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What's in the Blood? Temporalities at Play in Diet-Related Risk Management Testing Practices Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Myriam Durocher
In this paper, I look at two different sets of practices that are part of the risk management apparatus in place in Québec & Canada to apprehend and control risks associated with food consumption. More specifically, I contrast diabetes and chemical contaminants risk management testing practices, so as to compare how both frame and approach risks, in a context where recent research in social sciences
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A Sustainable City Made By Resident-Experts - How Designerly Intervention Enacted Rights of the Public and Urban Infrastructure Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Donghyun Koo
This paper proposes an investigation of how enacting infrastructure is intertwined with historically specific processes of constructing the public, which necessitates a focus on the co-production of public problems and the public, and the establishment of infrastructural connections. Intervening in the context where reflexive planning and design methodologies are deployed to implement urban regeneration
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Underground Roots for Ancestral Futures: Exploring Lithium Through an Experimental Alliance between Chemistry and Anthropology Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Cristobal Bonelli, Martina Gamba
Amid the push for decarbonization and the rise of lithium-ion batteries, global demand for lithium urges an examination of its materiality. Drawing on Barry's chemical geography, which gathers various concerns related to the study of chemicals in the field, and Bachelard's meta-chemical proposal, which challenges a substantialist understanding of chemicals, we propose an experimental alliance between
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Reflections on an Inclusive Boundary Worker Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Nelly Oudshoorn
This essay is part of a Thematic Collection of Science, Technology & Human Values on the work of Adele E. Clarke (1945–2024).
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Out of Sync: The Making and Remaking of Data and Regulations on Greenhouse Gases at the International Maritime Organization Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Kjersti Aalbu
This article explores the entanglements of the making of data and climate regulations at a specialized UN agency, the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Based on observant participation, document analysis, and interviews, I examine the politics of making and remaking a new data infrastructure—the Data Collection System (DCS)—and how the limitations and hopes invested in this infrastructure
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The Shadow Bodies of Mice: Invisible Work in Translational Medicine Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Carrie Friese
The clinician-scientist is often viewed as the crucial nexus in the translational processes that turn scientific research into medical technologies, including but not limited to pharmaceuticals. To create a point of contrast, and to consider the theme of invisible labor, this paper foregrounds an alternative actant who has also been deemed a vital nexus in translational medicine within Science and
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Loving Technologies? Beyond Climate Finance's Logics of Scalability in Infrastructures in Fiji Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Kirsty Anantharajah
This paper explores how climate finance approaches and logics, particularly around scale, manifest in local climate technologies in Fiji. Through multi-sited fieldwork, the paper explores experiences around three climate related infrastructures: a biomass plant in Nadroga; a diesel-solar community hybrid system in Island X; and a seawall in Levuka, Ovalua. Each represent a key aspect of Fiji's climate-related
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The Techno-Optics of Safety: Surveillance and Women's Ambivalent Experiences in South Korea's “Smart Safe City” Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Chamee Yang
The rise of “scientific security” discourse has spurred the use of optical technologies and data analytics in crime prevention. It has coincided with a shift in smart city narratives, positing these developments as enhancing women's freedom and safety in urban spaces. However, these narratives often overlook the nuanced and embodied experience of safety and women's ambivalent relationship with technology
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The Racial Spectacular: Pandemic Governance Through Dashboards and State Biosecurity Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Shiloh Krupar, Nadine Ehlers
Data visualizations related to COVID-19 operate as forms of spectacle essential to the racialized governance of the pandemic. Guy Debord theorized spectacle as separation—between subjects, populations, regions, dots on a map. We extend and revise Debord's framework of spectacle, drawing on Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism and Sylvia Wynter's critique of monohumanism to position spectacle
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Citizen Observations as Legal Obligations: (Dis)Associations and Representation at the Swedish Land and Environment Court of Appeal Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Dick Kasperowski, Jesse Peterson, Niclas Hagen
There is an increasing international trend in environmental activism to use legal institutions and infrastructures for citizen science (CS) to affect policy and regulation. However, knowledge about observations produced in activist CS and their functions at courts is scarce. To address this, we analyze how citizen observations (COs) reported to an established infrastructure for CS assist in producing
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“Kids are Kids”: Benevolent Ignorance and the Omission of Race in Developmental Justice Reform Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 William Wannyn
The criminal culpability of juvenile offenders remains a controversial and contested issue in the legal and public arenas in the United States. Since the mid-2000s, juvenile crime has been reframed by SCOTUS as a problem of brain immaturity. This article interrogates the omission of race from this new discourse of immaturity. First, I show that an alliance of learned societies, scholars, policy experts
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The Stack Inversion: On Algo-Centrism and the Complex Architecture of Automated Financial Securities Trading Systems Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Kristian Bondo Hansen
In this article, I argue that devoting analytical attention to the natively technical concept of “the stack” can help re-sensitize studies of algorithms in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and adjacent fields to the depths of interdependence between different layers and elements of computational systems. Inspired by Bowker and Star's three-decades old methodological gestalt-switch concept of “infrastructural
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Dissolving Boundaries, Fostering Dependencies. the new Forensic Genetics Assemblage Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Matthias Wienroth, Rafaela Granja
New and emerging forensic genetics technologies offer significant insight into personal information, changing the way that policing and criminal justice uses of such technologies are being considered and legitimized. In this article, based on data from Central and Western European countries and the United States of America, we analyze how the compounding, interdependent effects of four such technologies—massive
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Trained Judgements Artificial Intelligence, Epistemic Tensions and the Production of Scientific Objectivity Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Giulia Anichini, Baptiste Kotras
In this paper, we investigate uses of AI (Artificial intelligence) in two distinct fields: radiology and prehistoric archaeology. We examine the normative tensions between the scripts encapsulated within the technology and pre-existing professional and epistemic cultures, as well as the situations in which mechanical objectivity fits with local norms. Through ethnographic observation and interviews
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Scaling Up or Deep Scaling? Problematizing the Scalability Imperative in Technological Innovation Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Brice Laurent, Alexandre Violle
This paper problematizes the obsession with “scaling up” that is visible in numerous technological domains. Using the case of hydrogen mobility projects in France, we identify a tension between a discourse of rapid scaling for nationwide deployment, and projects undertaken by local authorities and private companies who make small-scale experiments with hydrogen cars and charging stations more dense
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Observer 8: Outliers, Attention, and Situated Knowledge in a Qualitative Behavioral Assessment of Laboratory Mouse Welfare Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Maisie Tomlinson
This article explores how an innovative animal welfare methodology (Qualitative Behavior Assessment) negotiates subjectivism and objectivism in its distinctive epistemology, as it strives to produce a certain kind of laboratory mouse—a complex, social subject. Through an ethnographic study of the development of a Qualitative Behavior Assessment (QBA) tool for laboratory mouse welfare, I show how QBA
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The Trading Zones of Patient Participation: Public Issue Formation in Nondemocratic Situations Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Vlas Nikulkin, Olga Zvonareva
This article investigates public issue formation catalyzed by Russian patient organizations (POs) that aim to change healthcare rules and practices following patients’ needs and expectations. Drawing on the socio-ontological approach of science and technology studies, which posits that issues do not exist independently of efforts to address them, we identify three main stages of public issue formation
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Saved by the Moon: Imaginaries of Earthly Afterlife in Space Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Charlotte Kroløkke, Jonas Holm Larsen
Today, emergent space technology engages in visions of future off-world colonizing, while conservation technology is employed in ensuring the continuation of life on earth. In this article, we combine social science of outer space literature with biodiversity conservation work to analyze how utopian visions of off-world futures and dystopian visions of earth entangle in technoscientific future-making
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Extractions: Data Infrastructures and the Public Good Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Ana Delgado, Susanne Bauer
This special issue invites reflection on digital forms of resource extractivism, through thinking-with microbes, fish, smart energy, and human bodies. We examine the confluence of infrastructure building, public good enactment, and nature datafication to account for novel forms of resource economies. The articles in this collection empirically investigate the various ways in which nature is turned
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Tolerable Tests: Regulating Diagnostic Innovation in a Global Health Emergency, Lessons from Ebola Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Alice Street, Ann H. Kelly
The response to the 2014-2016 West African epidemic was a watershed for emergency research and innovation, forcing a shift in regulatory norms as evidentiary standards were pitted against humanitarian imperatives and biosecurity concerns. This article examines how those ethical and epistemic negotiations unfolded in practice through the development, testing, and use of novel tools for Ebola diagnosis
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Between Open Deliberation and the Capturing of Public Opinion: Producing Opinions in Public Engagement Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Svenja Breuer, Michael Penkler
The past decades have seen increasing calls to actively involve publics in the governance of science and technology. Many public engagement initiatives aim to facilitate the formation of public opinion. But what is an opinion? While the notion is often taken as self-evident, different imaginaries of what opinions are and how they should be formed are highly consequential for shaping relations between
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Legal Repair: Domesticating European Legislation on Pig Welfare Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Sebastian Billows, Marc-Olivier Déplaude
