TY - JOUR
T1 - Emergent technologies against the background of everyday life
T2 - Discursive psychology as a technology assessment tool
AU - Veen, Mario
AU - Gremmen, Bart
AU - te Molder, Hedwig
AU - van Woerkum, Cees
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - To understand prospective users' reactions to emergent technologies, it is crucial to examine the interactional contexts within which these reactions take place as people's reactions are shaped by issues that are not necessarily related to science or technology. These issues are often overshadowed or remain blind spots when descriptions or scenarios of proposed technologies are thematized as being the core objects of reference. We therefore recommend also studying prospective users' everyday-life practices in their own right, and in naturalistic settings. Insight into the social actions people accomplish in their everyday talk, such as establishing a particular identity, can help innovators translate prospective users' concerns into relevant technology characteristics. We propose discursive psychology as an analytic tool to do this and show its merit with a few illustrative examples.
AB - To understand prospective users' reactions to emergent technologies, it is crucial to examine the interactional contexts within which these reactions take place as people's reactions are shaped by issues that are not necessarily related to science or technology. These issues are often overshadowed or remain blind spots when descriptions or scenarios of proposed technologies are thematized as being the core objects of reference. We therefore recommend also studying prospective users' everyday-life practices in their own right, and in naturalistic settings. Insight into the social actions people accomplish in their everyday talk, such as establishing a particular identity, can help innovators translate prospective users' concerns into relevant technology characteristics. We propose discursive psychology as an analytic tool to do this and show its merit with a few illustrative examples.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80055118770&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0963662510364202
DO - 10.1177/0963662510364202
M3 - Article
C2 - 22397087
AN - SCOPUS:80055118770
SN - 0963-6625
VL - 20
SP - 810
EP - 825
JO - Public Understanding of Science
JF - Public Understanding of Science
IS - 6
ER -