Videnskabsteori Module E

Who said “The role of lay people in the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge”

Michel Callon

What is the “Weaver’s problem”

How to establish a liaison between designers and social groups, seperated by forces of mass production.

What are the producers early respone to the Weavers problem?

Marketing and consumer research, industrial design and ergonomics

What are the consumers early respone to the Weavers problem?

Buy and replace rather than make and mend, repurposing technologies

What were some of the later solutions to the Weavers problem?

Collaborative design, Human-centered design (HCD), Consumption studies, Innovation studies, Science and technology studies

What is (non)acceptance?

When a person or group does not fully accept, adopt or support a technology, even if they have access to it

What are the categories of non-acceptance of Internet users

Resisters, Rejecters, Excluded, Expelled

Who is the public according to Dewey?

What does STS scholar Noortje Marres argue about the Public?

That Publics are not fixed, they er “issue publics” that assemble around issues

What is “material publics” according to Marres?

Technologies define and materialize issues

What are the 4 types of publics?

Concerned, Issue, Networked, Affective

What connects people in the concerned publics

Shared consequences

How does the concerned public form?

People are affected - becomes concerned - recognuze a problem

What connects people in the issue publics?

Contested issue

How do the issue politics publics form?

Problems are debated - different framings - publics assemble around issues

What connects people in the networked publics

Digital connectivity

How do the networked publics form?

Platforms enable visibility interactions - publics forms through networks

What connects people in the affective publics

Shared emotions

How do the affective publics form

Feelings circulate . expressions connect poeple - publics form around affect

What are the implications for engineers surrounding publics?

Engineers help shape what issues becomes, who gets involved and what counts as evidence through designing technologies

What is the information deficit hypothesis?

The public acceptance of technology depends on the publics level of literacy and lack of literacy can be mended by communicating information from experts to the public

What is the Public Education Model?