Jameson M Wetmore
Biographic Data
| ID | 116541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jameson M Wetmore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jameson M |
| FAMILY NAME | Wetmore |
| SIGNATURE | WETMORE J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4591-0759 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Engineering in Unfamiliar Places: Two Case Studies for Those Who Want to Change the World
This article offers two case studies to illustrate the challenges in applying mainstream engineering educational training in a different culture and context while also offering some suggestions for more integrated and context-based educational approaches. The overall goal is not to dissuade energetic and well-meaning engineers looking to make a difference in the lives of communities around the world (although it is clear that in many cases, engin…
Technology and Society, Second Edition: Building Our Sociotechnical Future
Situating science in Africa: The dynamics of computing research in Nairobi and Kampala
Since the turn of the century, both Kampala and Nairobi have experienced a dramatic growth of computer science research, challenging accepted views of science in Africa. We deploy qualitative methods to follow active computer science researchers, graduate students, policy makers, administrators and entrepreneurs, in order to understand how computer science is enacted in these two cities. Our analysis focuses on four interrelated areas of labor, i…
The Rise of Computing Research in East Africa: The Relationship Between Funding, Capacity and Research Community in a Nascent Field
An Anticipatory Social Assessment of Factory-Grown Meat
On August 5, 2013, a prototype sample of cultured, or in vitro, meat was tasted at a well-publicized event in London [1]. This hamburger was not grown in an animal, but rather from bovine stem cells in Dr. Mark Post?s laboratory at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The event may foreshadow a day when traditional livestock production has given way to large-scale growth of meat in factories, or carneries. Dr. Post has suggested that commerc…
Delegating to the Automobile: Experimenting with Automotive Restraints in the 1970s
This article explores the attempts in the United States in the 1970s to implement a new paradigm for automobile safety-crashworthiness, the idea that automobile passengers should be protected in the event of a crash. A large number of strategies were proposed, including air bags, seatbelt modifications, mandatory belt-use laws, and ignition interlocks. Many of these did not initially come to fruition, but they did give the automobile safety commu…
Introduction: Global Perspectives on Road Safety History
This special issue of Technology and Culture explores the ways in which road use and road safety have changed since the 1880s, including how different road users interacted with each other, technology, regulation, engineering, design, and the built environment. Together the articles provide a look at a variety of approaches across North America, Europe, and Africa and at different road users such as pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers. While most …
Practitioners’ Views on Responsibility: Applying Nanoethics
Researching and Teaching the Ethics and Social Implications of Emerging Technologies in the Laboratory
Jameson M. Wetmore’s Review of Kelly Sims Gallagher, China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development
For several decades those who follow the automobile industry have been speculating as to what will happen when the Chinese people begin to build and drive automobiles in large numbers. The issue has generated both excitement and concern. While automobile executives have fantasized about a potentially large and lucrative market, others worry about the local and global environmental effects of hundreds of millions of new drivers. The ultimate econo…
On China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development
Amish Technology: Reinforcing values and building community
The Amish believe that their society and their technology are inextricably intertwined. In an effort to maintain and protect their community of believers, therefore, the Amish require that every technology they use not only conforms to, but reinforces their tradition, culture, and religion. They achieve these goals through two primary techniques. First they choose technologies that they believe will best promote the values they hold most dear - v…
Distributing Risks and Responsibilities: Flood Hazard Mitigation in New Orleans
Coordinated responses to flooding in the New Orleans area date back to at least the early 18 century when the Company of the Indies built a mile long bulwark on a natural levee. Since that early project, corporations, NGOs, and local, state, and federal governments have taken numerous steps to limit the risk of flooding including building extensive levee systems, redirecting rivers, and developing evacuation plans. Like many risks that have been …
Introduction: Reconstructing Order through Rhetorics of Risk
Redefining Risks and Redistributing Responsibilities: Building Networks to Increase Automobile Safety
This article draws on the history of automobile safety in the United States to illustrate how technical design has been used to promote or maintain duties, values, and ethics. It examines two specific episodes: the debates over the "crash avoidance" and "crash-worthiness" approaches in the 1960s and the responses to the accusation that air bags were killing dozens of people in the mid-1990s. In each of these debates, certain auto safety advocates…
Engineering Ethics: Balancing Cost, Schedule, and Risk--Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle . Rosa Lynn B. Pinkus, Larry J. Shuman , Norman P. Hummon , Harvey Wolfe The Challenger Launch Decision: …
Redefining Risks and Redistributing Responsibilities: Building Networks to Increase Automobile Safety
This article draws on the history of automobile safety in the United States to illustrate how technical design has been used to promote or maintain duties, values, and ethics. It examines two specific episodes: the debates over the "crash avoidance" and "crash-worthiness" approaches in the 1960s and the responses to the accusation that air bags were killing dozens of people in the mid-1990s. In each of these debates, certain auto safety advocates…
Distributing Risks and Responsibilities: Flood Hazard Mitigation in New Orleans
Coordinated responses to flooding in the New Orleans area date back to at least the early 18 century when the Company of the Indies built a mile long bulwark on a natural levee. Since that early project, corporations, NGOs, and local, state, and federal governments have taken numerous steps to limit the risk of flooding including building extensive levee systems, redirecting rivers, and developing evacuation plans. Like many risks that have been …
