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.
Does anyone have any references for interpretive social science(ish) papers that use public comments (as in a federal register) as data? Or perhaps any methods papers that address using public comments? (Have I asked this already?) TIA!
📢 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.
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
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"
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.
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.
"Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, & developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality.. Narratives about "equalizing" potential of digital tech ignore circumstances that create such inequality as well as potentially violent role of tech in their lives"
In Defense of Solidarity & Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle
"Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality... In this book, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle argues that these efforts have given rise to an idealized, female economic figure..."
In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South
Tomorrow, I will play around with the notion of stand-ins, a project that might become my habilitation and a book. But I still feel it's a risky bet. Well, let's see. 👇
> I will draw on multi-sited ethnographic research to explore what it means to stay in limbo or move forward to becoming more or less relevant in global economies, amid energy transitions.
Isidor Isaac Rabi's review of two books, by non-scientists (the horror!), on the role of scientists in policy-making is grumpy and hilarious: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2147002
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!
Did someone on here say they were thinking or reading about a connection btwn the "user turn" in STS and neoliberalism, or did I hallucinate that? @sts#STS
@inquiline@sts hmm, I cannot even immediately think of much #STS research that is informed by in depth engagements with #neoliberalism. Is that a blindness on my side? I think of Hess and Pellizzoni. Any other authors?
This issue explores how design, its products, and disciplinary limits could be 'repaired' through the alliance with repair practices, agents, and derived knowledge.
Anyone got a handy ref on poisoning rivers in earlier industrial eras, like runoff from leather tanning or dyeworks in the eastern US or England? *The earlier, the better. TIA!
(pls don't reply-all to the group tools so we don't spam 'em)
Talking Feral Atlas, dear #sts folks. I admire this critical project. "To understand the more-than-human Anthropocene, begin with infrastructures."
But I struggle. It feels bulky and inaccessible, elite-ish, the "how to" blames user's slow internet connection, ... Is it yet another caged project that played with funding, such as Latour's AIME platform?
Let's cherish collaborative open networks. PECE, Blogs, the Fediverse...
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"
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
#ClimateDiary There is no question that #COP28 will be the most important yet. The #GlobalStocktake will be the “biggest accountability moment in history”, and on its basis leaders will need to make crucial key decisions about fiscal and policy commitments. With less than two months to go, we need to all be as well informed as possible and put pressure on leaders as much as we can. I thought I would start a 🧵that I will keep going in the run up 1/n
@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