Peter-Paul Verbeek, What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency and Design

Waelbers, Katinka

doi:10.1007/s11948-007-9010-0

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“…People who recognize the moral hazards posed in technology practice activities gradually form a moral consensus on technology, generate happy or unhappy moral emotions when applying technology, and can make moral judgments on the good and evil of technology (Moll et al, 2005;Šamánková et al, 2018). These support the theoretical connotation of moral sense in human society, so we propose the concept of technology moral sense, a lasting and stable inner experience produced by people reflecting on the moral hazards associated with technology (Waelbers, 2007).…”

Section: Technology Moral Sensementioning

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Technology moral sense: Development, reliability, and validity of the TMS scale in Chinese version

Huang

2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionThe aggregation of intelligent technologies such as big data, algorithms, and biometrics poses new moral risks to humanity and has raised awareness of technology ethics. Based on the research on moral issues in the fields of ethics and psychology, we built the concept of technology moral sense (TMS) by investigating three dimensions—technology moral consensus, cognition, and emotion.MethodsWe focused on the field of intelligent surveillance technology, adopted a scale, and conducted a questionnaire survey with more than 1,000 respondents. We used exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to test two different samples.ResultsFirst, by combining item analysis and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, we established that all three dimensions are reliable. Our results indicated a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.944, 0.891 and 0.938 for technology moral consensus, emotion, and cognition. Second, exploratory factor analysis verified that there were three factors, the eigenvalues were all greater than one, and the cumulative variance explanation rate was 74.953%, and the factor loading coefficient of the 18 items are greater than 0.5. Finally, we used confirmatory factor analysis to test the fit of the model. The test shows that RMSEA = 0.078, CFI and TLI are greater than 0.9, which indicating the fit was suitable and the construct validity was good.DiscussionOur findings demonstrated that the new scale is a reliable tool for assessing the technology moral sense in China. The results support the reliability and validity of the Technology Moral Sense (TMS) scale, and explain the existence of the concept of technology moral sense through three dimensions.

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Section: Technology Moral Sensementioning

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Technology moral sense: Development, reliability, and validity of the TMS scale in Chinese version

Huang

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…Egentligen är vi nog ganska bra på att läsa av och göra snabba och precisa tolkningar av föremål omkring oss med avseende på deras ålder och ungefärliga livshistorier, om man vill använda en sådan term. 3 Till vår hjälp har vi, som sagt, många olika ledtrådar. En grupp av sådana ledtrådar har att göra med nötningsgrad, förslitning och skick.…”

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Fredrikzon¹

2023

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The notion that the digital world is altogether virtual or immaterial has been successfully debunked by scholars during the last decade or so. The cloud rests, as it were, on large data centers consuming electricity equivalent to entire cities. Yet, the level where users encounter digital information is typically devoid of traces of use as well as the common signs of aging that we associate with physical things exposed to time. This becomes apparent as we begin to study the earliest so called born-digital archives. Any vintage equipment used in the process may, of course, be dented and faded, the subject matter, cultural references, writing style, artistic design, technical limitations and so on will surely indicate time gone by. Hence, intellectually we will perfectly well recognize that we are working with material from the early days of personal computing by these marks of antiquity as David Lowenthal has called them. But the files displayed on the screen – be they symbols of the interface, a spreadsheet, a personal letter, items in the trashcan – will reveal no look of age. With scholars increasingly interested in the material dimensions of their research and provided that the look of age is considered important as a set of unique visual and sensory cues pointing to the prior use and handling of an object – then researchers might have to reassess their tools for how to make sense of these materials. This, I argue, is an up until now scarcely considered aspect of digital archives, revealing itself most visibly to scholars prepared to engage directly with antiquated equipment such as running old files on old machines or exploring vintage applications on original consoles. If the old documents we study in some respects look new (or somehow beyond time, aging or decay) – does it matter?

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“…"…a hammer may be a murder weapon, a paperweight, an art object, and so on; cell phones have been used as detonators and as devices to help victim hunters find people after earthquakes or may, as in the hacking incidents of summer 2011, be used to snoop, deceive, and even bring down politicians…" (Ihde 2012, p. 328) Verbeek ( 2005) builds on and develops the concept of the postphenomenological empirical turn with his own mediation theory with the idea of artefacts having morality. Verbeek's (2005) work looks at human-technology relations and the design of artefacts and how these artefacts mediate morality and shape the human, and what we do (Coeckelbergh 2020). This contrasts with technological determinism but doesn't afford society full agency as would the social constructivist perspective.…”

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“…This contrasts with technological determinism but doesn't afford society full agency as would the social constructivist perspective. Artefacts from this perspective have morality as they have the potential to improve lives when mediating our actions with the world (Verbeek 2005). Aagaard (2017) sketches out postphenomenology opportunities in qualitative research, identifying opportunities to explore in-depth analysis of a technology and its typical use and critical comparison of multiple versions of the same technology.…”

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Blurring boundaries between humans and technology: postdigital, postphenomenology and actor-network theory in qualitative research

Matthews

2020

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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Peter-Paul Verbeek, What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency and Design

Cited by 23 publications

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Technology moral sense: Development, reliability, and validity of the TMS scale in Chinese version

Technology moral sense: Development, reliability, and validity of the TMS scale in Chinese version

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Blurring boundaries between humans and technology: postdigital, postphenomenology and actor-network theory in qualitative research

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