How Technologies Harm

A Relational Approach

Mark A. Wood (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2025
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529247077 (ISBN)

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Technologies contribute to harms in a variety of ways, but can we ever say they are harmful in-and-of-themselves?

This book offers a new way to understand how technologies, while not intrinsically harmful, are laden with values and dispositions that can contribute to negative outcomes. Building on insights from postphenomenology, realist social theory and the philosophy of action, it provides a framework for examining technology-harm relations: relations with technology that are harmful by virtue of what they contribute to bringing about. It is for anyone seeking to design, regulate, research or simply use technology in a way that prioritizes well-being.

Mark A. Wood is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University.

Introduction

PART I: Understanding Harm

1. What Is Social Harm?

2. The Nature of Harm

PART II: Understanding Technology

3. Instruments, Extensions, Affordances

4. Technology as Practice and Actant

5. Postphenomenology and Technological Mediation

PART III: The Technology–Harm Relations Framework

6. An Overview of the Framework

7. Design Modes

8. Translation, Infusion, Zemiosis

9. Doing Harm with Things

10. Harms Beyond Use

11. Higher-order Harm Relations

Conclusion: Pulling at the Threads of Enmeshment

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Social Harm
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781529247077 / 9781529247077
Zustand	Neuware