How Technologies Harm

A Relational Approach
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4707-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 553 g

Technologies contribute to harms in a variety of ways, but can we ever say they are harmful in-and-of-themselves?

This book offers a new way to understand how technologies, while not intrinsically harmful, are laden with values and dispositions that can contribute to negative outcomes. Building on insights from postphenomenology, realist social theory and the philosophy of action, it provides a framework for examining technology-harm relations: relations with technology that are harmful by virtue of what they contribute to bringing about. It is for anyone seeking to design, regulate, research or simply use technology in a way that prioritizes well-being.

Autoren/Hrsg.

A Wood, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten: Wissenschaft, Technologie, Medizin
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART I: Understanding Harm

1. What Is Social Harm?

2. The Nature of Harm

PART II: Understanding Technology

3. Instruments, Extensions, Affordances

4. Technology as Practice and Actant

5. Postphenomenology and Technological Mediation

PART III: The Technology–Harm Relations Framework

6. An Overview of the Framework

7. Design Modes

8. Translation, Infusion, Zemiosis

9. Doing Harm with Things

10. Harms Beyond Use

11. Higher-order Harm Relations

Conclusion: Pulling at the Threads of Enmeshment

Über Autor(innen)

Mark A. Wood is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University.