Can the technological mediation approach improve technology assessment? A critical view from ‘within’
| Autor: | Bas de Boer, Olga Kudina, Jonne Hoek |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Philosophy |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Ethics
Information Systems and Management ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION Strategy and Management 05 social sciences UT-Hybrid-D Normativity Technology assessment 06 humanities and the arts 050905 science studies 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Complement (complexity) Technological mediation Postphenomenology Management of Technology and Innovation Political science Ethical concerns Engineering ethics Current technology 060301 applied ethics 0509 other social sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of responsible innovation, 5(3), 299-315. Routledge |
| ISSN: | 2329-9037 2329-9460 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23299460.2018.1495029 |
| Popis: | The technological mediation approach aspires to complement current Technology Assessment (TA) practices. It aims to do so by addressing ethical concerns from ‘within’ human-technology relations leading to ethical Constructive Technology Assessment (eCTA), as articulated by Kiran, Asle H., Nelly Oudshoorn, and Peter-Paul Verbeek in their 2015 article. In this paper, we problematize this ambition. Firstly, we situate the technological mediation approach in the history of TA. Secondly, as a study into the normativity from ‘within’ human-technology relations, we reveal the phenomenological and existential origins of Verbeek's technological mediation approach. Thirdly, we show that there are two possible readings of this approach: a strong and a weak one. The weak reading can augment current TA practices but is eventually uncommitted to the idea of technological mediation. The strong reading defines a wholly new scope for our engagement with (emerging) technologies but is incompatible with existing TA approaches |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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