Shaping Technology, Guiding Policy : Concepts, Spaces, and Tools

by Sorensen, Knut H.; Williams, Robin

• ISBN13: 9781840646498
• ISBN10: 1840646497
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
PART ONE: OVERVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY
Introduction	3	(16)
Robin Williams
Social Shaping on the Move? On the Policy Relevance of the Social Shaping of Technology Perspective	19	(18)
Knut H. Søorensen
Social Shaping of Technology: Frameworks, Findings and Implications for Policy with Glossary of Social Shaping Concepts	37	(96)
Stewart Russell
Robin Williams
Concepts, Spaces and Tools for Action? Exploring the Policy Potential of the Social Shaping Perspective	133	(22)
Stewart Russell
Robin Williams
Identifying Loci for Influencing the Dynamics of Technological Development	155	(18)
Arie Rip
Johan W. Schot
The Cultural Shaping of Technologies and the Politics of Technodiversity	173	(24)
Werner Rammert
PART TWO: NEW TOOLS FOR ANALYSING AND INTERVENING
Arenas of Development: A Space Populated by Actor-worlds, Artefacts, and Surprises	197	(26)
Ulrik Jørgensen
Ole Sørensen
Spaces and Occasions in the Social Shaping of Information Technologies: The Transformation of IT Systems for Manufacturing in a Danish Context	223	(26)
Christian Clausen
Christian Koch
Feminism for Profit? Public and Private Gender Politics in Multimedia	249	(44)
Hendrik Spilker
Knut H. Sørensen
Governing Measures: User-stories and Heat Pump Subsidies	271
Pål Nœsje
Restructuring the Power Arena in Denmark: Shaping Markets, Technology and Environmental Priorities	293	(32)
Ulrik Jørgensen
Lars Strunge
The Political Control of Large Socio-technical Systems: New Concepts and Empirical Applications from a Multi-disciplinary Perspective	325	(34)
K. Matthias Weber
Towards Sociotechnical Scenarios and Reflexive Anticipation: Using Patterns and Regularities in Technology Dynamics	359	(28)
Frank W. Geels
Index	387