#STS
Today’s reads:
🧫 "The sociology of a genetic engineering technique" (Jordan, Lynch)
🧶 "A game of cat's cradle" (Haraway)
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to join a panel on the politics of open infrastructures at the STS Austria Conference 2023. I presented the @openwebsearcheu project and its approach to create an ethical and alternative web search infrastructure.
The Politics of Open Infrastructures
http://www.sts-austria.org/2023/10/13/the-politics-of-open-infrastructures/
STS Austria Conference 2023
http://www.sts-austria.org/2023/10/13/sts-austria-conference-2023-digging-where-we-stand-activism-community-and-the-politics-of-sts/
#STS research
Go EASST 2024 Amsterdam | Panel by Claudia Göbel and me on:
Re:organizing science in society. Organizations as sites and agencies of social transformation
Asking: How can the notion of organization be used to study and shape current societal transformations?
Will #STS and #organization scholars find a common language? Translations welcome, for paper proposals visit:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14181
📢 Are you a #STS researcher planning to attend #EASST4S2024 in Amsterdam? Look no further, this panel, which is currently calling for papers, concerns all of you and us as a community, as it deals with how #WeDoSTS (better).
🛤️ #WeDoSTS stands for transformative ways of embodying radical reflexivity & scientific integrity in STS. The panel welcomes contributions & activities that study &/or situate themselves within the #WeDoSTS movement.
📢 Join us at #EASST4S2024 in Amsterdam to discuss digital fieldwork and 'Careful method practice in/of digitized worlds through Methodography' with us. I am delighted to be working again with Frauke Rohden @fraukero & Sylvia Lysgård for this panel. Please get in touch with any questions.
👁️ We look forward to receiving abstracts and creating a space for the exchange of diverse digital fieldwork approaches in #STS.
Join the CAFS Board!
#Food #FoodStudies #Academia #HigherEd #GetInvolved #Volunteer #BoardMember #PhDLife #AcademicChatter #FoodPolitics #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodInsecurity #Nutrition #Sociology #Geography #Anthropology #STS #Foodie #Foodies #FoodWays
https://foodstudies.info/recruiting-cafs-board-members-2023-25-2/
Ok who of yall has embedded with this project and done some #STS shit about it
Join us for #EASST4S2024 in Amsterdam to discuss: *Scientific cultures in conflict and transition: Studying #reform in action* | @alexrushforth & @nicole_c_nelson
We welcome papers from all across the #metasci and #sts communities. 1/ https://www.easst4s2024.net/open-panels/#14191
Considering going to Amsterdam for #easst4s24? Our panel 'The Human' in Human-Centred Innovation and #STS is among the 390 accepted panels and is eagerly expecting your abstract
@easst @AndersKMunk @taschn
Some days most of what you get done is spend the afternoon racking your brains for a reference, but then you finally get it:
Latina/o/e technoscience: Labor, race, and gender in cybernetics and computing by Iván Chaar López
The article follows closely the role of Arturo Rosenblueth in development of cybernetics & of Mexican women workers in computer semiconductor assembly.. Latina/o/es as unaccounted entities in the infrastructural assemblage of cybernetics
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127221108515
Just listened to a very interesting talk on Linux & IBM, excavating the corporate underwriting of #FOSS development, by Davide Carpano at UCSD Science Studies. This is a published companion piece, "Chromium as a tool of logistical power: A material political economy of open-source"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20539517231182399
@easst the
European STS /4S conference is in Amsterdam next year and is now open for abstracts. There are some fab panels this year. We - Noopur Raval, Mashinka Hakopian, Xiaowei Wang Ranjit Singh and Shazeda Ahmed and I - have a panel proposed and accepted : P115. www.easst4s2024.net/open-panels/ #4S #easst #sts
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/
Or download it directly as pdf here: https://mycloud.europa-uni.de/s/Mg8qmGrEGAJwAqM
You are invited to submit your research and share it with your colleagues. Looking forward to your contributions. See you at the venue! ;)
In this new paper on data journeys, the authors draw on the concept of domestication to show how data are made usable at sites of reuse:
https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127231212506
Based on ethnographic fieldwork at two sites of biomedical research, the authors identify four dimensions to data domestication: storytelling, standardization, formatting and cultivation.
The study stresses the importance of local settings for data work, even in a global data economy.
I am looking forward to two stimulating days at the “Mining Matters” workshop at #utwente : https://www.utwente.nl/en/sustainability/climate-centre/events/2023/11/1218824/workshop-mining-matters #PhilTech #STS
excellent, excellent lecture: "Slaving Science: Natural Historical Collecting and the British Slave Trade" by Dr. Kate Murphy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM4qUleVO84
context: biological specimens of plants, insects, birds, skeletons, etc., were crucial to early western science. those early scientists were on an encyclopedic mission (wanting to know about all kinds of stuff from all over the world) & very few people got to travel, so receiving a specimen of, like, an ostrich egg from very far away could be a huge deal for an early scientist in england.
these specimens were often pulled together into collections owned by wealthy collectors, and many of these private collections formed the starting collections of large national institutions that are for-the-most-part still around, and still educating millions of people...like the british museum.
in fact, if you ever went to a museum of natural history & saw biological specimens, you've been a part of this history (in a small way).
herbaria were important places for the development of early *botanical* knowledge. i've actually been to an herbarium! at duke university, of all places. it was a wonderful place that smelled like tea, where thousands of dried plant samples were pressed between pages of huge books.
anyway, back when western scientists were developing taxonomies & basic understandings of plant biology (like the various parts of plants & their functions), herbaria were really important.
yea, it might suck to try & understand what's going on with a flattened, dried, little patch of some grass, but at least you could look at the actual *plant* & not just a drawing.
also, herbaria still provide value in botany because you can take small samples & do genetic analysis, or whatever other kind of analysis you want. the fact that they're historic specimens means that a scientist can do historic analysis as well. so these old samples are not just relics.
how these samples ended up in western herbaria is a very interesting question. there's a colonial romantic image of a "plant hunter" on a "collecting expedition". he's (it's almost always a 'he') single-minded, dedicated, unafraid, adventurous, and *doing it for science*. it has its appeal! that's why i call it the colonial romantic - it has a romance about it, but there's a nerdy purity too. i mean, it's indiana jones, right?
but that's not how it really happened (surprise!). if you know much about how things (and people) from around the world ended up in england (and its colonies, like america), you know that it was basically always a total nightmare.
these colonials were engaged in a project of moving people, plants, animals, and specimens all around the world, like pieces on a chess board.
so, a slave ship might be carrying enslaved people, but it might also be carrying live plant specimens, live animal specimens, seeds, nuts, dried plants, fossils, butterflies, & all kinds of other stuff.
and that's what this talk is about: how, exactly early science was related to the slave-trading industry of england, specifically.
on a personal note, i live in hawai'i, a place where you can see *literally in what grows on the land and in what people are here* the effects of that colonial project of moving around people, plants, and animals. so if i ever start to wonder "hey, how did tree x end up on the island?" maybe it was brought as part of a plantation project. and if you meet a third generation japanese or filipino person on the island, their grandparents might have been brought over as workers for a plantation, part of that exact same colonial project. so all of us are still very much living in the world created by this global colonial project of places like england, spain, portugal, etc.
every time i look into how colonial powers moved plants around, i see that that movement was intimately tied to the goals and material reality of slavery, colonialism, and imperialism.
it's a hard history to look at, but it is real.
#plants #science #STS #ScienceHistory #botany #slavery #history
Doing science in times of climate breakdown. https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/doing-science-in-times-of-climate-breakdown
blogpost from the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University.
@pvonhellermannn don’t trust the #privateSector with optimising for the environment. They can maximally be expected to optimise for selling #greenness. We have to expect, the private sector will ignore all environmental implications they can get away with, i.e. externalise as much as possible within any #internalisation project. #EnvironmentalEconomics
My @sts #STS take on #carbon in the #finance #industry is @bigdatasoc at https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716673390
Keeping Sessions Short In AWS Assume-Role
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ACM.364 Deploying resources with a job that requires MFA in a container with a short-lived session
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#AWS #Cloud #Security #STS #Session #AssumeRole
https://medium.com/cloud-security/keeping-sessions-short-in-aws-assume-role-010b1b053ccb
This was a part of our cozy hybrid workshop in Bochum on data infra, knowledge creation and planetary matter. Thanks to all participants for a great experience,
@mel_hogan @Aepasek @tschuetz @laurawatts and more!
Subsurface surfing. With the help of the maintenance staff, we went underground, following the maintenance track that connects all buildings on our Ruhr campus.
In total, it’s more than 8 km, we walked 2.5 km, from the uni datacentre to our faculty building.
