 The Power of Framing in Technology Governance: The Case of Biotechnologies (ITA-manu:script 13-01)Helge Torgersen, Alexander Bogner and Karen Kastenhofer ITA manu:scripts from Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) Abstract: In past technology controversies, aspects such as risk or ethics have played a major role, apart from economic arguments. Public debates on agricultural biotechnology or biomedicine differed in the dominant aspect they addressed, respectively. This article specifies such aspects as discursive frames being tacit agreements over what is relevant and which arguments count. It investigates the role of frames in past debates and the relation between frames and issues relevant for technology governance such as policy advice, public participation and the political legitimation of decisions. For a newly emerging technology such as synthetic biology, the framing of a debate to come is often expected to follow patterns known from previous debates, and to influence governance in a foreseeable way. However, new frames might emerge that could change both the debate on and the governance of emerging technologies. Keywords: Discursive-frames; biotechnology; emerging-technologies; technology-controversies; technology-governance; risk; ethics (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ita:itaman:13_01 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in ITA manu:scripts from Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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