Search Results - "Social studies of science"

Machine learning, social learning and the governance of self-driving cars by Stilgoe, Jack

“…Self-driving cars, a quintessentially ‘smart’ technology, are not born smart. The algorithms that control their movements are learning as the technology…”
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The future(s) of open science by Mirowski, Philip

“…Almost everyone is enthusiastic that ‘open science’ is the wave of the future. Yet when one looks seriously at the flaws in modern science that the movement…”
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Toxic politics: Acting in a permanently polluted world by Liboiron, Max, Tironi, Manuel, Calvillo, Nerea

“…Toxicity has become a ubiquitous, if uneven, condition. Toxicity can allow us to focus on how forms of life and their constituent relations, from the scale of…”
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The politics of care in technoscience by Martin, Aryn, Myers, Natasha, Viseu, Ana

“…Care is a slippery word. Any attempt to define it will be exceeded by its multivocality in everyday and scholarly use. In its enactment, care is both necessary…”
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Creating energy citizenship through material participation by Ryghaug, Marianne, Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe, Heidenreich, Sara

“…Transitions towards low-carbon energy systems will be comprehensive and demanding, requiring substantial public support. One important contribution from STS is…”
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Post-truth? by Sismondo, Sergio

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Understanding ‘anticipatory governance’ by Guston, David H

“…Anticipatory governance is ‘a broad-based capacity extended through society that can act on a variety of inputs to manage emerging knowledge-based technologies…”
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The politics of scaling by Pfotenhauer, Sebastian, Laurent, Brice, Papageorgiou, Kyriaki, Stilgoe, and Jack

“…A fixation on ‘scaling up’ has captured current innovation discourses and, with it, political and economic life at large. Perhaps most visible in the rise of…”
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Unsettling care: Troubling transnational itineraries of care in feminist health practices by Murphy, Michelle

“…Responding to the call by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa for Science and Technology Studies to take up 'matters of care', this article cautions against equating…”
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Making time for soil: Technoscientific futurity pace of care by de la Bellacasa, Maria Puig

“…The dominant drive for understanding soil has been to pace its fertility with human demand. Today, warnings about soil's exhaustion and endangered ecology…”
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No funeral bells: Public reason in a ‘post-truth’ age by Jasanoff, Sheila, Simmet, Hilton R

“…The label ‘post-truth’ signals for many a troubling turn away from principles of enlightened government. The word ‘post’, moreover, implies a past when things…”
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Contributorship and division of labor in knowledge production by Larivière, Vincent, Desrochers, Nadine, Macaluso, Benoît, Mongeon, Philippe, Paul-Hus, Adèle, Sugimoto, Cassidy R

“…Scientific authorship has been increasingly complemented with contributorship statements. While such statements are said to ensure more equitable credit and…”
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Actor-Network Theory and methodology: Just what does it mean to say that nonhumans have agency? by Sayes, Edwin

“…Actor-Network Theory is a controversial social theory. In no respect is this more so than the role it 'gives' to nonhumans: nonhumans have agency, as Latour…”
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Panacea or diagnosis? Imaginaries of innovation and the ‘MIT model’ in three political cultures by Pfotenhauer, Sebastian, Jasanoff, Sheila

“…Innovation studies continue to struggle with an apparent disconnect between innovation’s supposedly universal dynamics and a sense that policy frameworks and…”
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Matters of care in technoscience: Assembling neglected things by de la Bellacasa, Maria Puig

“…This paper aims to encourage an ethos of care in the study of science and technology. It starts with a reading of Bruno Latour's notion of 'matters of concern'…”
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Genetic ancestry testing among white nationalists: From identity repair to citizen science by Panofsky, Aaron, Donovan, Joan

“…White nationalists have a genetic essentialist understanding of racial identity, so what happens when using genetic ancestry tests (GATs) to explore personal…”
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The wrong bin bag: A turn to ontology in science and technology studies? by Woolgar, Steve, Lezaun, Javier

“…There is in science and technology studies a perceptible new interest in matters of ‘ontology’. Until recently, the term ‘ontology’ had been sparingly used in…”
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Algorithmic psychometrics and the scalable subject by Stark, Luke

“…Recent public controversies, ranging from the 2014 Facebook ‘emotional contagion’ study to psychographic data profiling by Cambridge Analytica in the 2016…”
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The Anthropo-scene: A guide for the perplexed by Lorimer, Jamie

“…The scientific proposal that the Earth has entered a new epoch as a result of human activities – the Anthropocene – has catalysed a flurry of intellectual…”
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Data as promise: Reconfiguring Danish public health through personalized medicine by Hoeyer, Klaus

“…‘Personalized medicine’ might sound like the very antithesis of population science and public health, with the individual taking the place of the population…”
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