Jason A Delborne
Biographic Data
| ID | 1676722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason A Delborne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason A |
| FAMILY NAME | Delborne |
| SIGNATURE | DELBORNE J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6436-782X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Generative deliberation as anticipatory practice
Anticipation is a critically important dimension of responsible research and innovation (RRI) and can help shape research and innovation pathways. However, how anticipation is realized in practice is a relatively undertheorized territory. Our aim is to offer some clarity on how practitioners might think more concretely about the contributions of anticipatory practices, such as stakeholder workshops. In this article, we utilize the concept of `soc…
Toward Platform Capitalism in Agrobiodiversity? Examining the Potential Challenges of E-Commerce Integration in Agrobiodiversity Apps
In recent years, citizen-driven initiatives have significantly transformed agrobiodiversity monitoring, exemplified by platforms like Wiki Papa and VarScout, which support Andean potato conservation in Peru. Wiki Papa serves as a curated repository documenting local potato varieties, while VarScout enables the collection of on-the-ground potato data from farming fields and Andean households. These platforms integrate citizen science with conserva…
Moving beyond narrow definitions of gene drive
Gene drive is an emerging biotechnology with applications in global health, conservation and agriculture. Scientists are preparing for field trials, triggering debate about when and how to release gene-drive organisms. These decisions depend on public understandings of gene drive, which are shaped by language. While some studies on gene drive communication assume the need to persuade publics of expert definitions of gene drive, we highlight the i…
The politics of genetic technoscience for conservation
Innovations in genetics and genomics have been heavily critiqued as technologies that have widely supported the privatization and commodification of natural resources. However, emerging applications of these tools to ecological restoration challenge narratives that cast genetic technoscience as inevitably enrolled in the enactment and extension of neoliberal capitalism. In this paper, we draw on Langdon Winner's theory of technological politics t…
The Decision Phases Framework for Public Engagement
Some experts and advocates propose environmental biotechnologies such as genetic engineering, gene drive systems, and synthetic biology as potential solutions to accelerating rates of species loss. While these tools may offer hope for a seemingly intractable problem, they also present potential governance challenges for which innovative decision‐making systems are required. Two of the perennial governance challenges include, when are broader stak…
Social license and synthetic biology
In the wake of controversies over first-generation biotechnologies, the growing field of synthetic biology appears cognizant of the need to attend to the social, political, cultural, and ethical dimensions of innovation. Public engagement has emerged as an important means for attending to these dimensions. Here, we call attention to the problematic nature of one paradigm being drawn upon to conceptualize this public engagement for synthetic biolo…
Dueling metaphors, fueling futures
Rooted in Recognition
The restoration plan for the American chestnut tree includes the potential wild release of a genetically engineered tree in close proximity to the sovereign Haudenosaunee communities of Central and Upstate New York. As such, inclusive deliberative frameworks are needed to consider the implications for these communities. Indigenous environmental justice highlights the importance of recognizing tribal sovereignty and Indigenous worldviews as founda…
Mapping research and governance needs for gene drives’
KEYWORDS: Gene drivebiotechnologysynthetic biologygenetic pest managementgovernance of emerging technologies
A roadmap for gene drives
The deployment of gene drives is emerging as an alternative for protecting endangered species, controlling agricultural pests, and reducing vector-borne diseases. This paper reports on a workshop held in February 2016 to explore the complex intersection of political, economic, ethical, and ecological risk issues associated with gene drives. Workshop participants were encouraged to use systems thinking and mapping to describe the connections among…
Roadblocks to responsible innovation
Information beyond the forum
During traditional consensus conferences, organizers control the formal information available to participants—by compiling structured background materials and recruiting expert panelists. Less formally, however, participants are encouraged to bring their own experiences into the deliberations, and in doing so, they often seek outside information. We explore this heretofore understudied phenomenon of information seeking during a deliberative event…
Beyond Engagement Exercises
Exercises intended to engage laypeople in deliberations about emerging scientific and technological issues have become very popular in recent decades. These exercises are typically organized by political or intellectual elites, and often assessed in a top-down fashion as well. This paper disrupts that pattern by using a mix of complementary qualitative approaches to explore the experiences of citizen participants in a large exercise on emerging t…
Virtual deliberation? Prospects and challenges for integrating the Internet in consensus conferences
