Engaging Values Despite Neutrality
Challenges and Approaches to Values Reflection during the Design of Internet Infrastructure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337667 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katie Shilton (0000-0003-1816-6140, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 247-269 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243917714869 |
| OpenAlex | W2624693769 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 41 |
Internet protocol development is a social process, and resulting protocols are shaped by their developers' politics and values. This article argues that the work of protocol development (and more broadly, infrastructure design) poses barriers to developers' reflection upon values and politics in protocol design. A participant observation of a team developing internet protocols revealed that difficulties defining the stakeholders in an infrastructure and tensions between local and global viewpoints both complicated values reflection. Further, Internet architects tended to equate a core value of interoperability with values neutrality. The article describes how particular work practices within infrastructure development overcame these challenges by engaging developers in praxis: situated, lived experience of the social nature of technology
Engineering ethics · Interoperability · Knowledge management · Neutrality · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Public relations · Situated · Sociology · The Internet · Viewpoints · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Engineering · ICT in Developing Communities · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Law
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |