morning, sociotechnical pals! I'm doing a foresight project and would like to interview social media researchers / digital sociologists / others with research interests in online social interactions and how these things might shake down over the next few years. Is that you, or someone you know? Let me know! #STS#DigitalSociology
Maybe none of these examples seem particularly shocking or "unimaginable". But it is precisely because this may appear so mundane, so "imaginable" that academia has a problem with abuses of power. #sts#WeDoSTS#ichbinHanna#ichbinTina@sts@stsing
@stsing@sts@stsing remember the stsing collab with the network against abuses of power in the sciences? They have now published 4 anonymized reports on abuses of power in #STS on their website. #WeDoSTS
📢 Celebrating that "Caring for Methods: 'Care-Ful Method Practice' through Methodography" by @i_ngli & I has been published today! 🎉
📖 In the chapter we advocate for methodography as a genre of care-ful interrogation of method practice in #STSethnography.
📙 The chapter is part of a beautiful collection concerning "Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas in Social Science Interventions" edited by @DorisLinnea & Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen.
Congrats to @laura4lano and Danya Glabau on their new book Cyborg being out soon with @mitpress !!
" Critical cyborg literacy foregrounds power dynamics and pays attention to the ways that social and cultural factors such as gender, race, and disability shape how technology is imagined, developed, used, and resisted."
#GoetheUniversity's #STSkitchen is closing, and people are re-membering the last 12 years, wonderful interactions @sts, with our friends and colleagues, conversations with Andrew Barry, Tahani Nadim, @racheldouglasjones (names mentioned so far) ;)
P300: Infrastructures, crises and transformation, hosted by Nina Amelung (Universidade de Lisboa), Huub Dijstelbloem (University of Amsterdam), @jhpassoth Silvan Pollozek
Call for guest editors! The open-access publication series Kulturanthropologie Notizen calls for proposals for the upcoming free issue 2026. Interested? Get in touch with me! #anthropology#STShttps://ka-notizen.de
“The making of critical data center studies,” Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper and Mél Hogan have finally published their piece in Convergence. Countering Truth made by Big Tech.
No reserved posts can be de-reserved: Education ministry clarifies on draft UGC guidelines
The proposal for de-reservation in case of Group C or D should go to the Executive Council of the University and in case of Group A or B should be submitted to the Ministry of Education, giving full details, for necessary approval, as per guidelines.
Draft UGC guidelines seek to open de-reservation window
The UGC has issued draft guidelines for de-reserving vacancies meant for SC, ST and OBC candidates in higher education institutes and open them up for the general category if enough reserved candidates are not available.
I’m a satisfied reader of Dominic Boyer’s new book “No More Fossils.” What a splendid excercise in energy thinking. Today, Dominic and Cymene published an episode of my favourite academic podcast discussing this very book w/ Cara Daggett. Cultures of Energy ftw.
We are hosting a panel in the #STSGraz24 conference's #OpenScience Track: "Hack the Hackathon: Challenges of Inclusion, Participation, and Fairness.
The conference is taking place May 6 - 8 2024 and, of course, in Graz, Austria.
You can find our call for abstracts (and others) here: https://stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/sessions-in-open-science/
@simulo@stsing@sts Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertonian_norms for a start. Note that the establishment of #STS in the 1970s has very much worked on problematising the Mertonian norms However, the normative context has not been so much addressed as far as I am aware
📢 The best practices working group of stsing e.V. is launching a collaboration with the Network against Power Abuse in Science to continue and broaden the conversation begun under the #MeTooSTS and #WeDoSTS 💪