Context Matters: Promises and Concerns Regarding Nanotechnologies for Water and Food Applications
| Autor: | Carla Alvial Palavicino, Bart Walhout, Haico te Kulve, Kornelia Konrad |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Philosophy of science
De facto Sociology and Political Science Emerging technologies METIS-295052 Scientific discourse Philosophy Framing (social sciences) History and Philosophy of Science Management of Technology and Innovation Political science Engineering ethics Social science IR-84602 Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Philosophy of technology |
| Zdroj: | NanoEthics, 7(1), 17-27. Springer |
| ISSN: | 1871-4757 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11569-013-0168-4 |
| Popis: | Expectations in the form of promises and concerns contribute to the sense-making and valuation of emerging nanotechnologies. They add up to what we call ‘de facto assessments’ of novel socio-technical options. We explore how de facto assessments of nanotechnologies differ in the application domains of water and food by examining promises and concerns, and their relations in scientific discourse. We suggest that domain characteristics such as prior experiences with emerging technologies, specific discursive repertoires and user-producer relationships, play a key role in framing expectations of nanotechnology-enabled options. The article concludes by suggesting that domain-specific discourses may lead to undesirable lock-ins into specific de facto assessments pre-structuring anticipatory strategies of actors |
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