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Quantum Technologies: a Hermeneutic Technology Assessment Approach NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Luca M. Possati
This paper develops a hermeneutic technology assessment of quantum technologies. It offers a “vision assessment” of quantum technologies that can eventually lead to socio-ethical analysis. Section 2 describes this methodological approach and in particular the concept of the hermeneutic circle applied to technology. Section 3 gives a generic overview of quantum technologies and their impacts. Sections 4
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Testing Reflexive Practitioner Dialogues: Capacities for Socio-technical Integration in Meditation Research NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Mareike Smolka, Erik Fisher
To put frameworks of Responsible Innovation and Responsible Research and Innovation (R(R)I) into practice, engagement methods have been developed to study and enhance technoscientific experts’ capacities to reflexively address value considerations in their work. These methods commonly rely on engagement between technoscientific experts and social scholars, which makes them vulnerable to structural
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Reflections on Perspectives of Transhumanism, Buddhist Transhumanism, and Buddhist Modernism on the Self NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Vera Borrmann
A claim made by Buddhist or Buddhism-affine scholars such as Michael LaTorra and James Hughes is that transhumanism, neuroscience, and the teachings of Buddhism are compatible because they aim to alleviate suffering and pain and attain a stable state of happiness. This claim can be challenged. At first glance, the approach seems valid, because since the 1980s there have been dialogues and scientific
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Does It Make Sense to Professionalize and Institutionalize Citizen Science? NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Dana Mahr
In this article, I share an anecdote about citizen science and use it to reflect on this rapidly growing field of scientific activity, its funding, and its governance. The paper focuses particularly on the epistemic and social challenges that accompany increasing demands for professionalization and institutionalization of the Citizen Sciences.
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Rethinking the Goals and Values of Nanoart During the War: an Artists’ Statement NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Yana Suchikova, Serhii Kovachov
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Implicit Values in the Recent Carbon Nanotube Debate NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Nicholas Surber, Rickard Arvidsson, Karl de Fine Licht, Karl Palmås
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A Framework for Future-Oriented Assessment of Converging Technologies at National Level NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Sepehr Ghazinoory, Mehdi Fatemi, Fatemeh Saghafi, Abbas Ali Ahmadian, Shiva Tatina
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Nano-hydroxyapatite Before the Science Court NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Frederick C. Klaessig
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The Ethics of Technology: How Can Indigenous Thought Contribute? NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 John Weckert, Rogelio Bayod
The ethics of technology is not as effective as it should. Despite decades of ethical discussion, development and use of new technologies continues apace without much regard to those discussions. Economic and other forces are too powerful. More focus needs to be placed on the values that underpin social attitudes to technology. By seriously looking at Indigenous thought and comparing it with the typical
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Modifying the Environment or Human Nature? What is the Right Choice for Space Travel and Mars Colonisation? NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Maurizio Balistreri, Steven Umbrello
As space travel and intentions to colonise other planets are becoming the norm in public debate and scholarship, we must also confront the technical and survival challenges that emerge from these hostile environments. This paper aims to evaluate the various arguments proposed to meet the challenges of human space travel and extraterrestrial planetary colonisation. In particular, two primary solutions
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The Ethical Status of Germline Gene Editing in Future Space Missions: The Special Case of Positive Selection on Earth for Future Space Missions NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Konrad Szocik
There are good theoretical rationales for considering germline gene editing (GGE) as a recommended and perhaps even necessary procedure for future long-term human space missions. This paper examines the arguments for applying GGE in a hypothetical future scenario where future parents living on Earth make decisions about applying GGE to their future children with the goal of allowing them to participate
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Talking About Responsible Quantum: “Awareness Is the Absolute Minimum that … We Need to Do” NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Tara Roberson
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Digital Sequence Information and the Access and Benefit-Sharing Obligation of the Convention on Biological Diversity NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Frank Irikefe Akpoviri, Syarul Nataqain Baharum, Zinatul Ashiqin Zainol
With the advent of synthetic biology, scientists are increasingly relying on digital sequence information, instead of physical genetic resources. This article examines the potential impact of this shift on the access and benefit-sharing (ABS) regime of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Nagoya Protocol. These treaties require benefit-sharing with the owners of genetic resources. However
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Ghost of Revolution NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Nikita Lin
A modest piece of experimental writing, Ghost of Revolution is intended as a methodological tool to question the form and function (tactics) of self-critique at the interface between art and science. Half fictional, half real, the “story” revolves around a speculative, biological connection between a mother and her son in an age of genetic manipulation. The speculation adopts a mode of writing that
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Toward a More Expansive Political Philosophy of Technology NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Glen Miller
