Unintended by Design: On the Political Uses of “Unintended Consequences”

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2020-08-01 DOI:10.17351/ests2020.497

Nassim Parvin, A. Pollock

引用次数: 35

Abstract

This paper revisits the term “unintended consequences,” drawing upon an illustrative vignette to show how it is used to dismiss vital ethical and political concerns. Tracing the term to its original introduction by Robert Merton and building on feminist technoscience analyses, we uncover and rethink its widespread usage in popular and scholarly discourses and practices of technology design.

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无意的设计：论“无意的后果”的政治用途

本文重新审视了“意外后果”一词，利用一个说明性的小插曲来展示它是如何被用来消除重要的道德和政治问题的。追溯罗伯特·默顿（Robert Merton）对该术语的最初介绍，并在女权主义技术科学分析的基础上，我们发现并重新思考了它在流行和学术话语以及技术设计实践中的广泛使用。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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