Recruiting CAFS Board Members – 2023–25
We are recruiting a few new members for the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) board of directors.
https://foodstudies.info/recruiting-cafs-board-members-2023-25-2/
#Food #FoodStudies #Academia #HigherEd #GetInvolved #Volunteer #BoardMember #PhDLife #AcademicChatter #FoodPolitics #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodInsecurity #Nutrition #Sociology #Geography #Anthropology #STS #Foodie #Foodies #FoodWays
Two great newses right here, right now:
@taschn and @AndersKMunk will join the #STS group at DTU.
I am so looking forward to working closely with such amazing scholars. *cheering* *smiling* *singing* It was possible!
An excavator has struck.
The cloud system of various universities in the state of Northrine Westphalia, Germany, is offline. It’s an unfortunate timing, we shared all our workshop texts for tomorrow there. But it’s also a perfect fit: planetary actions and knowledge meet.
Recruiting CAFS Board Members – 2023–25
We are recruiting new members for the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) board of directors.
#Food #FoodStudies #Academia #HigherEd #GetInvolved #Volunteer #BoardMember #PhDLife #AcademicChatter #FoodPolitics #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodInsecurity #Nutrition #Sociology #Geography #Anthropology #STS
https://foodstudies.info/recruiting-cafs-board-members-2023-25-2/
A little while back, I posted the below image, saying I've made a thing but I wasn't sure what it does, what it's for, or why...well now I've discovered all those things! Time for a thread about it; welcome to "#Solarpunk Futures", a device that exists on the fringes of the #TerraPi and #Skylab2049 universe!
Through Cory Doctorow’s recent linkdump I learned about the charming non-standard standardisation story of the #fediverse. It was a lucky punch, very unlikely to happen. But here we are with a capable, open, acommercial system. #sts #mastodonmigration
"None of the big players… no one took us seriously. No one saw [the SocialWG] as a threat. No one expected it to go anywhere…. The feeling was, it was small beans... https://stefanlaser.micro.blog/2023/11/22/through-cory-doctorows.html
Flagrant self-promotion/query. I'm thinking about doing a thing where I do summaries and responses of academic papers I'm reading. These would be a mix of planning, data science, #STS, ecology, geography, GIS, and all that.
If this would be of interest to you, please vote below whether you'd rather see each paper response as a single blog post or as threads #OnHere, or not at all.
AWS Copilot + Phoenix + S3 + STS でサーバー負荷なく画像をアップロードする
https://qiita.com/RyoWakabayashi/items/ffc3d3d4acc78ce39a74?utm_campaign=popular_items&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=popular_items
#qiita #Elixir #STS #Phoenix #AWSCopilot
"The HPV vaccine story is really the story of sexualizing cancer—the title of the book—which is not meant to be a loaded or persuasive term on my part. Rather, it’s a way to frame an evolution of thought: how we went from thinking about cancer as relatively separate from STIs & sex, to bringing those ideas more fully together in a way that shapes individual lives and public health in the broadest sense. "
Author interview makes this book look really interesting:
Looking forward to reading Dominic Boyer’s new book No More Fossils @UMinnPress. Somehow appropriate to have a Formica tabletop as the background for this snapshot
New book! Climate, Science, and Society - a reader aimed at undergrads. #STS perspectives on #climate . Proud to have a chapter in this collection!
https://bit.ly/3sFUNop
This week I facilitated a session in a mechanical engineering course on values-sensitive stakeholder analysis. We talked about social and political challenges around renewable energy siting and how considering stakeholder values in design can improve outcomes for all.
#sts #philosophy @philosophy #ethics #education #teaching #techEthics #engineering
10 fellowships at Käte Hamburger Center 4 Advanced Study in the Cultures of Research in Aachen (https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/). In 2024.2025, we will focus on methods and perspectives of STS and also continue to work on the topic of Life-Likeness. Application deadline is December 31, 2023. #jobopportunity #STS
The SFU Dean's Lecture by Dr. Safiya Noble was fantastic!!
"What AI Tools do is that they flatten the human experience. . . Humanity is the antidote to this. Everywhere we can resist dehumanization through tech is the pathway through."
Amazing!!
AWS Service Endpoints and VPC Endpoints
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ACM.379 Fixing the STS network problem blocking STS assume-role in Lambda and containers
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First of a couple of posts to reverse-engineer inaccurate error messages.
