Index

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Seth, A. (2022), "Index", Technology and (Dis)Empowerment: A Call to Technologists, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 219-224. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-393-520221012

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Emerald Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2022 Aaditeshwar Seth

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INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.

Aadhaar

system

, 25–26, 79–80, 120-121, 190-191

technology

, 23, 68, 114

Action research

, 73

for deployment management

, 87

Actor-Network Theory (ANT)

, 116–119, 168

Agriculture stacks

, 190

Algorithms

, 57, 64–67

algorithmic decision-making

, 65–67

algorithmic objectives

, 65

algorithmic self

, 64

Alienation

, 2, 138–144, 165

Anthropomorphic properties

, 61

Anti-capitalist license

, 150

Apathy

, 12, 69

Appropriate technology

, 28–29, 101, 127, 152–153

Arab Spring

, 116

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

, 38, 64, 74-76

need for deployment management for

, 87–88

Asilomar conference

, 46

Aspirations

, 17, 69, 140

Associational power

, 107–108, 110, 152

Atomized sub-tasks, 22-23, 74-76

, 142

Authoritarianism

, 17

Avaaj Otalo

, 77

Behaviour modulation

, 62–63

Biases

in data-driven algorithms

, 65–66

in inclusion and exclusion

, 93–94

Biometrics

, 79

Blockchains

, 150

Capabilities approach

, 45, 48

Capitalism

, 14, 17, 30, 135–136, 164

CGNet Swara

, 77

Chatbots

, 61

Civil society groups

, 153

Closed strategic action

, 162

Co-determination

, 107, 148

Collectivisation

, 23, 148

Collectivism

, 147–149

Commons-based management

, 152

Communicative action

, 162

Communitization

, 91

Community

embeddedness

, 91–92

media

, 88–89, 176–180

radio

, 176

COMPAS study

, 66

Competition

, 25, 52, 112, 157

debt-fueled consumption

, 16

economization of society

, 19

formalization, 16, 24, 35, 74-76

inequality

, 5, 13, 15–16, 19–20, 110, 139, 150, 153, 173, 188, 192

monopoly capitalism

, 21

neoliberal capitalism

, 13, 148

surplus value

, 3, 15

worker control

, 23

Consequentialism

, 41

Constitutive freedoms

, 44

Contemporary problems

, 9

answers

, 29–32

apathy

, 9–12

environmental technologies

, 18–19

social systems

, 12–18

society

, 19–21

technology

, 21–27

Conversation theory

, 167–169

Copyrights

, 136, 149

Corporate social responsibilities (CSR)

, 45

COVID-19

lockdown

, 11, 14–15, 178

migrant workers

, 11, 14

pandemic

, 25

vaccination scheduling

, 187

Critical design

, 83

Critical theory

, 49

Crowd-sourced indicators

, 95

Cybernetics

, 67, 117, 126, 162

Data

, 62–64

Datafication

, 64–65

Decision function

, 119

Definitions, Issues, Options, Decisions, and Explanations (DIODE)

