ABSTRACT

Researchers’ communication activities are influenced by motivations and abilities, but also by specific topics and artefacts of research. This is seldom acknowledged in efforts to embed responsible research and innovation in organizations through mechanisms that promote communication as synergistic activities. Nor is it sufficiently acknowledged in the literature on researchers’ attitudes to communication. To open up a discussion on this issue, we draw on recent literature on affordances to explore how a certain ‘prop’ influences outcomes of research communication in the NTNU Cyborg initiative, which integrates biological neural cultures with electronic circuitry and robotics to build a cybernetic organism. The case illustrates the wide range of affordances – both enabling and constraining features – that a particular object of communication may have in different settings, indicating the need for artefact-specific approaches to researchers’ attitudes to communication and to the institutionalization of RRI.

摘要

研究人员的交流活动受动机和能力的影响，但也受特定主题和研究成果的影响。在通过促进沟通作为协同活动的机制将负责任的研究和创新嵌入组织的努力中，这一点很少得到承认。在研究人员对交流的态度的文献中也没有得到充分承认。为了展开对这个问题的讨论，我们利用最近关于可供性的文献来探索某个“道具”如何影响 NTNU Cyborg 计划中研究交流的结果，该计划将生物神经文化与电子电路和机器人技术相结合，以构建控制论有机体.