Leo Strauss’s political philosophy spurs recognition that (i) an adequate political philosophy of technology must be able to integrate domestic and geopolitical ideals that are often expressed separately; (ii) technologies alter the formation of publics around issues, which depend less on the traditional overlap between people and place, so the political concept of sovereignty must be reconsidered;
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Tractatus Politico-Technologicus as Common Cause NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Paul Diduch
Carl Mitcham makes the case for Leo Strauss’s importance as a theorist of technology whose work complements thinkers like Bernard Stiegler and others in philosophy of technology and science and technology studies. His main argument is that a political philosophy of technology follows from the core elements of Strauss’s unique analysis of modernity. Importantly, he adapts Strauss’s “cave within a cave”
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Political Philosophy of Technology: After Leo Strauss (A Question of Sovereignty) NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Carl Mitcham
Bernard Stiegler’s contributions to political philosophy in the presence of technology are honored and complemented by imagining an encounter with the thought of Leo Strauss. The concept of sovereignty is taken as pivotal. Notions of sovereignty find expression not only in nation state politics but also in engineering and technology. Pierre Manent calls attention to further roots in Christian theology
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For Dialogue Between Strauss and Stiegler NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Yuk Hui
Any encounter between Strauss and Stiegler requires critical elucidation of the notions of polis and nomos as central to classical political philosophy and the ways in which both have been transformed by technology. We must ask with Stiegler what kind of new geopolitical configuration is possible in our time, in the digital age, and in the Anthropocene.
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Historical Roots and Seminal Papers of Quantum Technology 2.0 NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Thomas Scheidsteger, Robin Haunschild, Christoph Ettl
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Moral Equivalence in the Metaverse NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Alexei Grinbaum, Laurynas Adomaitis
Are digital subjects in virtual reality morally equivalent to human subjects? We divide this problem into two questions bearing, respectively, on cognitive and emotional equivalence. Typically, cognitive equivalence does not hold due to the lack of substantialist indistinguishability, but emotional equivalence applies: digital subjects endowed with face or language elicit emotional responses on a par
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Ethics and Genomic Editing Using the Crispr-Cas9 Technique: Challenges and Conflicts NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-12 David Lorenzo, Montse Esquerda, Francesc Palau, Francisco J. Cambra, Grup Investigació en Bioética
The field of genetics has seen major advances in recent decades, particularly in research, prevention and diagnosis. One of the most recent developments, the genomic editing technique Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9, has opened the possibility for genetic therapies through genome modification. The technique marks an improvement on previous procedures but poses
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Cyborg Encounters: Three Art-Science Interactions NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Ayşe Melis Okay, Burak Taşdizen, Charles John McKinnon Bell, Beyza Dilem Topdal, Melike Şahinol
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Playing God: Symbolic Arguments Against Technology NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Massimiliano Simons
In ethical reflections on new technologies, a specific type of argument often pops up, which criticizes scientists for “playing God” with these new technological possibilities. The first part of this article is an examination of how these arguments have been interpreted in the literature. Subsequently, this article aims to reinterpret these arguments as symbolic arguments: they are grounded not so
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“VULVA STUDY. hidden but not undiscovered” in Conversation with “Manufacturing the Vulva” NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-20 Merve Şahinol, Melike Şahinol
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Imitating the Human. New Human–Machine Interactions in Social Robots NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Johanna Seifert, Orsolya Friedrich, Sebastian Schleidgen
Social robots are designed to perform intelligent, emotional, and autonomous behavior in order to establish intimate relationships with humans, for instance, in the context of elderly care. However, the imitation of qualities usually assumed to be necessary for human reciprocal interaction may impact our understanding of social interaction. Against this background, we compare the technical operations
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Circles of Care for Safety: A Care Ethics Approach to Safe-by-Design NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Lieke Baas, Suzanne Metselaar, Pim Klaassen
Safe-by-Design is an approach to engineering that aims to integrate the value of safety in the design and development of new technologies. It does so by integrating knowledge of potential dangers in the design process and developing methods to design undesirable effects out of the innovation. Recent discussions have highlighted several challenges in conceptualizing safety and integrating the value
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The Pivotal Function of Non-human Actors in the Acceptability of the Body Technology, Actibelt®: a Reconstruction Based on Actor-Network-Theory NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Mandy Scheermesser
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Techno-bio-politics. On Interfacing Life with and Through Technology NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Benjamin Lipp, Sabine Maasen
Technology takes an unprecedented position in contemporary society. In particular, it has become part and parcel of governmental attempts to manufacture life in new ways. Such ideas concerning the (self-)governance of life organize around the same contention: that technology and life are, in fact, highly interconnectable. This is surprising because if one enters the sites of techno-scientific experimentation
