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How Technologies Harm
A Relational Approach
Series: Studies in Social Harm
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Technologies contribute to harms in a variety of ways, but can we ever say they are harmful in-and-of-themselves? How Technologies Harm offers a new way to understand how technologies, while not intrinsically harmful, are laden with values and dispositions that can contribute to negative outcomes. Building...
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With the increasing influence of digital technologies on society, this timely book examines the ways modern technologies can adversely influence human perception and behaviour.
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Description
Technologies contribute to harms in a variety of ways, but can we ever say they are harmful in-and-of-themselves?
How Technologies Harm offers a new way to understand how technologies, while not intrinsically harmful, are laden with values and dispositions that can contribute to negative outcomes. Building on insights from postphenomenology, realist social theory and the philosophy of action, it provides a framework for examining technology-harm relations: relations with technology that are harmful by virtue of what they contribute to bringing about.
This book is for anyone seeking to design, regulate, research, or simply use technology in a way that prioritises well-being.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529247077
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 30 October 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Illustration: 2 Tables, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 266
About the Author
Mark A. Wood is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University.
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