Consensus conferences have functioned well in small, relatively homogeneous countries such as Denmark. In the geographically sprawling and socially diverse United States, however, meaningful citizen deliberation and decision-making on science and technology depends upon the ability to bring more participants “into the room.” The National Citizens’ Technology Forum, held in March 2008, responded to this need by integrating panels of citizens from …
Engaging citizens
This paper contributes to ongoing discussions on democratic engagement through an exploration of citizen participation in two citizen consensus conferences on nanotechnology, one held in 2005 and the second in 2008. We analyze the factors that motivate citizens to participate formally in debates about emerging “high technologies” and consider demographic and related characteristics of the participants in these two consensus conferences and the re…
Imagining Ordinary Citizens? Conceptualized and Actual Participants for Deliberations on Emerging Technologies
In this paper, we explore conceptualizations of ‘ordinary’ citizens common in public engagement forums on emerging technologies and assumptions from deliberative theory that ordinary people are more likely to be appropriately ‘changed’ through deliberative processes facilitated by experts. Looking at a large US public forum event [the National Citizens Technology Forum (NCTF)], we asked: What were the goals for this exercise and how did they shap…
Transgenes and Transgressions
Although scholars in science and technology studies have explored many dynamics and consequences of scientific controversy, no coherent theory of scientific dissent has emerged. This paper proposes the elements of such a framework, based on understanding scientific dissent as a set of heterogeneous practices. I use the controversy over the presence of transgenic DNA in Mexican maize in the early 2000s to point to a processual model of scientific …
Transgenes and Transgressions
Although scholars in science and technology studies have explored many dynamics and consequences of scientific controversy, no coherent theory of scientific dissent has emerged. This paper proposes the elements of such a framework, based on understanding scientific dissent as a set of heterogeneous practices. I use the controversy over the presence of transgenic DNA in Mexican maize in the early 2000s to point to a processual model of scientific …
Imagining Ordinary Citizens? Conceptualized and Actual Participants for Deliberations on Emerging Technologies
In this paper, we explore conceptualizations of ‘ordinary’ citizens common in public engagement forums on emerging technologies and assumptions from deliberative theory that ordinary people are more likely to be appropriately ‘changed’ through deliberative processes facilitated by experts. Looking at a large US public forum event [the National Citizens Technology Forum (NCTF)], we asked: What were the goals for this exercise and how did they shap…
Dueling metaphors, fueling futures
Rooted in Recognition
The restoration plan for the American chestnut tree includes the potential wild release of a genetically engineered tree in close proximity to the sovereign Haudenosaunee communities of Central and Upstate New York. As such, inclusive deliberative frameworks are needed to consider the implications for these communities. Indigenous environmental justice highlights the importance of recognizing tribal sovereignty and Indigenous worldviews as founda…
Roadblocks to responsible innovation
The politics of genetic technoscience for conservation
Innovations in genetics and genomics have been heavily critiqued as technologies that have widely supported the privatization and commodification of natural resources. However, emerging applications of these tools to ecological restoration challenge narratives that cast genetic technoscience as inevitably enrolled in the enactment and extension of neoliberal capitalism. In this paper, we draw on Langdon Winner's theory of technological politics t…
Toward Platform Capitalism in Agrobiodiversity? Examining the Potential Challenges of E-Commerce Integration in Agrobiodiversity Apps
In recent years, citizen-driven initiatives have significantly transformed agrobiodiversity monitoring, exemplified by platforms like Wiki Papa and VarScout, which support Andean potato conservation in Peru. Wiki Papa serves as a curated repository documenting local potato varieties, while VarScout enables the collection of on-the-ground potato data from farming fields and Andean households. These platforms integrate citizen science with conserva…
Transgenes and Transgressions
Although scholars in science and technology studies have explored many dynamics and consequences of scientific controversy, no coherent theory of scientific dissent has emerged. This paper proposes the elements of such a framework, based on understanding scientific dissent as a set of heterogeneous practices. I use the controversy over the presence of transgenic DNA in Mexican maize in the early 2000s to point to a processual model of scientific …
Imagining Ordinary Citizens? Conceptualized and Actual Participants for Deliberations on Emerging Technologies
In this paper, we explore conceptualizations of ‘ordinary’ citizens common in public engagement forums on emerging technologies and assumptions from deliberative theory that ordinary people are more likely to be appropriately ‘changed’ through deliberative processes facilitated by experts. Looking at a large US public forum event [the National Citizens Technology Forum (NCTF)], we asked: What were the goals for this exercise and how did they shap…
Beyond Engagement Exercises
Exercises intended to engage laypeople in deliberations about emerging scientific and technological issues have become very popular in recent decades. These exercises are typically organized by political or intellectual elites, and often assessed in a top-down fashion as well. This paper disrupts that pattern by using a mix of complementary qualitative approaches to explore the experiences of citizen participants in a large exercise on emerging t…
