XavCC, to mastodon
@XavCC@todon.eu avatar

Dunbar-Hester, C. (2024).

Showing your ass on Mastodon: Lossy distribution, hashtag activism, and public scrutiny on federated, feral social media.

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13367/11436

First Monday, 29(3). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v29i3.13367

#Mastodon #Ethnography #STS #CreativeCommons
#Decentralization #Asstodon #Commodon

i_ngli, to sts
@i_ngli@assemblag.es avatar

On the way via @KAEEGoetheUni to @tudresden, where @stsing's #STSleakages conference is scheduled to start tomorrow for @sts @stsing. With a rich and full programme, and these #sts keynotes

#NereaCalvillo (University of Warwick)
“Aeropolis or the Words of Leaking Airs”

#AmadeM’charek (University of Amsterdam)
“Percolating Presence: Trailing Life and Death in a Postcolonial Landscape”

#ThaoPhan (Monash University)
“Listening to Misrecognition”

https://sts-leakage.org/

bart, to random Dutch

Now online: over three hours of constructive and engaging critiques of metascience and scientific reform practices, featuring Sven Ulpts, myself, Tom Hostler, Stephan Guttinger, @smirandafield, @nicole_c_nelson and @devezer. Grab some popcorn and enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o6Cabkj8lk #STS #metascience

cyberlyra, to random
@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io avatar

@zephoria and I wrote a joint paper about our work at NASA and at the Census bureau, on how withholding resources to govt technical agencies under the banner of “efficiency” undermines their legitimacy, even without a major catastrophe. #STS scholars and #sociologists, it’s #Failure in New Institutionalism meets Failure in #sociotechnical systems.

This one is open access — enjoy :)

https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/18894

stefanlaser, to random
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de avatar

Sharing special issue love: We invite contributions to discuss the mediation of knowledge practices and planetary matter through data infrastructures.

https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/announcement/view/689

inquiline, (edited ) to mastodon
@inquiline@union.place avatar

Friends, strangers, haters: I have... made hay. Let no one say I haven't committed to the bit.

(Wrote a paper about Asstodon, everyone be kind)

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13367/11436

#STS #Mastodon #Commodon #autoethnography #DareIUseTheHashtag #Donkeygate #FirstMonday

pdbrooker, to space

An interview I did about my work on "Living and Working in Space" has just gone live, be glad if those who were interested to take a look took a look!

https://faculti.net/living-and-working-in-space/

[PS, if you're on a PC and getting an un-poppable pop-up in the way, I found that sending the video full-screen was a way around that]

Let me know what you think, thank you!

#STS #Ethnomethodology #EMCA #Space #NASA #sociology

inquiline, to random
@inquiline@union.place avatar

What are people's favorite #STS readings in social studies of computing? (Every word there is important, but beyond that, interpret as you will)

(this is a teaching question, sometimes I get completely bored of my own headspace and want outside input)

#Commodon

bennett, to Health
@bennett@assemblag.es avatar

A hospital says a patient died… and it takes him years to correct the record; A new data tool promises to lighten workloads, but even more doctors & nurses burn out. What's going on here?

I reviewed Klaus Hoeyer's DATA PARADOXES for @hnet_reviews. It's a good book for STSers, but an even better book for anyone who's deciding whether and how to deploy data-collecting infrastructure, whether in medicine (Hoeyer's case) or any other domain

https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=60009
#STS #Health #Medicine #Data

JustCodeCulture, to history
@JustCodeCulture@mastodon.social avatar

Absolutely delighted that NYU MCC Prof. Mara Mills & UCSB Prof. Patrick McCray @LeapingRobot have signed on as new CBI @BabbageInst Research Fellows. Please see article link on these two incredible scholars!

@histodons
@sociology
@commodon
@historyofmedicine

https://z.umn.edu/cbifellows

tip_itu, to random

Ten days til the Danish STS Conference deadline. This year's theme is "Elegies of waste, surplus, and excess" - call for paper out here https://www.dasts.dk/?tribe_events=dasts-konference-2024-elegies-of-waste-surplus-and-excess with keynotes from Cara New Daggett, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Annemarie Mol #STS

sebgiessmann, to journalism German

So this is finally happening. It seems like “The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures Since 1832” will appear in , too. There's still some way to go until this makes its appearance in November. Next: proofreading.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550741/the-connectivity-of-things/

KathyReid, to technology
@KathyReid@aus.social avatar

Dark Printers - A post I wrote unpacking the concept of #DarkPrinters - after a #TootFic piece went unexpectedly viral.

