Can We Trust Technology?

This book examines the contemporary crisis of trust, where people's trust in organisations and in emerging technologies is decreasing. It reconsiders dominant assumptions about trust, arguing for a shift in thinking away from motifs of trustable technology and toward motifs of trustable futures.

List of contents

Introduction
1: The Trust Conundrum
2: Thinking Trust
3: Stakeholders in Trust
4: Trust as a Connecting Thread
5: Trust in the Everyday Present and Future
6: Towards Trusted Futures

About the author

Sarah Pink is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Professor and Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab and FUTURES Hub at Monash University, Australia. Her recent books include Emerging Technologies/Life at the Edge of the Future (Routledge 2023) and the co-authored Design Ethnography (Routledge 2022).
Emma Quilty is a research fellow in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for The Elimination of Violence Against Women at Monash University, Australia. Emma's writing explores technology, power and gender and has been published in AI & Society, Mobilities, and Senses & Society.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah (Monash University Pink, Pink Sarah, Emma Quilty
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032717494
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3271749-4
• No. of pages: 104
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, anthropology;ethnography;technology;social trust;STS