, 47–48

Degenerative outcome

, 24

Deliberation

building blocks for

, 167

community media

, 176–180

conversation theory

, 167–169

evidence from media communications research

, 174–176

federated platforms

, 171–172

information evolution and usefulness

, 169–171

learning from small successes

, 172–174

to public action

, 174

Deliberative democracy

, 162

Democracy, 51-52

, 161, 164, 184

laws

, 180

media effects

, 175

public action

, 176

Democratic countries

, 13

Democratic systems

, 51

Demonetization

, 11, 24

Deontological ethics

, 40, 41

Deployment management, 58, 69-72

, 84

action research for

, 87

for artificial intelligence

, 87–88

Design

, 83, 85

action research for deployment management

, 87

managing socio-technical interface

, 97–101

methods

, 57

Mobile Vaani

, 88–97

need for deployment management for artificial intelligence

, 87–88

shortcomings of ethics by design approaches

, 85–87

Diaspora

, 150

Differential privacy

, 62

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

, 136

Digital public good platforms

, 25–26

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

, 136

Discretization

, 64

Docile bodies

, 114

Economic rationality

, 139

Editorial credibility

, 179

Education

, 191–192

Empathy

, 69

Empire

, 16

Environmental technologies

, 18–19

Equality

, 65

Equity

, 65

Ethical consistency test for technologies

, 76

Aadhaar system

, 79–80

Facebook

, 78–79

Mobile Vaani

, 77–78

Ethical definition

, 38

Ethical Design Toolkit

, 43

Ethical framework to examine technologies

, 59

algorithms

, 64–67

data and privacy

, 62–64

managing design

, 69–70

other frameworks for technology ethics

, 73–74

socio-technical interface

, 70–72

system design

, 67–69

theory of change

, 59–60

user interfaces

, 60–61

Ethical theories

, 39–42

Amartya Sen and John Rawls

, 6, 12–13, 39–40, 48

ETHICS methodology

, 47, 67

Ethics of informatization

, 74–76

Ethics-based foundations

, 57

constituent design elements and management practices

, 56

framework

, 55

Ethics-based methods

ambiguities through

, 38

consequentialist nature of social good

, 44–48

social good in

, 39–44

Ethics-based terminology

, 39–44

Ethos

, 147

Exclusion

, 70

Exploitation

, 76

Face recognition algorithms

, 66

Facebook

, 3, 57, 76, 78–79, 100–101, 150

Fair washing

, 135

Federated platforms

, 98, 171–172

Financial technology (fintech)

, 24

Fragmented organizational structures

, 133

Free and Opensource Software movement (FOSS movement)

, 151, 190

Free Software movement

, 143

Full-fledged participatory design process

, 86

GDPR

, 62

Gig-economy platforms

, 135

Github

, 150

Global North

, 14

Global South

, 14, 15, 16

Google

, 131

Google Alerts

, 172

Googlearchy

, 65

Gram Vaani team

, 178, 187–189

Ground-up discussions

, 179

Hackathons

, 136

Hacker ethic

, 143

Hippocratic license

, 150

Homomorphic encryption

, 62

Human access points (HAPs)

, 91

Human-in-the-loop methods

, 66–68

Humanism

, 48

Marx’s concept of

, 2, 138

Humanists

, 141, 146

Hypothetical mobile phone-based technology project

, 42

Immutable mobiles

, 117

Inclusion

, 70

Incursion

, 63

Independent Media Centres (IMCs)

, 172

India Digital Ecosystem of Agriculture (IDEA)

, 190

India Stack

, 136

Information ethics

, 153

Information evolution and usefulness

, 169–171

Information personalization

, 63

Informatization, ethics of

, 74–76

Institutional credibility

, 95–97

Institutional power

, 107–108, 110, 148

Instrumental freedoms

, 44

Instrumental values

, 44

Intellectual property (IP)

, 149

Interaction of Actors Theory (IAT)

, 168

Interactive voice response systems (IVR systems)

, 77, 89

Internal accountability

, 92–93

Internal feedback processes

, 98

Internal grievances

, 98

Internet of Things (IoT)

, 126

Khabar Lahariya

, 89

Know Your Customer (KYC)

, 24

Knowledge logic

, 65

Latent ambiguities

, 136

Logical formalism

, 75

Low-elevation road bridges

, 67

Lucas Plan of 1976

, 150–151

Machine ethics

, 39–40

Machine learning algorithms

, 65

Management practices

, 57–58

Marx’s concept of humanism

, 2, 48-49, 138

Mechanical-individual (m-individual)

, 167

Media

, 122

bias

, 172

broken mediums for participatory communication

, 163–167

and deliberation

, 161

evidence from media communications research

, 174–176

need for participatory communication

, 161–163

pluralism

, 165

Medical ethics

, 135

Meta-social good projects

, 50, 51, 161, 189

Meta-social good technologies

, 58

#MeToo

, 115

Microfinance

, 36–38

Microfinance Institutions (MFIs)

, 37

Mobile Vaani (MV)

, 76–78, 83, 114, 150, 173

background about

, 88–90

socio-technical interface

, 90–97

Monopoly capitalism

, 21

Moral buffer

, 65

Morality

, 162, 183

National Digital Health Blueprint

, 25

Neoliberalism

, 13, 148

Netmap

, 128

Network power

, 115

Network-making power

, 115

Networked power

, 115

Networking power

, 115

NewsCube

, 172

Non-coercive production

, 14

Non-violent license

, 150

Norm shaping

, 60–61

Nudging

, 60

Obligatory Points of Passage (OPP)

, 117

Observational control

, 114

Omlet

, 150

Open societies

, 165

Open strategic action

, 162

Organic intellectuals

, 140, 146, 183

Packaged intervention

, 35

Paradigms

, 7, 32, 185

Participatory communication

broken mediums for

, 163–167

need for

, 161–163

systems

, 184–185

Participatory design (PD)