#AWS #STS #IAM #Network #Security
https://medium.com/cloud-security/aws-service-endpoints-d8a12a6893ce
“What does it mean for technologies that are built for short-term use, real-time updates, and perpetual refresh to broker individual and collective legacies?” Listen to Tamara Kneese @tamigraph explain on the latest episode of Imagine Otherwise
https://ideasonfire.net/157-tamara-kneese
#TamaraKneese #ImagineOtherwise #IdeasOnFire #DeathGlitch #MediaStudies #DigitalStudies #InternetStudies #CulturalStudies #STS #IoFAuthors #IoFAuthor #NCA2023
#AI #STS: "This commentary starts with the question ‘How is it that AI has come to be figured uncontroversially as a thing, however many controversies “it” may engender?’ Addressing this question takes us to knowledge practices that philosopher of science Helen Verran has named a ‘hardening of the categories’, processes that not only characterise the onto-epistemology of AI but also are central to its constituent techniques and technologies. In a context where the stabilization of AI as a figure enables further investments in associated techniques and technologies, AI's status as controversial works to reiterate both its ontological status and its agency. It follows that interventions into the field of AI controversies that fail to trouble and destabilise the figure of AI risk contributing to its uncontroversial reproduction. This is not to deny the proliferating data and compute-intensive techniques and technologies that travel under the sign of AI but rather to call for a keener focus on their locations, politics, material-semiotic specificity, and effects, including their ongoing enactment as a singular and controversial object."
🎙️New Imagine Otherwise episode alert! We dive into the relationship between Big Tech and mortality.
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews media scholar Tamara Kneese @tamigraph about her new Yale University Press book Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond.
https://ideasonfire.net/157-tamara-kneese
#TamaraKneese #ImagineOtherwise #IdeasOnFire #DeathGlitch #MediaStudies #DigitalStudies #InternetStudies #CulturalStudies #STS #IoFAuthors #IoFAuthor #NCA2023
Hey #STS folks, here's a #maintenance/#maintainers story that could use a boost (and possibly serve as a case illustration).
The Centre for Engineering in Society, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada announceS a job posting for a tenure-track Assistant Professor. They are looking for someone with a PhD in #STS and with at least an engineering or computer science degree in their educational background. Applications DUE JAN 15. https://www.concordia.ca/ginacody/about/jobs/ces/2023/tt-responsible-sustainable-innovation-engineering.html
Thanks to @mel_hogan for the hint to the anthology edited by Paul Bogard! We've discussed Solastagia as part of our work on an #sts volume on Predictions. (Which will be a great collective performance.)
Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Technoscience and Indigenous Communities (Associate/Full Professor) School of Health Policy & Management and School of Nursing, Faculty of Health. DEADLINE NOV 15. #STS #indigenouspeoplesday
https://www.yorku.ca/vpepc/faculty-affairs/wp-content/uploads/sites/698/2020/06/HH_CRC_Techno_Updated.pdf
Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Technology, Society and Disability (Associate/Full Professor) Department of Social Science, Department of Sociology and the School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. DEADLINE JAN 22. #STS #DisabilityStudies
https://www.yorku.ca/vpepc/faculty-affairs/wp-content/uploads/sites/698/2020/06/LAPS_CRC_TechSocDis.pdf
Can someone please recommend any good open source programs for qualitative data analysis? I am using Nvivo, but would like to find alternatives.
#opensource #openscience
#QDAS #STS #qualitativeresearch #qualitativedata #academicchatter
@dkiesow @Chanders I'm most disappointed in anyone who studies political economy and/or history. I do also think Bsky will go up in flames, tho don't know when. Doesn't seem like they have any plan for proper modding once they open it up.
I guess I also like that #STS (my home of homes) has a good crew here. We are small but mighty. (If a significant cohort is going over there now, I don't want to know!)
We are hiring!
Assistant Professor – Science and Technology Studies (71102)
Department of Social Science & Cultural Studies
Pratt Institute: School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
https://apply.interfolio.com/130757
The Department of Social Science & Cultural Studies seeks applicants for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor.
@Sociology #CulturalStudies #SocialScience #STS
And FT & PT faculty at Pratt are Unionized (UFCT Local 1460)!
Each year the CHARLES BABBAGE INSTITUTE for COMPUTING, INFORMATION & CULTURE awards the Tomash Fellowship to an outstanding ABD researching/writing a history of computing/software dissertation.
