
observations lead to the conclusion that, by its very existence, the cochlear implant creates a
schism between the individuals while being at the origin of the emerg ence of unprecedented
communities based on modified identities.


File(s)

Document(s)

File
Access THESIS Cyrielle BOTTCHER.pdf
Description:
Size: 487.63 kB
Format: Adobe PDF

Author

  • Böttcher, Cyrielle ULiège Université de Liège > Master en sc. pol., à fin. (STS) OUT

Promotor(s)

  • Total number of views 23
  • Total number of downloads 3










All documents available on MatheO are protected by copyright and subject to the usual rules for fair use.
The University of Liège does not guarantee the scientific quality of these students' works or the accuracy of all the information they contain.