Pub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.1007/s11569-021-00389-5
J. Söderberg, Maxigas
{"title":"The Three Pillars of Functional Autonomy of Hackers","authors":"J. Söderberg, Maxigas","doi":"10.1007/s11569-021-00389-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-021-00389-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18802,"journal":{"name":"Nanoethics","volume":"15 1","pages":"43 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11569-021-00389-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43018315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.1007/s11569-021-00384-w
Jamie Woodcock
{"title":"Towards a Digital Workerism: Workers’ Inquiry, Methods, and Technologies","authors":"Jamie Woodcock","doi":"10.1007/s11569-021-00384-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-021-00384-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18802,"journal":{"name":"Nanoethics","volume":"15 1","pages":"87 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11569-021-00384-w","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52861523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-13DOI: 10.1007/s11569-020-00382-4
J. Schuijer, J. Broerse, F. Kupper
{"title":"Citizen Science Fiction: The Potential of Situated Speculative Prototyping for Public Engagement on Emerging Technologies","authors":"J. Schuijer, J. Broerse, F. Kupper","doi":"10.1007/s11569-020-00382-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-020-00382-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18802,"journal":{"name":"Nanoethics","volume":"15 1","pages":"1 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11569-020-00382-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41440562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s11569-020-00381-5
Beate Ochsner, Markus Spöhrer, Robert Stock
Against the backdrop of an aging world population increasingly affected by a diverse range of abilities and disabilities as well as the rise of ubiquitous computing and digital app cultures, this paper questions how mobile technologies mediate between heterogeneous environments and sensing beings. To approach the current technological manufacturing of the senses, two lines of thought are of importance: First, there is a need to critically reflect upon the concept of assistive technologies (AT) as artifacts providing tangible solutions for a specific disability. Second, the conventional distinction between user and environment requires a differentiated consideration. This contribution will first review James Gibson’s concept of “affordances” and modify this approach by introducing theories and methods of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Actor-Network Theory (ANT). Then, we present two case studies where we explore the relations between recent “assistive” app technologies and human sensory perception. As hearing and seeing are key in this regard, we concentrate on two specific media technologies: ReSound LINX2, a hearing aid which allows for direct connect (via Bluetooth) with iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, and Camassia, an IOS app for sonic wayfinding for blind people. We emphasize the significance of dis-/abling practices for manufacturing novel forms of hearing and seeing and drawing on sources like promotional materials by manufacturers, ads, or user testimonials and reviews. Our analysis is interested in the reciprocal relationships between users and their socio-technical and media environments. By and large, this contribution will provide crucial insights into the contemporary entanglement of algorithm-driven technologies, daily practices, and sensing subjects: the production of techno-sensory arrangements.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2021-09-06DOI: 10.1007/s11569-021-00396-6
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
The hype surrounding the emergence of nanotechnology proved extremely effective to raise public attention and controversies in the early 2000s. A proactive attitude prevailed resulting in the integration of social scientists upstream at the research level, research programs on Ethical, Legal and Societal Impacts (ELSI), and various public engagement initiatives such as nanojury and citizen conferences. Twenty years later, what happened to the promises of SHS integration and public engagement in nanotechnology? Was it part of the hype, one of the many promises made by the champions of nanotechnology initiatives that never materialized? As a contribution to this broad question, this paper focuses on public engagement initiatives in France and ventures some general reflections on their fate. I will first report, from an insider's perspective, the public debates conducted by a civil society organization VivAgora, in the national context of fierce controversies (2005-2009). Then I will describe the permanent forum NanoRESP opened in 2013 when nano controversies waned out. On the basis of this case study, I will argue that the STS ideal of co-production of science and society gradually gave way to a more modest co-learning process between stakeholders in the 2010s.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-26DOI: 10.1007/s11569-020-00379-z
C. Nathan
{"title":"Current Debates About the Ethics of New Technology","authors":"C. Nathan","doi":"10.1007/s11569-020-00379-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-020-00379-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18802,"journal":{"name":"Nanoethics","volume":"14 1","pages":"241 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11569-020-00379-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44089369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-25DOI: 10.1007/s11569-020-00374-4
M. Kochupillai, C. Lütge, Franziska Poszler
{"title":"Programming Away Human Rights and Responsibilities? “The Moral Machine Experiment” and the Need for a More “Humane” AV Future","authors":"M. Kochupillai, C. Lütge, Franziska Poszler","doi":"10.1007/s11569-020-00374-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-020-00374-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18802,"journal":{"name":"Nanoethics","volume":"14 1","pages":"285 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11569-020-00374-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45485697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}