Editing Life. How Sociotechnical Vanguards Craft Visions of the Future

Akademische Arbeit , 2019 , 13 Seiten , Note: 1

Soziologie - Sonstiges

This paper discusses the semantic tools used by technological frontrunners to establish imaginaries in the light of the development of the CRISPR/Cas9 technology. A grounded inspired theory approach is employed to untangle these tools, used in an interview with a leading proponent and researcher in genetic engineering, George Church. The analysis identifies three tools – narration, comparison and enticement – that technological frontrunners utilize to translate their ideas into a convincing vision that has the potential to be incorporated into the collective imagination of sociotechnical futures.

Contents

Abstract

1. Editing Life

2. Grounding Genetic Vanguards
2.1. Research Question
2.2. Material
2.3. Methodological Approach

3. Conceptualizing Biotechnological Imaginaries
3.1. Co-Producing Biotechnology
3.2. Sociotechnical Imaginaries in the Making
3.3. Sociotechnical Vanguards and Vanguard Visions

4. Imagining the Human Condition
4.1. The Tools of Imagination
4.2. Narrating the Past
4.3. Comparing the Present
4.4. Enticing the Future

5. Crafting Visions of the Future

6. Bibliography

• Hochschule: Universität Wien
• Note: 1
• Autor: B.A. Stefan Raß (Autor:in)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Seiten: 13
• Katalognummer: V1001845
• ISBN (eBook): 9783346377449
• ISBN (Buch): 9783346377456
• Sprache: Englisch
• Schlagworte: Sociotechnical Vanguards, Jasanoff, Gene Editing, Co-Production, Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Imaginaries, CRISPR, Hilgartner, Science and Technology Studies