Many leading scholars of the history and sociology of tech are past Tomash recipients!
Info at link. Deadline is January 15, 2024.
@histodons
@sociology
@anthropology
#technology #tech #science #history #sts
cse.umn.edu/cbi/adelle-and-erwin-tomash-fellowship-history-information-technology
Like a decade and a half ago when I first read We Have Never Been Modern, the idea that insisting on an ersatz "purification" between nature and human society was an intrinsic part of a Western "modernist constitution" seemed just way too on the nose.
But once you see it . . .
#STS #Latour #Indigenous #LandBack
(Link is a "gift link" -- please share widely as you see fit)
Holy sh*t, people are buying billboard space to "advertise" how #LongCovid is affecting them. Update the culture jamming & people's plague management handbooks I guess. #STS #Commodon #MedAnthro
Thank you #PublicBooks & Ryan Boyd for this very thoughtful review of #OilBeach!! So honored 😊
"[Dunbar-Hester] makes no promises about the future, and she is not in the business of bromides. But when your economic system is suicidal—when the ordinary business of procuring goods and services is boiling the planet to death—there is no better basis for that than hopeful solidarity, and no option but action"
https://www.publicbooks.org/oil-and-injury-in-los-angeles/
@UChicagoPress @josephcalamia @sts @communicationscholars #STS
@tonygilkerson @Sheril I was going to say that it sounded like you were on the same page--I'm happy that you were!
9 interdisciplinary fellowships for STS, open science, and socio-environmental researchers and community organizers. https://seekcommons.org/fellowship-application.html
#STS #OpenScience #SocialEcologicalSystems #Interdisciplinary
It was very very nice of @leevinsel to have me on the Peoples & Things #podcast for a slightly embarrassing "career retrospective" lol:
York University's Science and Technology Studies grad program is accepting applications from potential MA and PhD students:
https://www.yorku.ca/gradstudies/sts/
I'm affiliated with the program -- let me know if you have questions about it!
All students get funded. The program is particularly interested in recruiting Canadian students in the MA program. (International students are also very welcome to apply!)
☠️ On Saturday 14 Oct, I will be on a panel with @pirateradiomap and Stephen Dunifer:
Walking the Plank in the United Stages: Stories of Un/lawful Radio Transmission
We'll be virtual for the in-person event. If anyone on here is in #NSW & interested in #PirateRadio #MediaActivism, come check it out! Free to register
https://events.humanitix.com/amplifytsg-sat14
#radio @soundstudies #Australia @communicationscholars @sts #Commodon #STS
Welcome @easst over here in the #Fediverse! Looking forward to your updates on #EASST, #EASST4S2024, @sts, #STS #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies more generally.
New book by @firuzehshokvalle looks great!
"Drawing on fieldwork in Costa Rica and a transnational feminist digital organization, Shokooh Valle explores the ways that feminist activists, using digital technologies as well as a collective politics that prioritize solidarity and pleasure, advance a new feminist technopolitics"
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34851
#STS #FeministSTS @sts @communicationscholars
#StanfordUniversityPress #NewBooks
#AI #STS #Fauxtomation: "How can we examine so-called ‘artificial intelligence’ (‘AI’) without turning our backs on the STS tradition that questions both notions of artificiality and intelligence? This special issue attempts a step to the side: Instead of considering ‘AI’ as something that does or does not exist (and then taking a position on its benefits or harms), its ambition is to document, in an empirical and agnostic way, the performances that make, sometimes, ‘AI’ appear or disappear in situation. And it comes out, from this perspective, that 'AI' could be considered a vast commensuration undertaking."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127231194591
...this book is still entirely too brown-nosing when it comes to these guys tho. the section about allll the different people who called newton and leibniz "geniuses" was just neverending... at least it also talks about how they were both difficult people, but still.
that "Great Man" myth is a zombie! it should be dead, but yet it ambles on and on...
so far, my favorite part of the book is when it talks about how disgusting london was and how much madness there was in western medicine. although i do feel very sad about the people who were forced to live in this horrible place in this horrible time, and the people who were subject to these medical procedures....
anyway, the book is "The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World" by edward dolnick.
