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1741-6604
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This article develops a new approach to analysing the technology-harm nexus. The approach distinguishes between different technology-harm relations: relations with technology that are harmful by virtue of what they contribute to bringing about. In this article, I focus on categorizing generative harm relations: relations with technology that are harmful by virtue of what they do to actors. Drawing together insights from zemiology, moral philosophy, postphenomenology, Stiegler?s technophenomenology, and Latour?s actor-network theory, I distinguish six generative harm relations: ambient harms, alterity harms, exclusion harms, interface harms, harm translation and zemiosis. Distinguishing between these generative harm relations helps us delineate the techno-sociality of a range of social harms, from gun violence and digital coercive control, to forms of oppression, inequality and immiseration (re)produced by algorithms.
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Crime, media, culture, Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2005, 18(2022), 4, Seite 509-526, 1741-6604
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volume:18
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year:2022
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number:4
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pages:509-526
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1177/17416590211037384
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