Sustainable technological citizenship

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2397937
AutoresG Valkenburg (0000-0001-7045-9878, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume15
Fascículo4
Páginas471-487
Data de publicação2012-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1368431011423605
OpenAlexW2330148646
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas38

As technology has the ability to displace power and politics, it needs to be at the centre of political concern. This article develops the idea that technological citizenship is an important concept in cultivating political sensitivity to technology. Rather than straightforwardly correcting for the displacement of power, technological citizenship must cultivate this displacement and engage with it through contestation. Drawing on insights from the critical theory of technology, this article reconceptualizes the political effects of technology as internal to both politics and technology design, rather than externalities. By recontextualizing, the critical theory aims to reshape the input space of technology design, and include a broader range of values. This conflation of the political and the technical shows remarkable parallels with the generic concept of sustainability. It is thus concluded that technological citizenship is essentially sustainable citizenship

Citizenship · Conflation · Economic system · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Externality · Operations management · Parallels · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sustainability · Technological change · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Law · Social Media and Politics