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Keeping Autonomous Driving Alive: An Ethnography of Visions, Masculinity and Fragility
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Abstract In 'Keeping autonomous driving alive', the author studies the relationships between researchers and artefacts held together by contested visions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a pioneering research project in Germany, he argues we can make sense of technological visions only if we simultaneou... view more
In 'Keeping autonomous driving alive', the author studies the relationships between researchers and artefacts held together by contested visions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a pioneering research project in Germany, he argues we can make sense of technological visions only if we simultaneously grasp the role of care, gender, and narrative in sustaining technological research. Instead of focusing on the genesis and expansion of sociotechnical assemblages, the book offers a radically new alternative to the study of visions. Building on literature from Science & Technology Studies, Science Communication, and Gender Studies, Göde Both investigates the ambivalence and fragility of technological visions, video demonstrations, and street trials in the hands of researchers invested in self-driving cars. Keeping autonomous driving alive will be of interest to sociologists and anthropologists of technology, gender, and mobility. It is essential reading for those concerned with uncertainty in technological research and with conflicting demands in communicating science. The book provides scholars within the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, and automotive engineering a means of reflecting on their involvement in self-driving cars. Keeping autonomous driving alive offers science, technology, mobility, and automotive journalists a unique perspective on the present realities of a futuristic technology.... view less
Keywords
new technology; sociotechnical system; motor vehicle; automation; artificial intelligence; effects of technology
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Technology Assessment
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Publisher
Budrich Academic Press
City
Opladen
Page/Pages
148 p.
ISBN
978-3-96665-983-3
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed