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Enchanted Determinism: Power without Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence by Campolo, Alexander, Crawford, Kate

“…Deep learning techniques are growing in popularity within the field of artificial intelligence (AI). These approaches identify patterns in large scale…”
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Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction by Elish, Madeleine Clare

“…As debates about the policy and ethical implications of AI systems grow, it will be increasingly important to accurately locate who is responsible when agency…”
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Why We Can't Have Our Facts Back by Marres, Noortje

“…How do we make the case for “knowledge democracy” in the face of the growing influence of right-wing figures and movements that denounce experts and expertise?…”
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Citizen Science: Probing the Virtues and Contexts of Participatory Research by Kimura, Aya H., Kinchy, Abby

“…Citizen science is an increasingly popular activity, from bird counts to amateur water sample collection to air quality monitoring. Researchers and theorists…”
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Catching Our Breath: Critical Race STS and the Carceral Imagination by Benjamin, Ruha

“…This article draws together science and technology studies and critical race theory to examine the proliferation and intensification of carceral approaches to…”
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STS and Innovation: Borderlands, Regenerations and Critical Engagements by Irwin, Alan

“…This introduction to a thematic collection on the relationship between STS and innovation poses three main questions. When it comes to engaging with and acting…”
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How Diversity Matters in the US Science and Engineering Workforce: A Critical Review Considering Integration in Teams, Fields, and Organizational Contexts by Smith-Doerr, Laurel, Alegria, Sharla N., Sacco, Timothy

“…How the race and gender diversity of team members is related to innovative science and technology outcomes is debated in the scholarly literature. Some studies…”
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Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments by Jensen, Casper Bruun, Morita, Atsuro

“…Ontology has recently gained renewed attention in science and technology studies and anthropology (e.g. Gad, Jensen and Winthereik 2015; Holbraad, Pedersen and…”
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Unintended by Design: On the Political Uses of “Unintended Consequences” by Parvin, Nassim, Pollock, Anne

“…This paper revisits the term “unintended consequences,” drawing upon an illustrative vignette to show how it is used to dismiss vital ethical and political…”
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Standardization as Spaces of Diversity by Loconto, Allison Marie, Demortain, David

“…Standards have become an important object of investigation in social science and STS scholars have called for a more systematic program of research to study…”
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Algorithms in the Margins: Organized Community Resistance to Port Automation in the Los Angeles Harbor Area by Cruz, Taylor M, Park, Jaewoo, Moore, Emily, Chen, Austin, Gordillo, Andrea

“…Public deliberations on artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) provoke strong interest in automation, or the perceived displacement of human…”
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Book-Smart, Not Street-Smart: Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts and The Social Workings of Law by Levy, Karen E. C.

“…This paper critiques blockchain-based “smart contracts,” which aim to automatically and securely execute obligations without reliance on a centralized…”
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A Wary Alliance: From Enumerating the Environment to Inviting Apprehension by Shapiro, Nicholas, Zakariya, Nasser, Roberts, Jody

“…In this paper we resituate discussions of community-based science beyond the emancipatory rhetoric of democratization, creative commons, and the blurring of…”
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Masking (Not Masking) Up: An STS Visual-Intersectional Approach to Understanding Publics and Science in Times of Rapid Change by Bell, Susan, Grzanka, Patrick, Joyce, Kelly, Senier, Laura

“…In this paper we argue that a visual-intersectional approach can advance the field of science and technology studies (STS). Although there is a small but…”
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Breathing Late Industrialism by Ahmann, Chloe, Kenner, Alison

“…Breakdown, trespass, seepage, degradation: this is late industrialism. Over the past decade, the term has become synonymous with collapse, describing…”
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Non-Manipulable Things? Maintaining a Techno-Judicial Imaginary on Sealed Biological Samples in the French Criminal Justice by Rabeharisoa, Vololona, Paterson, Florence

“…This article investigates the maintenance of sealed biological samples in the context of the French criminal justice. It extends maintenance studies to…”
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Software Maintenance as Materialization of Common Knowledge by Ojala, Mace, Leavitt Cohn, Marisa

“…While development of software always implicitly takes place in contexts of inherited entanglements and legacies, its maintenance deals explicitly with what is…”
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Lateral Concepts by Gad, Christopher, Jensen, Casper Bruun

“…This essay discusses the complex relation between the knowledges and practices of the researcher and his/her informants in terms of lateral concepts. The…”
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Residues: Rethinking Chemical Environments by Boudia, Soraya, Creager, Angela N.H., Frickel, Scott, Henry, Emmanuel, Jas, Nathalie, Reinhardt, Carsten, Roberts, Jody A.

“…This essay offers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impact of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental…”
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From “More Innovation” to “Better Innovation”? by Pfotenhauer, Sebastian

“…This paper departs from the observation that there seems to be a new appetite for critique and reflexivity in innovation policy and innovation studies (IS),…”
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