Keeping Autonomous Driving Alive: An Ethnography of Visions, Masculinity and Fragility

Hochschulschrift

Abstract: In 'Keeping autonomous driving alive', the author studies the relationships between researchers and artefacts held together by contested visions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a pioneering research project in Germany, he argues we can make sense of technological visions only if we simultaneously grasp the role of care, gender, and narrative in sustaining technological research. Instead of focusing on the genesis and expansion of sociotechnical assemblages, the book offers a radically new alternative to the study of visions. Building on literature from Science & Technology Studies, Science Communication, and Gender Studies, Göde Both investigates the ambivalence and fragility of technological visions, video demonstrations, and street trials in the hands of researchers invested in self-driving cars. Keeping autonomous driving alive will be of interest to sociologists and anthropologists of technology, gender, and mobility. It is essential reading for those concerned with uncer

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9783966659833
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 148 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Freie Universität Berlin. Institut für Informatik ; Autonomes Fahrzeug ; Robotik ; Projekt ; Innovation ; Kommunikation ; Performativität ; Männlichkeit

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2020
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Opladen
• (who): Budrich Academic Press
• (when): 2020
• Creator: Both, Göde

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-73000-4
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 15.08.2025, 7:25 AM CEST