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Performance in the Workplace: a Critical Evaluation of Cognitive Enhancement NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Cengiz Acarturk, Baris Mucen
The popular debates about the future organization of work through artificial intelligence technologies focus on the replacement of human beings by novel technologies. In this essay, we oppose this statement by closely following what has been developed as AI technologies and analyzing how they work, specifically focusing on research that may impact work organizations. We develop this argument by showing
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Manufacturing Life Through Science and Art Interaction: Güneş-Helen Isitan’s Hybridities: Almost Other NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Emre Sünter
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We Have Always Been Cyborgs. Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Aura Elena Schussler
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Enhancement Technologies and the Politics of Life NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Diego Compagna,Melike Şahinol
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Quantum Technologies and Society: Towards a Different Spin NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Christopher Coenen, Alexei Grinbaum, Armin Grunwald, Colin Milburn, Pieter Vermaas
Due primarily to technological advances over the last decade, quantum research has become a key priority area for science and technology policy all over the world. With this manifesto, we wish to prevent quantum technology from running into fiascos of implementation at the interface of science and society. To this end, we identify key stumbling blocks and propose recommendations.
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Prototyping Criptical Neural Engineering — Tentatively Cripping Neural Engineering’s Cultural Practices for Cyborg Survival and Flourishing NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Romy Rasper
This Discussion Note calls for attention to the cultural practices of Neural Engineering as part of the life sciences as practices and technologies of manufacturing life. Through focusing on Disability, Ableism, and especially Technoableism within the field, I point out instances of onto-epistemological violence, which influence the likelihood of survival of disabled people individually and as a (cultural
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Correction to: Does Facebook Violate Its Users’ Basic Human Rights? NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Alexander Sieber
1. In the ‘The New Normal’ section, third paragraph, sentence three reads: “Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) and self-determination are universal human rights that mean little to Facebook consumers since the psychological cost is unknown and residual to the social network experience.” The sentence should read: “Self-determination is a universal human right that mean little to Facebook consumers
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“Manufacturing Life” in Real Work Processes? New Manufacturing Environments with Micro- and Nanorobotics NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-25 António Brandão Moniz, Bettina-Johanna Krings
The convergence of nano-, bio-, information, and cognitive sciences and technologies (NBIC) is advancing continuously in many societal spheres. This also applies to the manufacturing sector, where technological transformations in robotics push the boundaries of human–machine interaction (HMI). Here, current technological advances in micro- and nanomanufacturing are accompanied by new socio-economic
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Responsibility through Anticipation? The ‘Future Talk’ and the Quest for Plausibility in the Governance of Emerging Technologies NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-08 Urueña, Sergio
In anticipatory governance (AG) and responsible innovation (RI), anticipation is a key theoretical and practical dimension for promoting a more responsible governance of new and emerging sciences and technologies. Yet, anticipation has been subjected to a range of criticisms, such that many now see it as unnecessary for AG and RI. According to Alfred Nordmann, practices engaging with ‘the future’,
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Temporarily Abled: How Exoskeleton Experience Reinvents Bodies in Spinal Cord Injury and Cerebrovascular Accidents NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Denisa Butnaru
Recent achievements in rehabilitative robotics modify essential parameters of the human body, such as motility. Exoskeletons used for persons with neurological impairments like spinal cord injury and stroke enter this category by rehabilitating and assisting damaged motor patterns, achievements thought impossible until not long ago. Unlike other examples leading to similar dysfunctions, such as diseases
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Precaution as a Risk in Data Gaps and Sustainable Nanotechnology Decision Support Systems: a Case Study of Nano-Enabled Textiles Production NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Irini Furxhi, Finbarr Murphy, Craig A. Poland, Martin Cunneen, Martin Mullins
In light of the potential long-term societal and economic benefits of novel nano-enabled products, there is an evident need for research and development to focus on closing the gap in nano-materials (NMs) safety. Concurrent reflection on the impact of decision-making tools, which may lack the capability to assist sophisticated judgements around the risks and benefits of the introduction of novel products
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Responsible Innovation Definitions, Practices, and Motivations from Nanotechnology Researchers in Food and Agriculture NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-18 Kokotovich, Adam E., Kuzma, Jennifer, Cummings, Christopher L., Grieger, Khara
The growth of responsible innovation (RI) scholarship has been mirrored by a proliferation of RI definitions and practices, as well as a recognition of the importance of context for RI. This study investigates how researchers in the field of nanotechnology for food and agriculture (nano-agrifoods) define and practice RI, as well as what motivations they see for pursuing RI. We conducted 20 semi-structured
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How Can I Contribute? Citizen Engagement in the Development of Nanotechnology for Health NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-18 Jansma, Sikke R., Dijkstra, Anne M., de Jong, Menno D. T.