Our daily activities rely on a proliferating number of things that are subject to decay. As stressed in a growing body of literature, repair is critical to the smooth functioning of material infrastructure. However, this scholarship has overlooked a crucial dimension: things become fragile not only due to material degradation but also as a result of regulatory change. This article introduces the notion
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Beyond Neural Connections: Using Strathern to Explore Knowledge-making at the Intersections of the Social and Neurosciences Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Samantha Croy, Marilys Guillemin
This article considers how Marilyn Strathern’s work on Western knowledge conventions can usefully contribute to debates at the intersection of the social and neurosciences: first, to understanding the nature of work at this intersection; and second, to providing new avenues for interdisciplinary engagement. The neuroscience explosion in the 1990s and the early twenty-first century held out the promise
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Semantic Web Practices: Infrastructural Politics and the Future of the Web Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Susan Halford, Mark Weal, Faranak Hardcastle, Nicholas Gibbins, Samantha Pearman-Kanza, Catherine Pope
In the past thirty years, the Web has developed from its inception as a layer of protocols on top of the Internet to use by more than 5 billion people and organizations. This has driven the creation of vast quantities of data and led to deep concerns about the politics of digital data and computational methods. To date, critical investigation of these concerns has focused on large commercial platforms
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The Active Form of Security: Technology and the Material-aesthetic Script Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Jonathan Luke Austin, Anna Leander
How are socially and politically controversial security practices materially-technologically scripted into our lives in ever-deeper ways? This essay proposes that acts of aesthetic design are at the heart of that process and are being deployed by technology corporations to “smooth” the diffusion of security practices, discourses, and politics across global space. To substantiate that claim, we make
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Buttery Smooth: Privacy’s Bundling with Attention in Web Browser Performance Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Lake Polan
Long considered an object of the law, Americans increasingly encounter privacy via the operations and settings of networked technologies. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with privacy engineers and their corporate colleagues, this paper examines how privacy’s manifestation in web technologies opens it to pragmatic linkages with new sensuous qualities and interpretive possibilities. The paper’s primary
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Coding Beauty and Decoding Ugliness: The Role of Aesthetic Concerns in Programming Practices Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Marina Fedorova, Melissa Mazmanian, Paul Dourish
In this article, we analyze the productive role of aesthetics in organizing technoscientific work. Specifically, we investigate how aesthetic judgments form and inform code-writing practices at a large web services company in Russia. We focus on how programmers express aesthetic judgments about code and software design in everyday practice and explore how language with positive and negative valences
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Unscripted Practices for Uncertain Events: Organizational Problems in Cybersecurity Incident Management Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Ashwin Jacob Mathew
Scripts can help us understand the designer–user relationship, by offering analysis of designers’ intent in technological objects and examination of users’ behaviors through willingness (and unwillingness) to take on scripts. But how are we to understand these relationships in the context of cybersecurity, in the face of adversaries determined to gain unauthorized access to computer systems by actively
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The Politics of Amphibiousness: Shifting Coastal Management in the Netherlands Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Marieke Meesters, Annet Pauwelussen, Esther Turnhout
This paper explores the consequences of a shift in Dutch coastal management. The management approach transitioned from aiming to keep the sea at bay toward the stimulation of dynamic sea-land relations. This shift toward “dynamic management” can be seen as part of wider trends in both ecological and science, technology, and society thinking on coasts as amphibious more-than-human entanglements. We
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Vanguard Visions of Vertical Farming: Envisaging and Contesting an Emerging Food Production System Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Mascha Gugganig
Vertical farming is an emerging urban food growth proposal that has gained considerable attention for its ability to be space-efficient, independent of outside weather conditions, and to address a dismal agricultural system and ecoclimatic crises. VF is also a field riddled with debates on the unsustainability and high (energy) costs of a highly automated, indoor growth system that produces only a
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Seeing Like a Model Fish: How Digital Extractions Mediate Metabolic Relations Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Susanne Bauer
Digital models have become key sites of biological practice and science policy. This paper examines efforts to craft a digital salmon model for metabolic research. It traces the data configurations of feed, food, and health in Norway’s bioeconomy aspirations—from cell culture studies in the lab to an integrated digital repository and public health nutrition trials in schools. A response to policy calls
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Making Citra: Branding, Breeding, and the Co-production of New Aroma Hops in the Yakima Valley Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Matt Comi
