We are looking for a scholar on the human impacts of digital technologies to lead our Academy for Transdisciplinary Studies. #job#STS https://bit.ly/3xN3M9E
I'm seeing a thing on my feed about the GOP now turning against polio vaccines, and look, please at some point start listening to #STS folks when we say that scientific facts not only require work in order to be made, but require work in order to keep extant.
The point of this isn't to undermine science, it's to save it. At some point after you've watched enough "indisputable facts" get pulled into dispute, maybe stop writing us off as the problem?
Please join us April 30th 2pm Central/3pm E. for the Tomash Fellow Lecture w/ 2023-24 Tomash Fellow MIT HASTS' Alex Reiss-Sorokin's "From Research to Search: Legal Research Technologies, 1964-1994." Register now! (free, required)
Call for papers about "AI and Resilience" for a special issue of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. This is an interdisciplinary call for a range of perspectives. Critical, humanistic, cultural, historical perspectives are all welcome => https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/62761/ai-and-resilience
still searching for the right term for something I emphasize a lot in a thesis chapter: how radio automation software still uses the tape cartridge as a {structural metaphor? virtual component? skeuomorph? process metaphor?} in its architecture. skeuomorph seems almost right but rings too ornamental/visual, when the organization of digital audio into "carts" has structural implications. any ideas? #softwarestudies#sts
We also have EXTENDED THE DEADLINE to the ECR summer school focused on academic writing and publishing led by Antti Silvast & Heta Tarkkala as editors of the journal Science & Technology Studies New deadline is April 12th.
More and more jurisdictions have policies saying that people who receive negative decisions made by or with the aid of algorithms should have a right to "appropriate grievance redressal mechanism" but the details are left unspecified. @naveena has just completed a study of (currently algorithm-free) application and contestation processes in the context of housing/land benefits in the US and India. Goal is to inform future tech design.
#STS#SiliconValley#Technocapitalism: "In Silicon Valley Imperialism, Erin McElroy maps the processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation that drove the development of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and how that logic has become manifest in postsocialist Romania. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley technocapitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents, and generates extreme income inequality in order to expand its reach. In Romania, dreams of privatization updated fascist and anti-Roma pasts and socialist-era underground computing practices. At the same time, McElroy accounts for the ways Romanians are resisting Silicon Valley capitalist logics, where anticapitalist and anti-imperialist activists and protesters build on socialist-era worldviews not to restore state socialism but rather to establish more just social formations. Attending to the violence of Silicon Valley imperialism, McElroy reveals technocapitalism as an ultimately unsustainable model of rapacious economic and geographic growth." https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism
No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. I do, however, have a lot of queer chickens. This is a painting of a hen-cock (c. 1900), a prize fighter, by English artist Herbert Atkinson. 🥚🐥🐔
"The single-point focus on global temperatures as a proxy of human welfare in the face of climate change has structured the latter's science and politics. What has been erased in the process are the effects of changing climate on regional and local phenomena, such as the Indian monsoon, which are better captured through everyday life experiences. These experiences are arguably much more important in mobilising societal action than global proxies."
Open Access PDF: Unser Buch über artenübergreifende Fürsorge ist freigeschaltet. Es handelt von der Fleischindustrie und den #Corona Lehren anhand einer Analyse öffentlicher Medien.
I’m hiring for a 2-year postdoc position for my project “Silicon Island” funded by the Danish research council, researching in/equities and tech futures in Newfoundland. The postdoc position focuses on policy practices relating to technology innovation & entrepreneurship.
Are there any #scienceAndTechnologyStudies people here? I'm looking for the history of the terms "doing science"/doing culture etc. I know it's Latour (did he ever use the term himself?), constructivism, doinggender, performativity, etc, but I can't find a source that elaborates on the development of this term. Does anyone have pointers where to look? I spent most of my work day looking through sociology and sts books and papers...
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