Cynthia Selin
Biographic Data
| ID | 447146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Selin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Selin |
| SIGNATURE | SELIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Seven open questions in the futures of human genome editing
Stakeholder inclusion in scenario planning—A review of European projects
Experiments in engagement: Designing public engagement with science and technology for capacity building
Public engagement with science and technology is now widely used in science policy and communication. Touted as a means of enhancing democratic discussion of science and technology, analysis of public engagement with science and technology has shown that it is often weakly tied to scientific governance. In this article, we suggest that the notion of capacity building might be a way of reframing the democratic potential of public engagement with s…
Seeing the city: Photography as a place of work
Merging art and design in foresight: Making sense of Emerge
Studying Emerge: Findings from an event ethnography
Scenarios and design: Scoping the dialogue space
Introduction to the special issue in futures on design and scenarios
Plausibility and probability in scenario planning
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore extant distinctions between plausibility and probability in scenario planning and re-frame the either/or stance in the literature within a broader set of methodological choice possibilities. Design/methodology/approach – The paper surveys the history of both terms in both the English language and more narrowly within scenario planning, critically assessing the confusions that have arisen. The pape…
On not forgetting futures
In his discussion paper “Responsible innovation, the art and craft of anticipation”, Nordmann (2014) critiques the anticipatory stance of some contemporary forms of technology assessment. His scept
Nanotechnology in the City: Sustainability Challenges and Anticipatory Governance
Visions about the use of nanotechnologies in the city, including in the design and construction of built environments, suggest that these technologies could be critically important for solving urban sustainability problems. We argue that such visions often overlook two critical and interrelated elements. First, conjectures about future nano-enhanced cities tend to rely on flawed concepts of urban sustainability that underestimate the challenges p…
Finding Futures: A Spatio-Visual Experiment In Participatory Engagement
The Finding Futures Project explores innovative ways of deliberating the future of cities through an emphasis on embodied spatio-visual engagement with urban landscapes. The first instantiation of the project - which took place in Lisbon in 2011 - is reported through a discussion of the project's background, methods and outcomes
Energy Futures: Five Dilemmas of the Practice of Anticipatory Governance
Public participation has become standard practice in both environmental communication and science and technology studies, with such engagement increasingly moving “upstream” to the early stages of technological development. One framework for these activities is anticipatory governance, in which foresight and public and stakeholder engagement are used to reflect on—and direct—the impacts of new technology. In this essay we draw on our experience o…
Citizen engagement and urban change: Three case studies of material deliberation
Envisioning nanotechnology: New media and future-oriented stakeholder dialogue
The Sociology of the Future: Tracing Stories of Technology and Time
The sociology of the future is an emerging field of inquiry that works to understand future consciousness drawing from a mix of Science & Technology Studies and the practice of foresight. Through an exploration of the theories, methodologies, and quagmires of anticipation employed in the study of nanotechnology, this piece introduces the sociology of the future and suggests some ways the field is taking definition. Exploring the future tense prov…
Expectations and the Emergence of Nanotechnology
Although nanotechnology is often defined as operations on the 10-9 meters, the lack of charisma in the scale-bound definitions has been fortified by remarkable dreams and alluring promises that spark excitement for nanotechnology. The story of the rhetorical development of nanotechnology reveals how speculative claims are powerful constructions that create legitimacy in this emerging technological domain. From its inception, nanotechnology has be…
Trust and the illusive force of scenarios
Time Matters: Temporal harmony and dissonance in nanotechnology networks
Temporally bound concepts operate regularly yet opaquely in the management of new technologies. Emerging technologies are particularly caught in time and can be said to be in a process of becoming. Yet works concerned with innovation tend to leave time black-boxed as the future, the past and a now. What is missing is a recognition and confrontation of the diversity of temporal horizons and, more broadly, the constructions of time that are negotia…
The Sociology of the Future: Tracing Stories of Technology and Time
The sociology of the future is an emerging field of inquiry that works to understand future consciousness drawing from a mix of Science & Technology Studies and the practice of foresight. Through an exploration of the theories, methodologies, and quagmires of anticipation employed in the study of nanotechnology, this piece introduces the sociology of the future and suggests some ways the field is taking definition. Exploring the future tense prov…
Trust and the illusive force of scenarios
Expectations and the Emergence of Nanotechnology
Although nanotechnology is often defined as operations on the 10-9 meters, the lack of charisma in the scale-bound definitions has been fortified by remarkable dreams and alluring promises that spark excitement for nanotechnology. The story of the rhetorical development of nanotechnology reveals how speculative claims are powerful constructions that create legitimacy in this emerging technological domain. From its inception, nanotechnology has be…
Time Matters: Temporal harmony and dissonance in nanotechnology networks
