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Science fiction as a value scenario for historical technology

verfasst von: Ian S. King

Erschienen in: Ethics and Information Technology | Ausgabe 1/2021

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The value scenario is a useful tool in the sheaf of methods within value sensitive design. When envisioning new technology, this tool supports the designer in speculatively considering relevant stakeholders, values expressed or rebuffed by an artifact’s design, and tensions that may exist between those values. This paper explores how science fiction stories can serve as value scenarios to supplement traditional historical methods, especially when informants are no longer accessible.

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I frequently use the phrase stakeholder role rather than the simpler stakeholder because it emphasizes that a ‘stakeholder’ is not an individual.

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Titel: Science fiction as a value scenario for historical technology
verfasst von: Ian S. King
Publikationsdatum: 11.07.2018
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Ethics and Information Technology / Ausgabe 1/2021
Print ISSN: 1388-1957
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-8439
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-018-9468-2

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