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Suh, Jee-Hyun;Won, Dong-Kyu
- Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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- 2007.11a
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- pp.183-187
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- 2007
During the recent decades in democratic and industrialized countries, government policies for governing technological innovation and risks to environment and human health have undergone significant changes. The shift from a top-down legislative approach to a more inclusive and deliberative atmosphere is, putatively the most prominent change. Such a move is often described as a move from government to governance. In the governance of technology and risk, public engagement has been a major strategy in technology decision-making process. This article aims to look into the changes in the procedural modes of technology decision-making process. It discusses the main viewpoints that have been placed on the basis of such a move. Also, it further relates the changes in local decision-making process to science and technology decision-making at global level. It argues that the democratic and reflexive trends in local science and technology decision-making will be the basis upon which to shape and respond to global governance system: while international decision-making process would require accountability in integrating different values and rationalities, such accountability may be sustained and reinforced depending on the robustness of the local decisions and social choices.
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Lee, Hyunok;Lee, Hyunju
- Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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- v.35 no.1
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- pp.169-177
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- 2015
Since socioscientific issues (SSI) reflect various characteristics of new technologies designed to meet the incessant human needs in the contemporary society, this study explores the feasibility of adapting nature of technology (NOT) to analyze students' socioscientific decision-making. To achieve the aim, forty-five college students enrolled in a liberal arts course on science and technology studies participated in the study and responded to a GMO (golden rice) scenario in a written form. Four major viewpoints were identified from their writing: 1) is the technological artifact able to solve a societal problem?, 2) are there some alternatives to solve the societal problem?, 3) what kinds of side effects or flaws could turn up during distribution and consumption of the technological artifact?, and 4) can we cope with the technological uncertainty? We revisited the viewpoints within the NOT framework (technology as a 'fix,' cultural context and role of values, technological trade-offs, technology as a system, and technological progression). As a result, unlike NOS, NOT were quite explicitly represented in their decision-making and students' level of understanding on NOT varied. It indicates that NOT can be a promising construct for cultivating informed SSI decision-making.
https://doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2015.35.1.0169 인용 PDF KSCI

Mun, Guk-Jin
- The Science & Technology
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- v.30 no.3 s.334
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- pp.26-27
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- 1997
현대의학은 눈부신 발전으로 인류를 질병에서 해방시키고 건강을 증진시키는데 역할을 한 것은 사실이지만 그 발전의 뒷면엔 상상도 못했던 새로운 질병, 사고, 사회적인 문제가 속출하고 있다. 첨단의학이 신비의 베일을 벗기는 데만 열중하고 사회 전반에 미치는 영향을 고려하지 않고 고집한다면 어려운 입장에 처하게 될 것이다.
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