Temporally bound concepts operate regularly yet opaquely in the management of new technologies. Emerging technologies are particularly caught in time and can be said to be in a process of becoming. Yet works concerned with innovation tend to leave time black-boxed as the future, the past and a now. What is missing is a recognition and confrontation of the diversity of temporal horizons and, more broadly, the constructions of time that are negotia…
Citizen engagement and urban change: Three case studies of material deliberation
Scenarios and design: Scoping the dialogue space
Merging art and design in foresight: Making sense of Emerge
Studying Emerge: Findings from an event ethnography
Finding Futures: A Spatio-Visual Experiment In Participatory Engagement
The Finding Futures Project explores innovative ways of deliberating the future of cities through an emphasis on embodied spatio-visual engagement with urban landscapes. The first instantiation of the project - which took place in Lisbon in 2011 - is reported through a discussion of the project's background, methods and outcomes
Envisioning nanotechnology: New media and future-oriented stakeholder dialogue
Introduction to the special issue in futures on design and scenarios
Trust and the illusive force of scenarios
Time Matters: Temporal harmony and dissonance in nanotechnology networks
Temporally bound concepts operate regularly yet opaquely in the management of new technologies. Emerging technologies are particularly caught in time and can be said to be in a process of becoming. Yet works concerned with innovation tend to leave time black-boxed as the future, the past and a now. What is missing is a recognition and confrontation of the diversity of temporal horizons and, more broadly, the constructions of time that are negotia…
Expectations and the Emergence of Nanotechnology
Although nanotechnology is often defined as operations on the 10-9 meters, the lack of charisma in the scale-bound definitions has been fortified by remarkable dreams and alluring promises that spark excitement for nanotechnology. The story of the rhetorical development of nanotechnology reveals how speculative claims are powerful constructions that create legitimacy in this emerging technological domain. From its inception, nanotechnology has be…
The Sociology of the Future: Tracing Stories of Technology and Time
The sociology of the future is an emerging field of inquiry that works to understand future consciousness drawing from a mix of Science & Technology Studies and the practice of foresight. Through an exploration of the theories, methodologies, and quagmires of anticipation employed in the study of nanotechnology, this piece introduces the sociology of the future and suggests some ways the field is taking definition. Exploring the future tense prov…
Envisioning nanotechnology: New media and future-oriented stakeholder dialogue
Energy Futures: Five Dilemmas of the Practice of Anticipatory Governance
Public participation has become standard practice in both environmental communication and science and technology studies, with such engagement increasingly moving “upstream” to the early stages of technological development. One framework for these activities is anticipatory governance, in which foresight and public and stakeholder engagement are used to reflect on—and direct—the impacts of new technology. In this essay we draw on our experience o…
Citizen engagement and urban change: Three case studies of material deliberation
Nanotechnology in the City: Sustainability Challenges and Anticipatory Governance
Visions about the use of nanotechnologies in the city, including in the design and construction of built environments, suggest that these technologies could be critically important for solving urban sustainability problems. We argue that such visions often overlook two critical and interrelated elements. First, conjectures about future nano-enhanced cities tend to rely on flawed concepts of urban sustainability that underestimate the challenges p…
Finding Futures: A Spatio-Visual Experiment In Participatory Engagement
The Finding Futures Project explores innovative ways of deliberating the future of cities through an emphasis on embodied spatio-visual engagement with urban landscapes. The first instantiation of the project - which took place in Lisbon in 2011 - is reported through a discussion of the project's background, methods and outcomes
Plausibility and probability in scenario planning
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore extant distinctions between plausibility and probability in scenario planning and re-frame the either/or stance in the literature within a broader set of methodological choice possibilities. Design/methodology/approach – The paper surveys the history of both terms in both the English language and more narrowly within scenario planning, critically assessing the confusions that have arisen. The pape…
On not forgetting futures
In his discussion paper “Responsible innovation, the art and craft of anticipation”, Nordmann (2014) critiques the anticipatory stance of some contemporary forms of technology assessment. His scept
Seeing the city: Photography as a place of work
Merging art and design in foresight: Making sense of Emerge
Studying Emerge: Findings from an event ethnography
Scenarios and design: Scoping the dialogue space
Introduction to the special issue in futures on design and scenarios
Experiments in engagement: Designing public engagement with science and technology for capacity building
Public engagement with science and technology is now widely used in science policy and communication. Touted as a means of enhancing democratic discussion of science and technology, analysis of public engagement with science and technology has shown that it is often weakly tied to scientific governance. In this article, we suggest that the notion of capacity building might be a way of reframing the democratic potential of public engagement with s…
Stakeholder inclusion in scenario planning—A review of European projects
Seven open questions in the futures of human genome editing
Sociology (16 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Futures contract (9 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Engineering ethics (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (6 works) · Economics (5 works)