, 85

Participatory methods

, 146

Patents

, 149

Peer Production License

, 151

Personalization

, 63

Platform cooperatives

, 111–112, 150

Plurality

, 77, 161

Political economy of technology

, 133–136

Post-colonial considerations

, 83

Poverty

, 12–13

Power

, 104

imbalance

, 85

infrastructures

, 113–116

levels

, 105–107

modelling power relationships

, 116–128

overcoming power differentials

, 107–108

power-based equality

, 103, 184

and social good

, 108–113

types

, 105

Power elite

, 110, 136

Power-over

, 105, 108–109, 111, 115

Power-to

, 105, 108–109

Power-with

, 105, 108, 110–112

Power-within

, 105, 108, 112, 119

Powercube modelling framework

, 127–128

Price of Inequality, The

, 14

Privacy

, 62–64

Proportionality tests

, 62

Psychological-individual (p-individual)

, 167

Public sphere

, 52, 163–165

collective action

, 159

community media

, 176–180

deliberation

, 174–176

democracy

, 167

diversity

, 170

federated network

, 172

public action

, 174–176

social accountability

, 176

social media

, 180

structural transformation

, 163

technologists and users

, 180–181

Qualitative auditing mechanisms

, 115

Quantitative auditing mechanisms

, 115

Quora

, 100

Rawlsian analysis

, 42, 44-45, 85

Recombinant DNA

, 46

Reddit

, 72, 100–101

Rediscovering Lost Values (J. King M. 1954)

, 183

Regulatory gaps

, 22, 52, 136–137

Resistance

, 138–144

Responsibility

, 134

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)

, 72

Revolutionary movements, need for

, 154–156

Rights-based approach

, 49

Robotics

, 61

Russell-Einstein Manifesto

, 46

Sampling bias

, 65–66

Sangeet Swara

, 77

Scaffolding algorithms

, 66–67

Self Help Group (SHG)

, 94

Sen’s concept of development

, 44

Slashdot

, 100

Social credibility

, 95–97

Social Development Goals (SDG)

, 34–35, 48, 109, 177

Social good

, 33, 103, 184

ambiguity

, 33–36

choosing values

, 48–53

consequentialist, 44-48

democracy

, 36, 52

ethics based methods

, 38

freedoms

, 43

future of technology for

, 157–159

microfinance

, 36–38

power and

, 108–113

projects

, 55

purposive

, 46, 125

resolving ambiguities through ethics-based methods

, 38–48

transformation

, 53

Social Impact Statements (SIS)

, 157

Social media

, 100, 122–123, 166-167

Social protection

, 15–16, 68, 110, 157, 178, 189–190

Social relationships

, 2, 48-49, 138–139

Social systems

, 12–19

Societal learning

, 184

Societal participation

, 52, 161

building blocks for deliberation

, 167–174

deliberation to public action

, 174–180

media and deliberation

, 161–167

Societal platforms

, 25

Societal power

, 107–108

Society

, 19–21

Socio-technical interface

, 70–72, 84

managing

, 97–101

Mobile Vaani

, 90–97

Software Development Impact Statements (SoDIS)

, 72

Startup toolkits

, 136

Status quo

, 145–156

Stereotype bias

, 66

Structural power

, 107–108, 110, 147

Structural violence

, 110

Structures and ideologies

alienation and resistance

, 138–144

differentiated values and priorities

, 132–133

fragmented organizational structures

, 133

political economy of technology

, 133–136

regulatory gaps

, 136–137

Subaltern, 69n1

approaches

, 83

Surveillance

, 62

System design, 57, 67–69, 116-128

Systematic bias

, 66

Systemic transformation

, 52, 58, 128

Systems thinking

, 67, 117–119, 191

Taylorism

, 21, 139

Technologists

, 58, 131, 143–144, 145–147

Technology/technologies

, 3, 21–27, 58, 104, 114, 145

as actant

, 126–128

addressing gaps in technology literacy

, 99

ethical framework

, 55

literacy and access

, 90–91

other frameworks for technology ethics

, 73–74

political economy

, 135

responsibility of providers

, 83

stacks

, 190

Terminal values

, 44, 45

Theory of Change (ToC)

, 56–57, 59–60

Theory of firm

, 148

Tools for conviviality

, 29

Trade unionism

, 148

Traditional intellectuals

, 141

Transformative social innovation theory

, 58, 128

Transparency technologies

, 150

Twitter

, 114

Uber

, 57, 68

Usage norms

, 94–95

User interfaces

, 60–61

design

, 56

Value sensitive design (VSD)

, 43, 86

Veil of ignorance

, 85, 113

Venture communism

, 151

Video Volunteers

, 89

Virtual agents

, 61

Volunteers

, 122, 178

Welfare schemes

, 121–122

Whatsapp

, 101

Whole Earth Catalog

, 143

Wikipedia

, 100, 143, 150

Workers’ inquiry method

, 140–142

Workplaces

, 133, 148