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Technoscience and Citizenship: Ethics and Governance in the Digital Society

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Ana Delgado

    1. Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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  • Addresses the governance of emerging technosciences with a focus on the co-evolution of emerging technologies and normative issues
  • Combines a broad perspective on governance and emerging technologies with concrete discussions on particular technologies
  • Brings issues of governance and ethics together ?

Part of the book series: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology (ELTE, volume 17)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. The Governance of Emerging Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Democracy, Ethics and the Governance of Emerging Science and Technology

      • Roger Strand, Silvio Funtowicz
      Pages 3-15

    3. ‘The Public Spectre’: A Critical Concept of Public Engagement with Technology

      • Kim Sune Jepsen, Ana Delgado, Thora Margareta Bertilsson
      Pages 17-30

  3. Governing the Human Body and Mind

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Cochlear Implantation: Exploring Technoscience and Designs on Citizenship

      • Kim Sune Jepsen
      Pages 33-48

    3. The Modification of the Human Body: Controversies

      • Søren Holm
      Pages 49-61

    4. New Options and Identities: Body Enhancement in Science Fiction Narrative

      • Miquel Barceló, Louis Lemkow
      Pages 63-79

  4. Governing Citizen’s Movements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. The Fifth Freedom and the Burden of Executive Power

      • Kristrún Gunnarsdóttir
      Pages 83-98

    3. How Do Violations of Privacy and Moral Autonomy Threaten the Basis of Our Democracy?

      • Katrin Laas-Mikko, Margit Sutrop
      Pages 99-112

    4. Introducing Biometrics in the European Union: Practice and Imagination

      • Kjetil Rommetveit
      Pages 113-126

  5. Governing Spaces

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Digital Globes: Layers of Meaning and Technology, Redefining Geographies and Communities

      • Kjetil Rommetveit, Ângela Guimarães Pereira, Tiago Pedrosa
      Pages 129-142

    3. Beyond Professional Ethics: GIS, Codes of Ethics, and Emerging Challenges

      • Fanny Verrax
      Pages 143-161

    4. Geoengineering: Reflections on Current Debates

      • Paula Curvelo, Ângela Guimarães Pereira
      Pages 163-184

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 185-189
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About this book

This book provides insights on how emerging technosciences come together with new forms of governance and ethical questioning. Combining science and technologies and ethics approaches, it looks at the emergence of three key technoscientific domains - body enhancement technologies, biometrics and technologies for the production of space -exploring how human bodies and minds, the movement of citizens and space become matters of technoscientific governance. The emergence of new and digital technologies pose new challenges for representative democracy and existing forms of citizenship. As citizens encounter and have to adapt to technological change in their everyday life, new forms of conviviality and contestation emerge. This book is a key reference for scholars interested in the governance of emerging technosciences in the fields of science and technology studies and ethics.  ​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Ana Delgado

About the editor

Ana Delgado is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research interest has been on how biological objects are stabilized, legitimized and made public. Her work combines approaches from STS, political theory and social anthropology. She is currently doing research on digital biology, open science, and the emergence of new social movements in the intersection between science and politics. She has published on diverse topics in journals such as Public Understanding of Science, Science Communication, Geoforum and Nature Nanotechnology, among others. 

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