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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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!
@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.
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
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! #sts#history