Using farmer-owned breeding programs operated by vertically integrated US Northwest hop growers, this article examines the novel hops produced by these programs with market applications for craft beer. Drawing on data collected through hybrid qualitative methods, I explore Yakima farmers’ understandings of the hop material they breed, grow, buy, and/or sell, alongside this model’s resulting value chain
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Islands and Beaches in Science and Technology Studies Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Warwick Anderson
The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annually awards the John Desmond Bernal Prize to one or more individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of Science and Technology Studies. Past winners have included founders of the field, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to the understanding of the social dimensions of science and technology. This
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Life as Aftermath: Social Theory for an Age of Anthropogenic Biology Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Hannah Landecker
Anthropogenic pressures now shape the development, interrelations, and evolution of microbes, plants, animals, and humans. In an age of oxidative stress and failures of DNA repair, cytokine storms and microbial dysbiosis, social scientific theory stutters in the face of biological consequences of forces it masterfully detailed, from biopower to looping kinds. Concepts of the fallibility of knowledge
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Hydroelectric Chimeras and “Our” Mayan Rivers: De-inscribing Security in Guatemala Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Diane M. Nelson
This essay is written in the wake of Guatemala’s thirty-six-year civil war, grounded in the Cold War–Doctrine of National Security which understood Indigenous people as “internal enemy.” People who joined social movements were also seeking security: bodily integrity, land, a living wage. For Indigenous people, it was security to be who they are: speaking their languages, practicing their spirituality
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A Contested Script: Conjuring Security through Registration in Italy Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Enrico Gargiulo
This article aims to map out the various meanings of security entailed by the different uses and misuses of registration in Italy. As will emerge from this analysis, population registers have been employed either as tools for observing the population and its dynamics or, on the contrary, as devices for identifying its “deserving” members. By drawing this map, this article contributes to the analysis
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Laboratory Practices, Potentiality, and Material Patienthood in Genomic Cancer Medicine Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Julia Swallow, Tineke Broer, Anne Kerr, Sarah Cunningham-Burley
Laboratory practitioners working in oncology are increasingly involved in implementing genomic medicine, operating at the intersection of the laboratory and the clinic. This includes molecular diag...
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Digitized Patients: Elaborative Tinkering and Knowledge Practices in the Open-source Type 1 Diabetes “Looper Community” Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Bianca Jansky
In this article, I explore knowledge practices in increasingly digitized, data-driven, and personalized health-care settings by empirically focusing on the “looper community” in type 1 diabetes. Th...
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Making Futures by Freezing Life: Ambivalent Temporalities of Cryopreservation Practices Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Veit Braun, Sara Lafuente-Funes, Thomas Lemke, Ruzana Liburkina
The preservation of biological matter at extremely low temperatures has gained increasing importance in a broad range of life science fields in recent years. Social and cultural studies of cryotech...
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Becoming a (Neuro)Migrant: Attachment, Early Stimulation, and the Government of the Future of Chile Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Gabriel Abarca-Brown
The encounters between health institutions, practitioners, and Haitian and Dominican communities have triggered several frictions and conflicts in the public health system in Chile since 2010, espe...
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Tempting Luck: Temporalities and Risk Anticipation among Egg Donors in Spain Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Anna Molas, Andrea Whittaker
Within the expanding bioeconomy of assisted reproduction, there are limitations to providing quality informed consent for egg donation when the long-term risks remain unknown. Based on ethnographic...
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The Performativity of AI-powered Event Detection: How AI Creates a Racialized Protest and Why Looking for Bias Is Not a Solution Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Eleanor Drage, Federica Frabetti
This article builds a theoretical framework with which to confront the racializing capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered real-time Event Detection and Alert Creation (EDAC) software ...
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Human and Person When Life Is Fragile: New Relationships and Inherent Ambivalences in the Care of Dying Patients Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Simon Cohn, Annelieke Driessen, Erica Borgstrom
In this paper, we focus on how medical staff care for people who are dying and on the increasing use of diverse technologies to ease the experience of dying. Because it is accepted patients cannot ...
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Self-updating Prophecies: An Inquiry into Imagining and Building Decentralized Sensor Networks Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Andrés Domínguez Hernández
Recent years have seen remarkable efforts to decentralize the deployment of infrastructure for sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) applications using emerging low-power protocols. These arrangemen...
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The Role of Vitrification in Spanish Reproductive Labs: A Cryo-revolution Led by Strategic Freezing Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Sara Lafuente-Funes
Assisted reproductive technologies have expanded vastly and are frequently addressed using the language of revolution. The last two decades witnessed important transformations in Spanish repromarke...
