DDRIG: The Ethical Practices and Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Tech-for-Good

DDRIG：技术向善的道德实践和社会技术想象

• 批准号: 2240883
• 负责人: Roderic Crooks
• 金额: $ 1.51万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2240883&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DDRIG; Ethical; Practices; Sociotechnical; Imaginaries

This ethnographic study examines refugee tech initiatives with a focus on the actors involved in developing, deploying, and making use of various apps and digital platforms that address the challenges facing displaced people. The goal is to understand "tech-for-good" as an endeavor by empirically engaging with the ethical imaginaries and practices of the people developing and deploying such technologies in the context of transnational migration. In the wake of scandals and lawsuits against big tech companies, there is a broad recognition that high tech does not necessarily equal progress and positive change thus it is imperative to understand alternative technical imaginaries and ethical practices explored in this study. This project's results will provide valuable insights into different technical imaginaries for future technologists. Data will be made publicly available through the Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography, an online data-sharing platform.More specifically, the project focuses on the following research questions: What different ethical imaginaries undergird "tech-for-good" initiatives in the context of migration and displacement? How are ethical relations practiced by different actors in the development, launch, rollout, and continued deployment of "tech-for-good" initiatives? The researchers will address these questions by analyzing the media and promotional materials, as well as the digital artifacts themselves, alongside an ethnography that observes the practices as well as interviews that probe the ethical imaginaries that underlie actors’ "tech-for-good" initiatives. By attending to such initiatives in precarious and transnational spaces (rather than Silicon Valley companies or similarly elite tech spaces), the project will explore different ways "tech-for-good" practitioners develop and critically evaluate technical possibilities and hereby contribute to our understanding of the ethics of technology in practice.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项人种志研究考试的难民科技倡议专注于参与开发，部署和利用各种应用程序和数字平台的参与者，以应对流离失所者面临的挑战。目的是通过与跨国迁移的背景下发展和部署此类技术的人们的道德想象和实践来理解“技术上的善良”作为努力。在针对大型科技公司的丑闻和诉讼之后，人们广泛认识到，高科技不一定是平等的进步和积极的变化，因此必须了解本研究中探讨的替代技术想象力和道德实践。该项目的结果将为未来技术的不同技术想象力提供宝贵的见解。数据将通过平台公开用于实验和协作人种志（一个在线数据共享平台）。更具体地说，该项目重点介绍以下研究问题：在迁移和流离失所的背景下，女性“技术上好的”倡议的道德想象是哪些不同的道德想象？不同参与者在开发，发射，推出和继续部署“技术善良”计划中如何实践道德关系？研究人员将通过分析媒体和促销材料以及数字文物本身来解决这些问题，并进行人种志，该人种志观察实践和访谈，探讨了基于演员的“技术成员善良”计划的道德想象。通过在不稳定和跨国空间（而不是硅谷公司或类似的精英技术空间）中参与此类举措，该项目将探索不同的方式来发展和评估技术可能性，从而贡献了我们对技术的理解，并促进了我们对技术的理解，并以nsf的构建范围来贡献我们的理解。影响审查标准。