The Rise of Computing Research in East Africa: The Relationship Between Funding, Capacity and Research Community in a Nascent Field
Introduction: Global Perspectives on Road Safety History
This special issue of Technology and Culture explores the ways in which road use and road safety have changed since the 1880s, including how different road users interacted with each other, technology, regulation, engineering, design, and the built environment. Together the articles provide a look at a variety of approaches across North America, Europe, and Africa and at different road users such as pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers. While most …
Practitioners’ Views on Responsibility: Applying Nanoethics
Researching and Teaching the Ethics and Social Implications of Emerging Technologies in the Laboratory
Situating science in Africa: The dynamics of computing research in Nairobi and Kampala
Since the turn of the century, both Kampala and Nairobi have experienced a dramatic growth of computer science research, challenging accepted views of science in Africa. We deploy qualitative methods to follow active computer science researchers, graduate students, policy makers, administrators and entrepreneurs, in order to understand how computer science is enacted in these two cities. Our analysis focuses on four interrelated areas of labor, i…
Engineering Ethics: Balancing Cost, Schedule, and Risk--Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle . Rosa Lynn B. Pinkus, Larry J. Shuman , Norman P. Hummon , Harvey Wolfe The Challenger Launch Decision: …
Introduction: Reconstructing Order through Rhetorics of Risk
Redefining Risks and Redistributing Responsibilities: Building Networks to Increase Automobile Safety
This article draws on the history of automobile safety in the United States to illustrate how technical design has been used to promote or maintain duties, values, and ethics. It examines two specific episodes: the debates over the "crash avoidance" and "crash-worthiness" approaches in the 1960s and the responses to the accusation that air bags were killing dozens of people in the mid-1990s. In each of these debates, certain auto safety advocates…
Amish Technology: Reinforcing values and building community
The Amish believe that their society and their technology are inextricably intertwined. In an effort to maintain and protect their community of believers, therefore, the Amish require that every technology they use not only conforms to, but reinforces their tradition, culture, and religion. They achieve these goals through two primary techniques. First they choose technologies that they believe will best promote the values they hold most dear - v…
Distributing Risks and Responsibilities: Flood Hazard Mitigation in New Orleans
Coordinated responses to flooding in the New Orleans area date back to at least the early 18 century when the Company of the Indies built a mile long bulwark on a natural levee. Since that early project, corporations, NGOs, and local, state, and federal governments have taken numerous steps to limit the risk of flooding including building extensive levee systems, redirecting rivers, and developing evacuation plans. Like many risks that have been …
Jameson M. Wetmore’s Review of Kelly Sims Gallagher, China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development
For several decades those who follow the automobile industry have been speculating as to what will happen when the Chinese people begin to build and drive automobiles in large numbers. The issue has generated both excitement and concern. While automobile executives have fantasized about a potentially large and lucrative market, others worry about the local and global environmental effects of hundreds of millions of new drivers. The ultimate econo…
On China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development
Researching and Teaching the Ethics and Social Implications of Emerging Technologies in the Laboratory
Practitioners’ Views on Responsibility: Applying Nanoethics
An Anticipatory Social Assessment of Factory-Grown Meat
On August 5, 2013, a prototype sample of cultured, or in vitro, meat was tasted at a well-publicized event in London [1]. This hamburger was not grown in an animal, but rather from bovine stem cells in Dr. Mark Post?s laboratory at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The event may foreshadow a day when traditional livestock production has given way to large-scale growth of meat in factories, or carneries. Dr. Post has suggested that commerc…
Delegating to the Automobile: Experimenting with Automotive Restraints in the 1970s
This article explores the attempts in the United States in the 1970s to implement a new paradigm for automobile safety-crashworthiness, the idea that automobile passengers should be protected in the event of a crash. A large number of strategies were proposed, including air bags, seatbelt modifications, mandatory belt-use laws, and ignition interlocks. Many of these did not initially come to fruition, but they did give the automobile safety commu…
Introduction: Global Perspectives on Road Safety History
This special issue of Technology and Culture explores the ways in which road use and road safety have changed since the 1880s, including how different road users interacted with each other, technology, regulation, engineering, design, and the built environment. Together the articles provide a look at a variety of approaches across North America, Europe, and Africa and at different road users such as pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers. While most …
The Rise of Computing Research in East Africa: The Relationship Between Funding, Capacity and Research Community in a Nascent Field
Situating science in Africa: The dynamics of computing research in Nairobi and Kampala
Since the turn of the century, both Kampala and Nairobi have experienced a dramatic growth of computer science research, challenging accepted views of science in Africa. We deploy qualitative methods to follow active computer science researchers, graduate students, policy makers, administrators and entrepreneurs, in order to understand how computer science is enacted in these two cities. Our analysis focuses on four interrelated areas of labor, i…
Technology and Society, Second Edition: Building Our Sociotechnical Future
Engineering in Unfamiliar Places: Two Case Studies for Those Who Want to Change the World
This article offers two case studies to illustrate the challenges in applying mainstream engineering educational training in a different culture and context while also offering some suggestions for more integrated and context-based educational approaches. The overall goal is not to dissuade energetic and well-meaning engineers looking to make a difference in the lives of communities around the world (although it is clear that in many cases, engin…
Engineering (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Computer security (3 works) · Law (3 works)