Modern theories of communities of practice, or CoPs, describe and explain how people and their social networks accomplish goals in practice, i.e., in the act of doing; not how the work is thought to be done, but how it actually occurs. Especially important are the works of Etienne Wenger. His and others’ works focus almost exclusively on human and social factors, and do not focus on the role of technology because they believe that technology does not have agentive power and that it therefore cannot participate in practice. These scholars dismiss or deliberately ignore technology as merely a tool of participants because they believe that participation is a conscious decision. However, recent work in the philosophy of technology has shown how technology might indeed be thought of as having agency, and this idea must be reconciled with traditional community of practice literature and theory in order for our understanding to continue to grow. This thesis begins that reconciliation.