Unintended by Design: On the Political Uses of “Unintended Consequences”

IF 1 Q3 SOCIAL ISSUES Engaging Science Technology and Society Pub Date : 2020-08-01 DOI:10.17351/ests2020.497
Nassim Parvin, A. Pollock
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This paper revisits the term “unintended consequences,” drawing upon an illustrative vignette to show how it is used to dismiss vital ethical and political concerns. Tracing the term to its original introduction by Robert Merton and building on feminist technoscience analyses, we uncover and rethink its widespread usage in popular and scholarly discourses and practices of technology design.
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本文重新审视了“意外后果”一词,利用一个说明性的小插曲来展示它是如何被用来消除重要的道德和政治问题的。追溯罗伯特·默顿(Robert Merton)对该术语的最初介绍,并在女权主义技术科学分析的基础上,我们发现并重新思考了它在流行和学术话语以及技术设计实践中的广泛使用。
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