Mapping technology-harm relations: From ambient harms to zemiosis
| Autor: | Mark A Wood |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. 18:509-526 |
| ISSN: | 1741-6604 1741-6590 |
| Popis: | This article develops a new approach to analysing the technology-harm nexus. The approach distinguishes between different technology-harm relations: relations with technology that are harmful by virtue of what they contribute to bringing about. In this article, I focus on categorizing generative harm relations: relations with technology that are harmful by virtue of what they do to actors. Drawing together insights from zemiology, moral philosophy, postphenomenology, Stiegler’s technophenomenology, and Latour’s actor-network theory, I distinguish six generative harm relations: ambient harms, alterity harms, exclusion harms, interface harms, harm translation and zemiosis. Distinguishing between these generative harm relations helps us delineate the techno-sociality of a range of social harms, from gun violence and digital coercive control, to forms of oppression, inequality and immiseration (re)produced by algorithms. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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