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Institute of Network Cultures: My body, my traitor: essay in 10TAL
on January 10, 2020 at 10:17 am
Last year Swedish magazine 10TAL published an essay of mine about data mining, the body, and self-knowledge. Now, the English translation has been published too! Read the opening below or click through to the whole text: My body, my traitor […]
Institute of Network Cultures: Column – Take root among the stars: If Octavia Butler wrote design fiction
on January 9, 2020 at 10:19 am
Authors: Gabriele Ferri, Inte Gloerich “The Butler Timeline (BT) is a parallel universe where renowned speculative fiction author Octavia E. Butler engaged in a critical dialogue with researchers in human-computer interaction, shaping the […]
The Society for Social Studies of Science: <b>From Sideline to Frontline: STS in the Trump Era</b>
by dlkleinman@gmail.com (Daniel Lee Kleinman) on January 8, 2020 at 6:29 pm
The Trump presidency and its relationship to science and truth have prompted considerable reflection as well as significant action by STS scholars. Among those thinking, speaking, and acting are the authors of the articles in this thematic […]
The Society for Social Studies of Science: Science and Democracy Reconsidered
by josephh@bu.edu (Joseph Harris) on January 8, 2020 at 6:16 pm
To what extent is the normative commitment of STS to the democratization of science a product of the democratic contexts where it is most often produced? STS scholars have historically offered a powerful critical lens through which to understand the […]
The Society for Social Studies of Science: Hidden Injustice and Anti-Science
by lsmithdoerr@soc.umass.edu (Laurel Smith-Doerr) on January 8, 2020 at 6:16 pm
This essay responds to the five articles on Anti-Science in this journal issue by discussing a significant theme identified across all of them: hidden injustice. Some of the ways that injustice is hidden by organizational forces related to […]