#STS #Mediation #Technology

📷 CC-BY-SA by Christiaan Colen via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/GLCaJK

https://blog.kathyreid.id.au/2024/03/02/dark-printers/

inquiline, to random
@inquiline@union.place avatar

Rereading Steven Epstein for class and 😭

"Indeed, despite the suspicion of expertise that has become rampant in many quarters, people in advanced industrial societies do typically expect doctors and scientists to protect them from the effects of epidemic disease. The failure of the experts to solve the problem of AIDS quickly, as they were "supposed to" do, has heightened popular resentment and diminished the credibility of the establishment"

#STS

inquiline, (edited ) to random
@inquiline@union.place avatar

Listening to Susanna Lidström talk at UCSD Science Studies #STS about the Argos ocean sensing program. "Argos renders the ocean historical, and predictable"

jacobward, to history

Here's a podcast on New Books Network where I talk about (surprise surprise) my new book, 'Visions of a Digital Nation', and why Margaret Thatcher's 1984 #privatisation of British Telecom was a pivotal moment for both #neoliberalism and #digitalisation.

Podcast: https://newbooksnetwork.com/visions-of-a-digital-nation

Book download: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14210.001.0001

#histsci #histodons #history #sts #telecom @histodons @sts #tech #technology #historyoftechnology

Ch_Hogberg, to ai

I have a new article out in Big Data & Society

Standardization is promoted as a solution to achieve ethical AI. I attend to the tension between standardization and AI transparency. Overall, this article stresses the complexity of governing sociotechnical AI principles by standardization.

#AI #STS #governance #standards #transparency
@sts

https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241234298

rwg, to random
@rwg@aoir.social avatar

My colleagues at York (contract faculty, graduate assistants) are going on strike tomorrow.

They're asking for raises and back pay. For the past few years, the Ontario government has limited raises for university employees to 1% a year -- a law that has since been deemed unconstitutional. Many of my colleagues are using food banks or are otherwise scraping by.

Meanwhile, admins at York have enjoyed massive raises.

rwg,
@rwg@aoir.social avatar

Now, a grad program I'm affiliated with (Science and Technology Studies, ) is likely to suspend classes, as well.

In the meantime, admins are modifying our course management system to send messages about the "labour disruption" to students without our consent...

inquiline, to random
@inquiline@union.place avatar

I ❤️ that the #STS community (which is by any measure relatively small) has taken to Mastodon with great gusto. I really like that we are walking the walk with people-powered infrastructure here

#AcademicChatter

inquiline, to LosAngeles
@inquiline@union.place avatar

Nice discussion in class yesterday on the politics of non-driving in #LosAngeles and a student shared this Joan Didion quote:

inquiline,
@inquiline@union.place avatar

Inspired by our reading Sally Wyatt's Non-Users Also Matter. It's been a while since I'd assigned it but I feel like this essay has generated similar discussion in the past, for obvious reasons. #STS

bennett, to history
@bennett@assemblag.es avatar

The Gender Sci lab at Harvard is hiring a lab manager!

Good job for someone with project management grant-writing skills, who wants to work with a great #Feminist #HistSci / #STS team

https://www.genderscilab.org/blog/the-gendersci-lab-is-hiring-a-lab-manager

remixtures, to ai Portuguese
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org avatar

#AI #Infrastructure #STS: "This paper explores how AI policy documents mediate the stabilization of socio-technical assemblages. It does so by developing the theory-methods package of ‘discursive infrastructuring’ and applying it to the U.K.’s National AI Strategy. By centering the conceptual slipperiness of emerging technologies such as AI, this framework sheds light on how policy documents work to stabilize emerging socio-technical assemblages comprising specific actors, ideologies, flows of capital, and relationships of power. In the context of the National AI Strategy, discursive infrastructuring reveals how the document stabilises: AI as an autonomous and inevitable force; a technical/social dualism which privileges the technical over the social in driving innovation; the ‘heroic engineer’ as an individual, masculine and rational archetype; and, the U.K. as a dominant and modernising player on AI’s global stage. This assemblage does not only exist in the document’s words; it is translated into practice through the funding of institutions, the centring of technical pedagogies of AI, and the opening of visa routes for ‘globally mobile individuals’. The application of ‘discursive infrastructuring’ to the National AI Strategy thus elucidates the constitutive role of policy discourse in stabilising politically situated material-semiotic conceptions of AI."

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13568

sabinaleonelli, to datascience

Pre-job-ad announcement: soon advertising 2 x 3-year research posts to work with me & Ethical Data Initiative at the Technical University of Munich (really fun & supportive environment!). Closing date for applications 1st April, start in September. Pls spread the word! Details coming v soon #philsci #sts #hps #DataScience #dataethics

i_ngli, to sts
@i_ngli@assemblag.es avatar

Eventually managed to read #AyselSultan's @sts review in @sts_journal of Prasad Amit's (2023) Science Studies Meets Colonialism. Very helpful for my take on #STS as the review discusses how the book critically discusses #ANT #ActorNetworkTheory https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view/136097

tip_itu, to random

Simy Kaur Gahoonia is defending her PhD thesis at ITU today. She takes us back to 2018 when "technology comprehension" was put on the danish school syllabus, and millions of DKK were committed to a trial of the subject. In 2021, the subject did not become mandatory. #STS

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