Scholars and policymakers have increasingly advocated to engage citizens more substantially in the development of science and technology. However, to a large extent it has remained unknown how citizens can contribute to technology development. In this study, we systematically characterized citizens’ contributions in the development of nanotechnology for health. We explored to which technology aspects
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Techno-species in the Becoming Towards a Relational Ontology of Multi-species Assemblages (ROMA) NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Kubes, Tanja, Reinhardt, Thomas
Robots equipped with artificial intelligence pose a huge challenge to traditional ontological differentiations between the spheres of the human and the non-human. Drawing mainly from neo-animistic and perspectivist approaches in anthropology and science and technology studies, the paper explores the potential of new forms of interconnectedness and rhizomatic entanglements between humans and a world
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Thoughts Unlocked by Technology—a Survey in Germany About Brain-Computer Interfaces NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Schmid, J. R., Friedrich, O., Kessner, S., Jox, R. J.
A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a rapidly evolving neurotechnology connecting the human brain with a computer. In its classic form, brain activity is recorded and used to control external devices like protheses or wheelchairs. Thus, BCI users act with the power of their thoughts. While the initial development has focused on medical uses of BCIs, non-medical applications have recently been gaining
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From Nano Backlash to Public Indifference: Some Reflections on French Public Dialogues on Nanotechnology NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette
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
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Traversing Technology Trajectories NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-08-28 Klaessig, Frederick
Scholars in science and technology studies, as well as economics and innovation studies, utilize the trajectory metaphor in describing a technology’s maturation. Impetus and purpose may differ, but the trajectory serves as a shared tool for assessing social change either in society at large or within a market sector, a firm, or a discipline. In reverse, the lens of a technology trajectory can be a
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Juggling Roles, Experiencing Dilemmas: The Challenges of SSH Scholars in Public Engagement NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-08-18 Schuijer, Jantien Willemijn, Broerse, Jacqueline, Kupper, Frank
The progressive introduction of emerging technologies, such as nanotechnology, has created a true testing ground for public engagement initiatives. Widespread experimentation has taken place with public and stakeholder dialogue and inclusive approaches to research and innovation (R&I) more generally. Against this backdrop, Social Science and Humanities (SSH) scholars have started to manifest themselves
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Content Analysis of Nano-news Published Between 2011 and 2018 in Turkish Newspapers NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-08-14 Çalık, Şeyma, Koç, Ayşe, Şenel Zor, Tuba, Zor, Erhan, Aslan, Oktay
The aim of this study is to examine the distribution of news related to nanoscience and nanotechnology (nano-news stories) published in Turkish newspapers between 2011 and 2018. Nine Turkish newspapers selected using criterion sampling were investigated and the document analysis method was used to analyze them. The electronic archives of the newspapers were used to collect data and the word “nano”
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Neuroimages: Some Serving Suggestions NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-08-06 Taylor-Green, Benedict Charles
This art-science interaction evokes two ‘neuroimages’. However, the term ‘neuroimage’ does not refer, as usual, to images that emerge from scientific practices that seek to gain insight into the structural and functional properties of brains. Rather, it is meant that the images considered have as their theme neurotechnologies: specifically, those that concern the control of neuroprostheses, and neuroprostheses
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Safe by Design for Nanomaterials—Late Lessons from Early Warnings for Sustainable Innovation NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-08-03 Brennan, Maurice Edward, Valsami-Jones, Eugenia
The Safe by Design conceptual initiative being developed for nanomaterials offers a template for a new sustainable innovation approach for advanced materials with four important sustainability characteristics. Firstly, it requires potential toxicity risks to be evaluated earlier in the innovation cycle simultaneously with its chemical functionality and possible commercial applications. Secondly, it
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International Handbook on Responsible Innovation — a Global Resource NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Steffi Friedrichs
observe and celebrate an increase of trust in science, predicting that the pandemic would mark a step-change in the role of research and innovation as widely recognised enablers of a safer and better future. Alas, this transformation proved short-lived, as the daily news documented the metamorphosis of the profession of the virologist, who — during the first wave — became overnight a ‘chat show’-trekking
