The Role of Dialogue in Public Engagement with Emerging Technologies
Project dates:
September 2022 - March 2026
Name of the PhD student:
Iñaki Goñi
Supervisors:
Eugenia Rodrigues – School of Social and Political Science, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
Oliver Escobar - School of Social and Political Science, Public Policy and Democratic Innovation
Project aims:
This project investigates the role of dialogue design in shaping, discourse, normative content, and outcomes of public engagement with emerging technologies. Through a systematic review and comparative case study, Iñaki will construct a typology of dialogue designs and explore the influence of design elements on dialogue interactions and results. Of particular interest are how experts are incorporated, the definition of publics, and the conceptualization of facilitation. Iñaki asserts that we should regard dialogue as a 'public technology,' which helps to shape the political role of publics and frames technologies as public issues in specific ways.
Disciplines and subfields engaged:
Science and Technology Studies
Deliberative Democracy
Technology Ethics
Design Studies
Research Themes:
Ethics and Politics of Data
Ethics or Data Ownership, Governance and Stewardship
Emerging Technology, Health and Flourishing
Emerging Tech and Democratic Flourishing
Emerging Tech and Community Flourishing
Related outputs:
Publications and Presentations:
Goñi, J. (2024). What is “Dialogue” in Public Engagement with Science and Technology? Bridging STS and Deliberative Democracy. Minerva.
Goñi, J. (2024). Make it make sense: the challenge of data analysis in global deliberation. Deliberative Democracy Digest.
Goñi, J. Raveau, M., & Fuentes, C. (2024). ‘Analytical categories to describe imaginations about the collective futures: From theory to linguistics to computational analysis.’ Futures.
Goñi, J., Medina., A., Stormonth-Darling, J., & Stewart, J. (2024). Market research of existing Civic Technologies for participation. Edinburgh: Scottish Government.
Goñi, J. Raveau, M., & Fuentes, C. (2024). Analytical categories to describe imaginations about the collective futures: From theory to linguistics to computational analysis. Futures.
Zerilli, J., Goñi, J. & Masetti Placci, M. (2024). Automation Bias and Procedural Fairness: A Short Guide for the UK Civil Service. Edinburgh: BRAID.
Goñi, J., Rodrigues, E, Parga, M, Illanes, M & Millan, M. (2024). Tooling with ethics in technology: A scoping review of Responsible Research and Innovation tools. Journal of Responsible Innovation.
Diaz, F & Goñi, J. (2024) What expertise for whose and what democratic politics? Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society.
Raveau, M., Goñi, J., Rodriguez, J., Paiva-Mack, I., Barriga, F., Hermosilla, M., Fuentes-Bravo, C. & Eyheramendy, S. (2023). ‘Natural language processing analysis of the psychosocial stressors of mental health disorders during the pandemic.’ Npj Mental Health Research.
Cortázar, C., Goñi, J., Ortiz, A. & Nussbaum, M. (In Press) ‘Are professional skills learnable? Beliefs and expectations among computer engineers.’ ACM Transactions on Computing Education.
Hilliger, I., Goñi, J. & Cortazar, C. (2024). Trends Affecting Curriculum Reform in Engineering Education: A Scoping Review. International Journal of Engineering Education. 40(5).
Cortázar, C. Goñi, J., Ortiz, A. & Nussbaum, M. (2024) Are professional skills learnable? Beliefs and expectations among Computing Graduates. ACM Transactions on Computing Education.
Goñi, J. (In Press). ‘Breaking the deficit-dialogue binary with hybrids: Opening-up science-society models from the South.’ In Diversifying Theory in STS: Latin American Perspectives.
Grants and Awards:
Scottish Government grant to map out technologies of participation to design CivTech challenge.
In January 2024, Iñaki was selected to lead the evaluation of the Scottish Parliament's recent efforts to institutionalise deliberative democracy through Citizen's Panels.
From July 2023 to October 2023, Iñaki was selected to analyse citizen dialogues during the Chilean Constitutional Council to help draft a new constitutional proposal for the Country.
Other outputs:
Elected Council Member for the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
Selected as Associate Director of the Centre for Science, Knowledge and Expertise in Edinburgh (SKAPE)
Selected as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions in Technology in Society