I have a new paper out on #solarpunk and discussions of #technology! Read "Towards a Solarpunk Theory of Technology" along with the rest of the proceedings from the 2023 Solarpunk Conference:
@PeterKahlert and colleagues are hosting a panel in the #STSGraz24 conference's #OpenScience Track: "Hack the Hackathon: Challenges of Inclusion, Participation, and Fairness."
If someone has a thoroughly researched article on how the recent Tiktok flareup is materially different and more substantiated than the criti-hype around Cambridge Analytica some years ago I am interested #media#sts
ew Interfaces Essay Jan. '24 William Aspray "Is AI an Existential Threat? Let’s First Understand What an Existential Threat Is." provides a compelling analysis of existential threats & institutions studying them.
Hi @stsing, have spent the evening on scrutinising @stsing draft for the #stsingCodeOfConduct. This is an exciting read. Key issue for me: will we get at a version in which a non-stsing member can get into action the stsing ombudsgroup to investigate #AbuseofPower by an #stsing member against a nonmember?
I was asked if there are some films that would be interesting to watch in an #STS class, so here is what came to my mind:
– Mad Max Fury Road has rich worldbuilding around materials and actions (might be also interesting re:"Silence of the social" (Hirschauer))
-The Terminator movies seem to have influenced "what bad AI could do" ideas.
60s techno-optimism can be seen in Star Trek movies (maybe combine with Turner’s "Democratic Surround" and Jessy Gender’s Star Trek analysis?)
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📦 🚢 Wow, Supply Studies curated by @dochock has some neat stuff coming up in the spring!
"a speaker series bringing together scholars & organizers to discuss logistical justice & examine the possibilities of reconciliation in an era of #SupplyChain#capitalism"
Featuring not only me & @athena (a very special event for all you Union.Place fanpeople out there), but also @tamigraph, @bierjess & @miriamkp! Free to register & attend
"Race, and racial difference, was understood as the differential capacity to be plastic. Whiteness was fully malleable, fully capable of progress or decline, and blackness was at the opposite, barely plastic except for maybe a few years at the beginning of youth. This is the underlying scientific framework that holds children as key leaders for managing the racial body of the future." -Kyla Schuller interview
"Through analyses of evolutionary theories, gynecological sciences, abolitionist poetry and other literary texts, feminist tracts, child welfare reforms, and black uplift movements, Schuller excavates a vast apparatus that regulated the capacity of sensory and emotional feeling in an attempt to shape the evolution of the national population. Her work exposes how models of binary sex function as one of the key mechanisms of racializing power."
"Sex difference is itself a racial structure." To me this is one of those once-you-see-it-it-is-everywhere explanatory mechanisms. Impossible to think without it.
Caring for European Science & Technology Studies: EASST review 42(2) is out! #STS reports, postdoc life, decolonisation, extractivism, pollution, and a tribute to Evelyn Fox Keller.
Can anyone recommend a good, accessible (to students) reading on tech hype cycles? Not, ideally, a specific case, but a more general treatment of the phenomenon
Steven Jackson, @stefan_laser_, @sister0 and I invite abstracts to the panel "Planetary Data Infrastructures" at the @stseasst and @4Sweb 2024 #conference.
The panel explores expanded engagements with networked infrastructures, both concrete and speculative, that help foster more response-able, aesthetic, cooperative, and sustainable planetary relations.
> With the concept “planetary data infrastructures”, the panel explores expanded engagements with networked infrastructures, both concrete and speculative, that help foster more response-able, aesthetic, cooperative, and sustainable planetary relations. We invite conventional and experimental formats.
from "SpeculativeEdu, an educational project that aims to strengthen speculative design education by collecting and exchanging existing knowledge and experience whilst developing new methods in the field of speculative design"
Het interdisciplinaire top-team van School voor Sociale Wetenschappen aan Universiteit Hasselt is op zoek naar nieuwe ZAP ‘Communicatiewetenschappen en Digitalisering’, in de graad van docent (tenure track), hoofddocent of hoogleraar 👀
Functie is gericht op maatschappelijke aspecten van mediatechnologie en digitalisering #mediastudies#STS, met #digitalmethods als pluspunt 🤖