Does Ethical Judgment Determine the Decision to Become a Cyborg?

Borondo, Jorge Pelegrín; Arias-Oliva, Mario; Murata, Kiyoshi; Souto-Romero, Mar

doi:10.1007/s10551-018-3970-7

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“…Looking further towards the future, the role of cyborgs could be an interesting avenue of inquiry. It is expected that humans will merge with technology at a rapid scale (Pelegrín‐Borondo et al, 2018). For instance, enhanced vision and stronger limbs will potentially be surgical options that will become mainstream at some point, thus raising the question these changes will affect a person's self.…”

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Extending Diderot unities: How cosmetic surgery changes consumption

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González-Jiménez

Belk

2021

Psychology and Marketing

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Consumers engage in transformative practices such as cosmetic surgery to shape a new self that satisfies personal and social expectations. Yet, we lack an understanding of how cosmetic surgery and the consequent changes to a consumer's self affect their consumption practices. Building on Diderot unities we explore how cosmetic surgery influenced consumption practices of 10 female consumers postcosmetic surgery. Prior work on Diderot unities suggests that it is a new object inspiring the consumption of additional objects. Extending the notion of Diderot unities, we posit that also a new self brings changes in the constellation of consumption objects. Specifically, cosmetic surgery, the self, and material consumption practices are tied together by an expanded view of Diderot unities as not only involving people and objects, but also adding experiences. A newly surgically enhanced person perceives an imbalance between the assemblage of their self and self‐expressive objects. This imbalance sets off a series of purchases to restore balance by acquiring possessions and experiences that match their new magnificent self. Purchases extend to areas such as fashion objects, grooming objects and experiences, as well as experiences related to personal well‐being, vacation and leisure.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extending Diderot unities: How cosmetic surgery changes consumption

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González-Jiménez

Belk

2021

Psychology and Marketing

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“…The study by Murata et al () shows that there is low resistance toward wearables (technology that is worn onto the body) and insideables (technology that is implanted into the body) for human augmentation, but that participants also question the morality of such a use of enhancement technology. In a further study, Pelegrín‐Borondo, Arias‐Oliva, Murata, and Souto‐Romero () show that ethical dimensions explain 48% of the intention to use cyborg technologies. Another body of work aims at capturing the opinion of experts: Murata et al () have shed light on the concerns related to human rights and dignity that experts might have.…”

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Enhancing oneself with an exosense: Learning from users' experiences

Gauttier

2019

Human Behav and Emerg Tech

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The literature on human enhancement has long been limited to the fields of bioethics and philosophy, confining itself to an ideological battle. However, scholars have called for empirical data to move the debate forward. While there is a nascent literature on attitudes toward the human enhancement technology, there has been no scholarly examination of the experience of enhancement. Yet, risks and ethical issues reveal themselves through use. This paper focuses on a new form of cyborg technology for cognitive enhancement on the market: exosenses, that is, external senses. Three cases of the use of exosenses are presented. The experience of exosense users is analyzed based on interviews published in the media and videos posted by the users themselves. A thematic analysis is conducted. The different dimensions of the experiences are revealed. The first one pertains to defining augmentation, the second one is the natural character of exosenses, third one is the impact that the exosense has on real life, the fourth theme is about personal identity and exosense, and finally, the fifth theme revolves around the risks and opportunities presented by the use of exosenses.

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“…Several studies have argued for a need to understand digitised individuals, the drivers of the digitisation of individuals and the consequences of this digitisation, because technologies aimed at the digitisation of individuals have unique features that distinguish them from commonly examined business technologies, or that are insufficiently highlighted and understood in studies of non‐work technologies (Matt, Trenz, et al, 2019; Turel et al, 2019). These characteristics include: (1) the creation of new application domains (e.g., Internet connectivity in any home device that has not been IT‐infused before, see Yashiro, Kobayashi, Koshizuka, & Sakamura, 2013), (2) ubiquitous use, including even embedding IT into human bodies and creating cybernetic organisms, or ‘cyborgs’ (Pelegrín‐Borondo, Arias‐Oliva, Murata, & Souto‐Romero, 2020), (3) user volition in defining technology use settings and portfolios (Liu, Santhanam, & Webster, 2017), (4) a change in user landscape that reflects a shift from digital immigrants to digital natives, and the increased acceptance of digital technologies by digital immigrants (Kesharwani, 2020), (5) self‐determined approaches to usage, and self‐learning necessity (Huang, Backman, Backman, McGuire, & Moore, 2019), (6) globalised markets with little and some may say impossible regulation of user and consumer protections (Tanczer, Brass, Elsden, Carr, & Blackstock, 2019) and (7) broad effects, negative, positive and ambivalent, that can relate to usage and non‐usage of an IT, and that can last long after the IT use has been discontinued.…”

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An intertwined perspective on technology and digitised individuals: Linkages, needs and outcomes

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Trenz

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Information Systems Journal

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Information technology (IT) has changed dramatically over the last several decades. Although, in its early days IT has been mostly used as a tool for conducting business or running complex governmental and organisational operations, it has shifted to also become a productivity and hedonic tool for individual users (Matt, Trenz, Cheung, & Turel, 2019). Readers can reflect on how many technologies surround them now, as they read this article. These can include a range of mixed-use technologies that cater to both hedonic and utilitarian objectives. Examples include, but are not limited to, the device through which this article is read (desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone), a smart TV, smart kitchen appliances, smart watches, wearable fitness trackers, and connected or autonomous cars that drive the readers whilst they listen to a text-to-voice generated version of this article. These changes in the technological landscape have presumably been supported by technological advancements that have made technology more connected and affordable than before, smaller, yet broader in its capabilities, beyond merely being job-or leisure-oriented (Turel et al., 2019). Since many of these technologies are used exclusively in leisure or non-work settings, or in both work and non-work (including leisure) settings, they have created what we call digitised individuals, defined as users who use at least one digital technology in their non-work life domains. 1 Note that digitised individuals have existed since the dawn of personal computers, but we see major growth in the last decade with the vast penetration of smartphones, social media and personal lifestyle and health technologies. We view the collective of digitised individuals as contributing to the phenomenon of the digitisation of individuals, defined as the proliferation of digital technologies in the lives of individual users (Matt, Trenz, et al., 2019). Although the bare minimum to qualify as digitised individuals according to this definition is using one technology for non-work including leisure purposes, nowadays, many people use multiple technologies to different extents, being integrated into their lives in many different ways. This creates a large variability in the extent of their digitisation. The combination of the significant diffusion of digital technologies used by individuals with the variability in their (partly joint) usage leads to the necessity to develop an intertwined perspective that considers technology and the individual at the same time, that is, a socio-technical perspective. Several studies have argued for a need to understand digitised individuals, the drivers of the digitisation of individuals and the consequences of this digitisation, because technologies aimed at the digitisation of individuals have unique features that distinguish them from commonly examined business technologies, or that are insufficiently highlighted and understood in studies of non-work technologies (Matt, Trenz, et al., 2019; Turel et al., 2019). These characteristics inclu...

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Does Ethical Judgment Determine the Decision to Become a Cyborg?

Cited by 35 publications

References 57 publications

Extending Diderot unities: How cosmetic surgery changes consumption

Extending Diderot unities: How cosmetic surgery changes consumption

Enhancing oneself with an exosense: Learning from users' experiences

An intertwined perspective on technology and digitised individuals: Linkages, needs and outcomes

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