Editor-in-Chief
Latanya Sweeney, Harvard University
Technology Science is a refereed online publication forum. Technology Science was formed because of a perception by the editors that no forum existed in which academic papers exploring the benefits and adverse consequences of social, political, organizational and personal aspects of technology were rapidly published, a condition the editors deemed necessary to encourage robust understanding about ways to harmonize technology and society.
The term "technology science" refers to the scientific study of technology's relationship to humankind. It is the study of naturally-occurring phenomena between uses of technologies and businesses, individuals, organizations, and societies. Studying technology science seems critical to navigating a future with fewer disruptions to technology investments, better informed policy decisions, and less unwanted erosion of societal norms.
The low cost and ubiquity of technology has resulted in unparalleled opportunities to violate, exploit, redefine, protect and enhance long-standing historical norms in all aspects of daily life. The rate at which new developments are forthcoming and adopted seems to outpace the ability of public interest to understand and affect possible outcomes. Published research, which ought to inform policy and regulatory discussions, has not been able to keep pace either. In part this occurs because research is time-consuming, but also because delays in ordinary print publication can exceed early opportunities to shape an issue. The fact that no publication forum exists for academic work on technology science also means that researchers in disparate application areas who encounter the same foundational problems have no effective way to share their insights, and the search for commonality among such problem is inhibited. Technology Science was established to alleviate these difficulties.
In general, it is useful to view issues in technology science as a competition between benefits of technologies and adverse, often unforeseen, consequences. For example, a video surveillance camera, despite its possible effect of enhancing security, is nonetheless viewed as a privacy-invading technology that may change historical social norms. A chip in the camera that de-identifies or encrypts human faces may address the unwanted consequence. The question whether such a chip can be built and whether it can perform its job effectively is a problem in technology science.
Today, there is a common false belief that in order for society to reap the benefits of new technologies, society must choose between innovative benefits or historical protections from harms. How can society enjoy new benefits without harms? Sometimes technology should bend to protect historical norms. Other times, historical norms need to evolve. Who decides? What should the decision be? The primary purpose of Technology Science is to promote these important investigations.
Latanya Sweeney, Harvard University
Ji Su Yoo, Harvard University
Robert Gellman
Rosalind Reid
Hal Abelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Abrams, JD
Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge UK
Annie Anton, Georgia Institute of Technology
Solon Barocas, Cornell University
Masooda Bashir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alvaro Bedoya, Georgetown University
Danah Boyd, Data and Society Research Institute
Travis Breaux, Carnegie Mellon University
NaLette Brodnax, Georgetown University
Cheryl Brown, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Ryan Calo, University of Washington
L Jean Camp, Indiana University
Julie Cohen, Georgetown University
Susan Crawford, Harvard University
Pam Dixon, World Privacy Forum
Benjamin Edelman, Harvard University
Batya Friedman, University of Washington
Urs Gasser, Harvard University
Nathaniel Good, University of California Berkeley
Jens Grossklags, Pennsylvania State University
Raquel Hill, Indiana University
Lance Hoffman, George Washington University
Anna Lauren Hoffmann, University of California Berkeley
Chris Hoofnagle, University of California Berkeley
Deborah Hurley, Brown University
Sarah Igo, Vanderbilt University
Shelia Jasanoff, Harvard University
Xiaoqian Jiang, University of California San Diego
Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas
Ian Kerr, University of Ottawa
Michael Luca, Harvard Business School
Colin Maclay, University of Southern California
Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington
Bradley Malin, Vanderbilt University
Andrea Matwyshyn, Northeastern University
Panagiotis Metaxas, Wellesley College
Darakhshan Mir, Bucknell University
Pablo Garcia Molina, Georgetown University
Tyler Moore, Southern Methodist University
Deirdre Mulligan, University of California Berkeley
Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University
Helen Nissenbaum, New York University
Frank Pasquale, University of Maryland
Sandy Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephanie Perrin, University of Toronto
Priscilla Regan, George Mason University
Sean Smith, Dartmouth College
Eugene Spafford, Purdue University
James Waldo, Harvard University
Danny Weitzner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen Wicker, Cornell University
Christopher Yoo, University of Pennsylvania
Jinyan Zang, Harvard University
Ethan Zuckerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University
Mercè Crosas, Harvard University
Lance Hoffman, George Washington University
Gary King, Harvard University
Edith Ramirez, formerly Chair of the Federal Trade Commission
Pascal Delpe-Brice, Harvard University