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The Economization of Early Life: Human Capital Theory, Biology, and Social Policy Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Zachary Webster Griffen
The US government response to the coronavirus pandemic has prompted renewed debate about the size and structure of the welfare state. Particular attention has been paid to prenatal and early childh...
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Citizen Science in News Media: Boundary Mediation of Public Participation in Health Expertise Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 E. Carolina Mayes
In this article, I examine how scientific boundary work describes or represents citizen science as credible forms of expertise. Citizen science is an ambiguous concept, and I leverage that ambiguit...
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Troubleshooting: The Automation of Synthetic Biology and the Labor of Technological Futures Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Annie Hammang
Science and Technology Studies has long characterized the dynamics of imagining new technology as the primary driver of progress. Among these dynamics are the performative effects of the future, wh...
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Contesting Infrastructural Futures: 5G Opposition as a Technological Drama Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Vivien Butot, Liesbet van Zoonen
This paper addresses the public contestation of the rollout of the fifth generation of mobile telecommunications networks (5G) in the Netherlands. Drawing on Pfaffenberger’s framework of technologi...
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Caring for Organoids: Patient Personhood and the Ethics of Avoidance in Translational Cancer Research Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Mie S. Dam, Sara Green
This article explores the daily practices in a Danish cancer laboratory, where researchers use “personal organoids” as new translational models in the development of personalized medicine. Grown fr...
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Audible Crime Scenes: ShotSpotter as Diagnostic, Policing, and Space-making Infrastructure Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Edward B. Kang, Simogne Hudson
Acoustic gunshot detection systems (AGDS) have been emerging as a technological solution to the growing problem of gun violence around the world. We examine a particularly prominent AGDS technology...
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Affective Labor in Integrative STS Research Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 T. Y. Branch, G. M. Duché
Science and technology studies (STS) practitioners regularly use qualitative research methods to describe the structures and practices of science. Despite a long history of collaborative inter- and...
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Doing User Involvement: Shifting Interstices and Coalescing Tensions in Care Technology Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Björn Fischer, Alexander Peine, Britt Östlund
This paper explores user involvement in company practice as a method that is both contingent and transformative. Drawing on ethnographic research in a small- to medium-sized care technology company...
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Innovation in Technology Instead of Thinking? Assetization and Its Epistemic Consequences in Academia Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Ruth Falkenberg, Maximilian Fochler
This paper draws on the notion of the asset to better understand the role of innovative research technologies in researchers’ practices and decisions. Faced with both the need to accumulate academi...
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Forgone, Not Forgotten: “DNA Fingerprinting,” Migration Control and Britain’s DNA Profiling Pilot Project Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Roberta Bivins
DNA profiling has become a culturally ubiquitous technology. Its use, whether in forensic investigations, genetic databases, biomedical research, international border-making, or popular genealogy, ...
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Epigenomic Stories: Evidence of Harm and the Social Justice Promises and Perils of Environmental Epigenetics Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Martine Lappé, Fionna Francis Fahey, Robbin Jeffries Hein
This article develops the concept of epigenomic stories to analyze how scientists describe and study the relationships between environmental epigenetics, health inequities, and social justice. Base...
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Persuasive Technology and Personhood on Social Media Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Emily Martin
Returning to Marcel Mauss’s classic work on the person, this essay explores Mauss’s distinction between personne and personnage and the distinction used in contemporary anthropology between dividua...
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The Cold Futures of Mouse Genetics: Modes of Strain Cryopreservation Since the 1970s Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Dmitriy Myelnikov, Sara Peres
Cryopreservation, or the freezing of embryos or sperm, has become a routine part of many research projects involving laboratory mice. In this article, we combine historical and sociological methods...
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Beyond the Egg and the Sperm?: How Science Has Revised a Romance through Reproductomics Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Janelle Lamoreaux
Social scientists have shown that scientific characterizations of the egg and the sperm are shaped by gender stereotypes and cultural values. How have such characterizations been transformed by a r...
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Governing Agricultural Biotechnologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany: A Trans-decadal Study of Regulatory Cultures Science, Technology, & Human Values (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Adrian Ely, Beate Friedrich, Dominic Glover, Klara Fischer, Glenn Davis Stone, Ann Kingiri, Matthew A. Schnurr
Comparative studies of agricultural biotechnology regulation have highlighted differences in the roles that science and politics play in decision-making. Drawing on documentary and interview eviden...