Virtual deliberation? Prospects and challenges for integrating the Internet in consensus conferences
Consensus conferences have functioned well in small, relatively homogeneous countries such as Denmark. In the geographically sprawling and socially diverse United States, however, meaningful citizen deliberation and decision-making on science and technology depends upon the ability to bring more participants “into the room.” The National Citizens’ Technology Forum, held in March 2008, responded to this need by integrating panels of citizens from …
Engaging citizens
This paper contributes to ongoing discussions on democratic engagement through an exploration of citizen participation in two citizen consensus conferences on nanotechnology, one held in 2005 and the second in 2008. We analyze the factors that motivate citizens to participate formally in debates about emerging “high technologies” and consider demographic and related characteristics of the participants in these two consensus conferences and the re…
Information beyond the forum
During traditional consensus conferences, organizers control the formal information available to participants—by compiling structured background materials and recruiting expert panelists. Less formally, however, participants are encouraged to bring their own experiences into the deliberations, and in doing so, they often seek outside information. We explore this heretofore understudied phenomenon of information seeking during a deliberative event…
Roadblocks to responsible innovation
A roadmap for gene drives
The deployment of gene drives is emerging as an alternative for protecting endangered species, controlling agricultural pests, and reducing vector-borne diseases. This paper reports on a workshop held in February 2016 to explore the complex intersection of political, economic, ethical, and ecological risk issues associated with gene drives. Workshop participants were encouraged to use systems thinking and mapping to describe the connections among…
Mapping research and governance needs for gene drives’
KEYWORDS: Gene drivebiotechnologysynthetic biologygenetic pest managementgovernance of emerging technologies
Dueling metaphors, fueling futures
Rooted in Recognition
The restoration plan for the American chestnut tree includes the potential wild release of a genetically engineered tree in close proximity to the sovereign Haudenosaunee communities of Central and Upstate New York. As such, inclusive deliberative frameworks are needed to consider the implications for these communities. Indigenous environmental justice highlights the importance of recognizing tribal sovereignty and Indigenous worldviews as founda…
Social license and synthetic biology
In the wake of controversies over first-generation biotechnologies, the growing field of synthetic biology appears cognizant of the need to attend to the social, political, cultural, and ethical dimensions of innovation. Public engagement has emerged as an important means for attending to these dimensions. Here, we call attention to the problematic nature of one paradigm being drawn upon to conceptualize this public engagement for synthetic biolo…
The Decision Phases Framework for Public Engagement
Some experts and advocates propose environmental biotechnologies such as genetic engineering, gene drive systems, and synthetic biology as potential solutions to accelerating rates of species loss. While these tools may offer hope for a seemingly intractable problem, they also present potential governance challenges for which innovative decision‐making systems are required. Two of the perennial governance challenges include, when are broader stak…
The politics of genetic technoscience for conservation
Innovations in genetics and genomics have been heavily critiqued as technologies that have widely supported the privatization and commodification of natural resources. However, emerging applications of these tools to ecological restoration challenge narratives that cast genetic technoscience as inevitably enrolled in the enactment and extension of neoliberal capitalism. In this paper, we draw on Langdon Winner's theory of technological politics t…
Moving beyond narrow definitions of gene drive
Gene drive is an emerging biotechnology with applications in global health, conservation and agriculture. Scientists are preparing for field trials, triggering debate about when and how to release gene-drive organisms. These decisions depend on public understandings of gene drive, which are shaped by language. While some studies on gene drive communication assume the need to persuade publics of expert definitions of gene drive, we highlight the i…
Toward Platform Capitalism in Agrobiodiversity? Examining the Potential Challenges of E-Commerce Integration in Agrobiodiversity Apps
In recent years, citizen-driven initiatives have significantly transformed agrobiodiversity monitoring, exemplified by platforms like Wiki Papa and VarScout, which support Andean potato conservation in Peru. Wiki Papa serves as a curated repository documenting local potato varieties, while VarScout enables the collection of on-the-ground potato data from farming fields and Andean households. These platforms integrate citizen science with conserva…
Generative deliberation as anticipatory practice
Anticipation is a critically important dimension of responsible research and innovation (RRI) and can help shape research and innovation pathways. However, how anticipation is realized in practice is a relatively undertheorized territory. Our aim is to offer some clarity on how practitioners might think more concretely about the contributions of anticipatory practices, such as stakeholder workshops. In this article, we utilize the concept of `soc…
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