What are the social values that appear embedded in the technology?
⁃Freedom
⁃Adrenaline/Excitment
⁃Style
What are the social implications of its design or use? Is it gendered?
⁃More men
⁃Assumptions about longboard riders involve: Stoners, laid back, or adventurous.
⁃Implications of its design:
Is it systemic (meaning, a product of the ever-present “system” aka the man, the culture, ideologies)? Consider if it would “work” in another culture.
⁃Yes it is systemic, as it is an example of counter culture. It represents freedom from structured society. It could work in any other culture where there is a desire express freedom from such things. Also they go fast.
What does your technology say about the culture that created it?
⁃It says the rider is free from whatever daily struggles they experience in their culture’s society.