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Hype After Hype: From Bio to Nano to AI NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Franz Seifert,Camilo Fautz
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Manufacturing Life, What Life? Ethical Debates Around Biobanks and Social Robots NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-06-02 Núria Vallès-Peris, Violeta Argudo-Portal, Miquel Domènech
In this paper, we explore how the definition of life takes on an essential character in the ethical debates around health technologies, with life thus being manufactured in the tensions and conflicts around the use of such artefacts and devices. We introduce concepts from science and technology studies (STS) to approach bioethics, overcoming the dualistic conception that separates the natural and the
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The Three Pillars of Functional Autonomy of Hackers NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Johan Söderberg, Maxigas
We propose a conceptual framework for analysing the relationship between social emancipation and alternative technology development. Key is the “functional autonomy” of the collective of users and developers of the technology vis-a-vis state and capital. We draw on previous empirical work about three hacker projects to substantiate the claim that the functional autonomy of hackers rests on three “pillars
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Who Cares for Agile Work? In/Visibilized Work Practices and Their Emancipatory Potential NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-23 Alev Coban, Klara-Aylin Wenten
The future of work has become a pressing matter of concern: Researchers, business consultancies, and industrial companies are intensively studying how new work models could be best implemented to increase workplace flexibility and creativity. In particular, the agile model has become one of the “must-have” elements for re-organizing work practices, especially for technology development work. However
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Technopolitics from Below: A Framework for the Analysis of Digital Politics of Production NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-23 Simon Schaupp
This article develops a multi-level framework for the analysis of a bottom-up politics of technology at the workplace. It draws on a multi-case study on algorithmic management of manual labor in manufacturing and delivery platforms in Germany. In researching how workers influenced the use of algorithmic management systems, the concept of technopolitics is developed to refer to three different arenas
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Dialectics of Technical Emancipation—Considerations on a Reflexive, Sustainable Technology Development NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Georg Jochum
The modern idea of emancipation is linked to the goal of overcoming dependencies and domination. However, as argued in the article, negative dialectics of emancipation must also be problematized. The project of emancipation, as it was formulated in the Age of Enlightenment, was often particular and was associated with the establishment of new forms of domination. Especially the project of liberation
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Towards a Digital Workerism: Workers’ Inquiry, Methods, and Technologies NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Jamie Woodcock
Digital technology is playing an increasingly visible role in the organisation of many people’s work—as well as large parts of their lives more broadly. The concerns of emancipatory technology studies, or other critical accounts of technology, are often focused on finding alternative uses of technology. In many workplace contexts—from call centres to platform work—the imperatives of capital are deeply
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Citizen Science Fiction: The Potential of Situated Speculative Prototyping for Public Engagement on Emerging Technologies NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-03-13 Jantien W. Schuijer, Jacqueline E. W. Broerse, Frank Kupper
In response to calls for a research and innovation system that is more open to public scrutiny, we have seen a growth of formal and informal public engagement activities in the past decades. Nevertheless, critiques of several persistent routines in public engagement continue to resurface, in particular the focus on expert knowledge, cognitive exchange, risk discourse, and understandings of public opinion
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Rethinking Assistive Technologies: Users, Environments, Digital Media, and App-Practices of Hearing NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-04 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:
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What It Takes to Be a Pioneer: Ability Expectations From Brain-Computer Interface Users NanoEthics (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Johannes Kögel, Gregor Wolbring
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are envisioned to enable new abilities of action. This potential can be fruitful in particular when it comes to restoring lost motion or communication abilities or to implementing new possibilities of action. However, BCIs do not come without presuppositions. Applying the concept of ability expectations to BCIs, a wide range of requirements on the side of the users