Emotions, values and technology: illuminating the blind spots

Steinert, Steffen; Roeser, Sabine

doi:10.1080/23299460.2020.1738024

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“…Emotions should be integrated into political decision making about potentially risky technology (Roeser and Pesch 2016 ). Extending this idea, public debate and responsible innovation should acknowledge both the importance and potential negative impact of emotions (Steinert and Roeser 2020 ) and reflect on the potential impact of emotional climates on policy decisions.…”

Section: Emotional Climate Value Change and Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corona and value change. The role of social media and emotional contagion

Steinert

2020

Ethics Inf Technol

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People share their emotions on social media and evidence suggests that in times of crisis people are especially motivated to post emotional content. The current Coronavirus pandemic is such a crisis. The online sharing of emotional content during the Coronavirus crisis may contribute to societal value change. Emotion sharing via social media could lead to emotional contagion which in turn could facilitate an emotional climate in a society. In turn, the emotional climate of a society can influence society's value structure. The emotions that spread in the current Coronavirus crisis are predominantly negative, which could result in a negative emotional climate. Based on the dynamic relations of values to each other and the way that emotions relate to values, a negative emotional climate can contribute to societal value change towards values related to security preservation and threat avoidance. As a consequence, a negative emotional climate and the shift in values could lead to a change in political attitudes that has implications for rights, freedom, privacy and moral progress. Considering the impact of social media in terms of emotional contagion and a longer-lasting value change is an important perspective in thinking about the ethical long-term impact of social media technology.

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Section: Emotional Climate Value Change and Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corona and value change. The role of social media and emotional contagion

Steinert

2020

Ethics Inf Technol

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“…Second, we contribute to recent discussions on the analytical relevance of studying affect in STS research (e.g., Balmer, Bulpin, and Molyneux-Hodgson 2016;Smolka, Janssen, and Ghergu 2020;Steinert and Roeser 2020). We combine theoretical insights from postcolonial studies, feminist epistemology, organizational studies, sociology, and STS to develop a heuristic that provides resources for analyzing disconcertment.…”

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From Affect to Action: Choices in Attending to Disconcertment in Interdisciplinary Collaborations

Smolka

Fisher

Hausstein

2020

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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Reports from integrative researchers who have followed calls for sociotechnical integration emphasize that the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration to inflect the social shaping of technoscience is often constrained by their liminal position. Integrative researchers tend to be positioned as either adversarial outsiders or co-opted insiders. In an attempt to navigate these dynamics, we show that attending to affective disturbances can open up possibilities for productive engagements across disciplinary divides. Drawing on the work of Helen Verran, we analyze “disconcertment” in three sociotechnical integration research studies. We develop a heuristic that weaves together disconcertment, affective labor, and responsivity to analyze the role of the body in interdisciplinary collaborations. We draw out how bodies do affective labor when generating responsivity between collaborators in moments of disconcertment. Responsive bodies can function as sensors, sources, and processors of disconcerting experiences of difference. We further show how attending to disconcertment can stimulate methodological choices to recognize, amplify, or minimize the difference between collaborators. Although these choices are context-dependent, each one examined generates responsivity that supports collaborators to readjust the technical in terms of the social. This analysis contributes to science and technology studies scholarship on the role of affect in successes and failures of interdisciplinary collaboration.

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“…To include these concerns early on, RRI should contribute even more substantially to the politicisation of technology issues. For a more political note of technology and innovation, one must open the debate, bringing values, interests and emotions into play (Roeser and Pesch 2016;Steinert and Roeser 2020). This implies not to be afraid of protests and citizens' initiatives, even if emotions, prejudices and dogmas are involved.…”

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Rethinking societal engagement under the heading of Responsible Research and Innovation: (novel) requirements and challenges

Bauer

Bogner

Fuchs

2021

Journal of Responsible Innovation

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Societal engagement is a key dimension of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), aiming at making science, technology and innovation more transparent, interactive and responsive. Within this article, we identify and discuss the specific requirements and challenges for societal engagement under the heading of RRI along five dimensions. First, engagement aims at shaping research and innovation in a socially robust manner. Second, RRI demands a balanced representation of and a balanced view by various actor groups. Third, RRI emphasises engagement moving upstream as well as continuous engagement. Fourth, RRI focusses on forms of invited participation and calls for two-way interactions. Fifth, with the emphasis on ethics as a driving force, RRI favours specific framings of research and innovation. In conclusion, two intertwined challenges arise for societal engagement under RRI: making the political character of science and technology explicit and therefore paying particular attention to framing in 'invited participation'.

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Emotions, values and technology: illuminating the blind spots

Cited by 28 publications

References 102 publications

Corona and value change. The role of social media and emotional contagion

Corona and value change. The role of social media and emotional contagion

From Affect to Action: Choices in Attending to Disconcertment in Interdisciplinary Collaborations

Rethinking societal engagement under the heading of Responsible Research and Innovation: (novel) requirements and challenges

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