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  1. Turn, Turn, and Turn Again: The Woolgar Formula.Trevor Pinch - 1993 - Science, Technology and Human Values 18 (4):511-522.
    This response to a recent article in ST&HV by Woolgar investigates Woolgar's concept of analytic ambivalence. The response points out how this notion originates in a formula applied to social problems research and how this formula is used as the basis for Woolgar's critique of work in the social studies of technology. The response then goes on to show that Woolgar's own application of the formula of analytic ambivalence is formulaic and glosses over many of the interesting features of the (...)
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  • Developing the Vectorial Glance: Infrastructural Inversion for the New Agenda on Government Information Systems.Annalisa Pelizza - 2016 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 41 (2):298-321.
    Integrating information systems has become a key goal for governments worldwide. Systems of “authentic registers,” for instance, provide government agencies with information from databases acknowledged as the only legitimate sources of data. Concerns are thus arising about the risks for democratic accountability constituted by more and more integrated governmental IS. Studies call for a new research agenda that investigates the redistribution of authority and accountability entailed by interoperable IS. This article contributes to this endeavor by suggesting the “vectorial glance” as (...)
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  • The Politics of Technology: On Bringing Social Theory into Technological Design.Marc Berg - 1998 - Science, Technology and Human Values 23 (4):456-490.
    New approaches in the design of information technologies for work practices are drawing upon theories from sociology, anthropology, and social philosophy. Under the labels of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Participatory Design, work is done to "neturn" to design insights gained in the social study of the use of technological artifacts. Aftera brief introduction of these developments, the article zooms in on those authors for whom "better" technologies refer to hopes for more democratic and more worker-oriented workplaces. How do these approaches (...)
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  • Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Social Welfare: Some Ethical and Historical Perspectives on Technological Overstatement and Hyperbole.Jo Ann Oravec - 2019 - Ethics and Social Welfare 13 (1):18-32.
    The potential societal impacts of automation using intelligent control and communications technologies have emerged as topics in a number of recent writings and public policy initiatives. Many of these expressions have referenced the writings and research efforts of Herbert Simon (1961), Norbert Wiener (1948), and contemporaries from their early technological and social vantage points concerning the future of technology and society. Constructed entities labeled as “thinking machines” (such as IBM’s Watson as well as intelligent chatbot and robotic systems) have also (...)
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  • Argument from Consequences and the Urge to Polarize.Benoît Godin - 1999 - Argumentation 13 (4):347-365.
    Polarization is a generalized feature of intellectual life. Few authors however have studied polarities as they actually occur in every day life and discourse. This paper proposes two hypotheses to account for the pervasiveness of polarities. The first relates to uncertainty. Almost everything that touches our lives is filled with irreducible uncertainty. As a rhetoric, polarization uses arguments from (future) consequences in order to manage the future. The second hypothesis relates to phenomenology: body and behavior incorporate tensions or dualistic properties (...)
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  • (1 other version)Thinking about technology.Dominique Vinck - 2012 - Universitas Philosophica 29 (58):17-37.
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  • Antiesencialismo tecnológico y agencia material: una explicación no determinista de la relación tecnología-sociedad.Heiller Zárate - 2020 - Humanitas Hodie 2 (2):h222.
    Este artículo esboza una respuesta a la pregunta sobre cómo explicar los efectos de las tecnologías en la sociedad. Su propósito es mostrar una alternativa a los tradicionales discursos deterministas, los cuales suponen que las tecnologías impactan las formas de organización social. A partir de una crítica a las explicaciones deterministas que predominan actualmente, se presenta una primera conclusión: no hay una relación clara entre los cambios sociales y las características técnicas de las tecnologías. Así, se argu¬menta que las tecnologías (...)
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  • Computers and the Transformation of Social Analysis.Keith Grint & Steve Woolgar - 1991 - Science, Technology and Human Values 16 (3):368-378.
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  • The Computer Prescription: Medical Computing, Public Policy, and Views of History.Bonnie Kaplan - 1995 - Science, Technology and Human Values 20 (1):5-38.
    This article traces past trends and current developments in medical computing in the United States. It suggests a link between shifts in emphases in medical computing and in federal government policy toward health care delivery. The development of medical computing was not driven solely by the internal imperatives of science and technology, but by dreams and visions of how computers could revolutionize medicine. Such dreams and visions constitute a mythical charter similar to ideologies and rhetoric used to mobilize support by (...)
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  • Ict and an ngo: Difficulties in attempting to be extremely transparent. [REVIEW]A. Vaccaro & P. Madsen - 2009 - Ethics and Information Technology 11 (3):221-231.
    This paper analyzes the opportunities offered by information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the related ethical issues, within the transparency practices of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Based upon a one-year study of a European NGO, the Italian Association of Blind People, it presents compelling empirical evidence concerning the main ethical, social and economic challenges that NGOs face in the development of more transparent relationships with the public and the related role of ICTs, in particular, the organization’s website. This study shows that, (...)
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  • Biotech or Biowreck? the Implications of Jurassic Park and Genetic Engineering.Leslie D. Chapin & Sharon L. Chapin - 1994 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 14 (1):19-23.
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