Looking through a responsible innovation lens at uneven engagements with digital farming
Looking through a responsible innovation lens at uneven engagements with digital farming
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DOI：
10.1016/j.njas.2019.03.001
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2019-12-01
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Bronson, Kelly
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本文通过对农业的关注，将社会科学研究扩展到大数据和数据平台上，农业受到的关注相对较少，如卫生等其他部门。在这篇文章中，我使用一个负责任的创新框架，将注意力转移到大数据“上游”的社会和伦理层面，以及农业数据选择和基础设施建设的决策上。我从对北美设计师和工程师的定性访谈中汲取原始的经验材料，以使他们的技术决策的规范性方面变得可见并进行分析。塑造创新的社会参与者持有一套关于良好耕作和良好技术的狭隘价值观，他们的数据选择通过专注于农艺作物数据和有机种植者无法使用的数据绘图，使大规模和商品作物农民获得了特权。让各种各样的粮食系统参与者参与进来，而不仅仅是已经强大的参与者，并关注更大的价值观多样性，将是支撑负责任的数字农业转型的关键。
This article extends social science research on big data and data platforms through a focus on agriculture, which has received relatively less attention than other sectors like health. In this paper, I use a responsible innovation framework to move attention to the social and ethical dimensions of big data "upstream," to decision-making in the very selection of agricultural data and the building of its infrastructures. I draw on original empirical material from qualitative interviews with North American designers and engineers to make visible and analyze the normative aspects of their technical decisions. Social actors shaping innovation hold a narrow set of values about good farming and good technology and their data selection choices privilege large-scale and commodity crop farmers by focusing on agronomic crop data and data mapping unusable to organic growers. Enabling engagement among a wide variety of food system actors, not just already powerful ones, and attending to a greater diversity of values would be essential to underpin a responsible digital agricultural transition.