edit: also, this book is a candidate for a para-text all about the women who enabled them to focus on their beautiful work. who left the trays of food that newton left untouched because he was way too in the zone? the book never says. (see: "who cooked adam smith's dinner" by katrine marcal)
i am reading "the clockwork universe" by edward dolnick and it just asserted that robert boyle (a founder of the royal society, namesake of boyle's law, & a famous chemist) believed that the best cure for cataracts was to blow powdered & dried human excrement into the patient's eyes.
according to wikipedia, he was also an alchemist and a director of the wicked east india company. "In his will, Boyle provided money for a series of lectures to defend the Christian religion against those he considered "notorious infidels, namely atheists, deists, pagans, Jews and Muslims"" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boyle
so yea, Great Men and all that! 😬
Happy to share the news that from November onwards, I will be spending a year at RWTH Aachen, as a Fellow at the Käte Hamburg Kolleg “Cultures of Research”. I’ll be working on the intersection between scientific collaboration and scientific reform. #philsci #histsci #sociology #STS #Metasci 1/
New piece in Nieman Lab, with Jake Karr & growing out of the Knowing Machines project:
"Press freedom means controlling the language of AI":
"Generative AI systems act like 'stochastic parrots,' using statistical models to guess word orders & pixel placements. That’s incompatible with a free press that commands its own words."
https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/09/press-freedom-means-controlling-the-language-of-ai/
#sts #Commodon #Communication #MediaStudies #AcademicChatter #journalism #ai #generativeAI
cc @niemanlab @communicationscholars
Technopolitical myths travel quickly.
On 12 September, a fire in a #Hanoi house killed 50 residents. A tragedy that gained more local interest than the Biden visit.
Suddenly, new fire extinguishers pop up everywhere. And there is a national fear of e-scooters. There was a rumour that the fire was started by one. Turns out it was a normal scooter and a gas pipeline. But the myth is here. Like, an entire uni campus banned charging e-scooters. It's the usual anti-e.
https://vietnamnews.vn/society/1594039/short-circuit-of-scooter-behind-tragic-fire-that-killed-56-in-ha-noi-police.html #sts
"“There is no magic lens that will enable us to look at, to see nature unclouded … uncolored by any values, hopes, fears, anxieties, desires, goals that we bring to it,” Keller told journalist Bill Moyers in 1990 for his “World of Ideas” show on PBS."
I've know about this for a few days, but here is the official news release.
#evelynfoxkeller
#STS #FeministScientist
https://news.mit.edu/2023/professor-emerita-evelyn-fox-keller-dies-0925
A new article examining COVID-19 testing situations - moments in which it is no longer possible to go on in the usual way - on Twitter published in Social Media + Society, co-authored by @NoortjeMarres @gabrielecolombo @lbngr @jwyg Carolin Gerlitz & James Tripp.
https://publicdatalab.org/2023/09/25/covid19-testing-situations/
#sts #feministsts #methods #visualmethods #commodon #socialmedia #covid19 #testing #situationalanalysis #situationalimageanalysis #testingsituations #nolongerpossibletogooninusualway
Prepping next week's activity on #SciFi as #STS critique for my social #informatics and cyborg #anthropology students.
We all watch a short film version of *Car Wars* by @pluralistic and then the class examines the plot from three different critical perspectives.
Students are working together as teams in Google Docs within the same classroom, F2F discussion, shared workspace.
Whole class shares and debriefs toward end of session.
Feel free to reuse CC-BY.
I am interested in #Ethics of #AI or #AIEthics , #DigitalSociety, how to monitor algorithmic systems #AlgoMon, #RRI, #STS and #privacy discourse
I write and boost posts in those topics.
Also boost #AcademicJobs in those areas.
My posts and boost can be in German or English.
I need to seriously reduce my time looking at screens, my eyes are virtually hurting.
What are your favourite podcasts? A bit nerdy, informative, deep dives, tech, ecology, queerfeminist discussions, Asia-Pacific.
I'm thinking in the lines of Cultures of Energy, @mel_hogan Data Fix, @parismarx Tech won't Safe Us, @emergencemagazine, Wohlstand für Alle, You're Wrong About, ... but also some format I do not have on my radar. @sts @academicchatter
Event announcement for friends at mastodon.mit.edu + other #STS #mediastudies scholars and data activists in #Cambridge #Boston.
Next Wed. Sep. 20 at 5pm (MIT 9-451), join the Data + Feminism Lab and Tierra Común at Data, Bodies, Territories: a conversation on Global Majority challenges to data colonialism with Paola Ricaurte, @JulianPosada, @kanarinka, and yours truly.