The Civic Shaping of Technology: California’s Electric Vehicle Program

Brown, Mark B.

doi:10.1177/016224390102600103

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“…Such products are complex in that they can offer a mix of private, symbolic and pro-societal benefits to the consumer (Brown, 2001;Heffner et al, 2007). Consumer preference for such technologies might be motivated by one or multiple benefits-which can vary greatly across the market.…”

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confidence: 99%

Preference and lifestyle heterogeneity among potential plug-in electric vehicle buyers

2015

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Preference and lifestyle heterogeneity among potential plug-in electric vehicle buyers

2015

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“…Studies in information systems have challenged the liberal pluralist notion that a government is merely one ' actant' among many. These studies have advanced the idea that governments have the interest and ability to use policies and technologies to challenge other dominant groups (Brown 2001;Wynne 1996). This emphasis is particularly important in developing countries where the state, while not always able to perform its stated functions in terms of the delivery of public services and goods, still does tend to occupy a position of prominence among other actors involved in policy making and implementation in the ICT sector (Gagliardone 2014a).…”

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The Evolution of the Internet in Ethiopia and Rwanda: Towards a “Developmental” Model?

Gagliardone

Golooba-Mutebi

2016

Stability: International Journal of Security and Development

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The Internet in Africa has become an increasingly contested space, where competing ideas of development and society battle for hegemony. By comparing the evolution of the Internet in Ethiopia and Rwanda, we question whether policies and projects emerging from two of Africa's fastest growing, but also most tightly controlled countries, can be understood as part of a relatively cohesive model of the 'developmental' Internet, which challenges mainstream conceptions. Our answer is a qualified yes. Ethiopia and Rwanda have shared an overarching strategy which places the state as the prime mover in the development of Internet policy and large-scale ICT projects. Rwanda, however, appears to have developed a more open model which can accommodate a greater variety of actors and opinions, and incorporate them within a relatively coherent vision that emanates from the centre. Ethiopia, in contrast, has developed a more closed model, where all powers rest firmly in the hands of a government that has refused (so far) to entertain and engage with alternative ideas of the Internet. In the case of Rwanda, we argue, this approach reflects broader strategies adopted by the government in the economic domain but appears to counter the prevailing political approach of the government, allowing for a greater degree of freedom on the Internet as compared to traditional media. While in the case of Ethiopia, the opposite is true; Ethiopia's Internet policies appear to run counter to prevailing economic policies but fit tightly with the government's approach to politics and governance. stability

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“…Infrastructure is a key site of study for STS scholars who wish to explore the co-construction of end-users and technologies (see for example: Bowker and Star 1999;Brown 2001;Summerton 2004). Infrastructure is also often treated as a kind of black box (Pinch and Bijker 1984;Winner 1993).…”

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“…Both guerilla art and juried installations have been used to express critical messages from Surveillance Studies discourse. For example, through the Surveillance Camera Players (SCP), Michael Carter (1995) and Bill Brown (1996) called for individuals to launch dramatic performances in front of security cameras in New York City. An original intention of the SCP was to subvert the purpose of the surveillance infrastructure.…”

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Playing with surveillance: The design of a mock RFID-based identification infrastructure for public engagement

Smith

McPhail

Ferenbok

et al. 2011

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In many jurisdictions around the globe, governments are developing ID schemes based on radio frequency identification (RFID) and biometric technologies. In Canada, four provinces recently implemented RFID based ‘enhanced’ drivers licences (EDL) in response to the United States’ Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), which requires all persons entering the United States to present a valid passport or alternative ‘secure’ document to prove their identity and citizenship. As researchers, we were closely involved in following the EDL policy development process. It became evident, as we attended legislative hearings, that parliamentarians needed clarifications to understand how the RFID identification scheme would function in practice. This project began with the goal of designing prototypes to demonstrate security and civil liberty concerns with a new RFID-based identification (ID) scheme in Canada. Influenced by participatory design and probe approaches to technology design, we built and tested mock infrastructures of RFID-based identification systems including low fidelity paper prototypes, and high fidelity prototypes using RFID-chipped cards, a database, antenna and reader. We also worked closely with civil society organizations to run public engagement activities. This paper reports on our attempts to create spaces for ‘playful’ engagement with RFID-based ID scheme technology at a time of ‘serious’ policy deliberations. Designed in the spirit of serious play, our mock ID infrastructures make the security and civil liberties challenges inherent in the proposed combination of ID cards and databases more visible, while demonstrating how such ID schemes work. At this point, we see future promise in the design and use of mock ID infrastructure for public engagement during relevant policy deliberations about ID schemes and databases which contain personal information.

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The Civic Shaping of Technology: California’s Electric Vehicle Program

Cited by 40 publications

References 23 publications

Preference and lifestyle heterogeneity among potential plug-in electric vehicle buyers

Preference and lifestyle heterogeneity among potential plug-in electric vehicle buyers

The Evolution of the Internet in Ethiopia and Rwanda: Towards a “Developmental” Model?

Playing with surveillance: The design of a mock RFID-based identification infrastructure for public engagement

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