Participating Despite Questions: Toward a More Confident Participatory Technology Assessment
Participating Despite Questions: Toward a More Confident Participatory Technology Assessment
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尽管有疑问仍参与：迈向更自信的参与式技术评估
DOI：
10.1007/s11948-011-9314-y
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
D. Guston
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作者：
D. Guston
虽然公众对新兴技术的审议的重要挑战是至关重要的，要记住，本文认为，学者和从业人员有理由对他们的参与式技术评估（PTA）的表现更有信心。从2008年全国公民的技术论坛（NCTF）的证据进行了纳米技术在社会中心在亚利桑那州州立大学，本文介绍了如何PTA提供了一个组合的密集和广泛的素质，是独特的参与模式。在国家反恐工作队，这种结合导致了重大的学习和意见变化，其基础可以被称为高质量的审议。解决新兴技术所需的预期知识的质量总是有争议的，但pTA的设计可以考虑到结果，特别是当学习被理解为一种结果时。
While the important challenges of public deliberations on emerging technologies are crucial to keep in mind, this paper argues that scholars and practitioners have reason to be more confident in their performance of participatory technology assessments (pTA). Drawing on evidence from the 2008 National Citizens’ Technology Forum (NCTF) conducted by the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University, this paper describes how pTA offers a combination of intensive and extensive qualities that are unique among modes of engagement. In the NCTF, this combination led to significant learning and opinion changes, based on what can be characterized as a high-quality deliberation. The quality of the anticipatory knowledge required to address emerging technologies is always contested, but pTAs can be designed with outcomes in mind—especially when learning is understood as an outcome.