-
The improvised expert: Staging authority at an OECD Nuclear Energy Agency workshop in Fukushima Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Makoto Takahashi
In recent years, concerns about a crisis of expert authority have been expressed across the globe. Japan is no exception to this trend. Scandals surrounding the (mis)management of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster severely damaged public confidence in state institutions, posing an additional challenge for those engaged in radiological protection. This article examines how claims
-
Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Hiroko Kumaki
What is the role of experts and their expertise in the context of trans-science, in which issues that are raised in scientific terms cannot be answered by science alone? This article examines the discourses and practices around safety of low-dose exposure to radiation in the ongoing aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in Japan in 2011. Following the nuclear fallout, scientific
-
Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Tone Druglitrø, Kristin Asdal
A key ambition in care studies has been to study care in practice and as practice. By turning towards practices, care studies has rendered visible and acknowledged important work that is not captured through looking at formal procedures or official and written materials, such as policy documents and medical protocols. In this literature, document materials and the written have often been seen as unable
-
Bohemia at the Pacific seabed: Archiving the future of deep-sea mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Jonathan M Galka
This article uses historical and ethnographic methods to examine the primarily East-Central European Interoceanmetal Joint Organization (IOM). I ask how and why the IOM has survived as an institution since its inception in 1987, working especially with the personal archive of Vratislav Kubišta. Kubišta was a metallurgist and former Deputy Director General at IOM who after retirement sought to develop
-
‘Floating things’ and methodological drift: Accounting for haunted materialities in the North Pacific Ocean Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Kim De Wolff
In this article I follow the mystery of millions of tons of materials washed out to sea by the March 2011 Japan tsunami: a massive wave of lost materials expected to reach North American shores that never seems to officially arrive. I bring Gordon’s conceptualization of haunting together with STS conversations about absence and invisibility to build on feminist approaches that do not take as given
-
Enacting biosocial complexity: Stress, epigenetic biomarkers and the tools of postgenomics Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Luca Chiapperino
This article analyses attempts to enact complexity in postgenomic experimentations using the case of epigenetic research on biomarkers of psychosocial stress. Enacting complexity in this research means dissecting multiple so-called biosocial processes of health differentiation in the face of stressful experiences. To characterize enactments of biosocial complexity, the article develops the concepts
-
Maintaining innovation: How to make sewer robots and innovation policy work in Barcelona. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Carlos Cuevas-Garcia,Federica Pepponi,Sebastian M Pfotenhauer
This article explores how innovation logics infiltrate problem and value definitions in maintenance and repair, and how innovation itself depends on considerable, often invisible care work beyond the seemingly smooth entrepreneurial narratives. We build on a growing body of work in STS that investigates the relationship between innovation and maintenance and repair. This literature argues that the
-
Domesticating data: Traveling and value-making in the data economy. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Clémence Pinel,Mette N Svendsen
Data are versatile objects that can travel across contexts. While data's travels have been widely discussed, little attention has been paid to the sites from where and to which data flow. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in two connected data-intensive laboratories and the concept of domestication, we explore what it takes to bring data 'home' into the laboratory. As data come and dwell in the home
-
The politics of face and the trouble with race: Exploring relations at the interface between the individual and the collective in forensic practice. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Amade M'charek,Irene van Oorschot
This special issue interrogates race through the lens of face. Its central faces are those in forensic settings. Promising immediate legibility and access to the individual suspect, forensic faces nevertheless mobilize a variety of collectives. We offer conceptual and methodological tools to examine the face as both an individual and a collective phenomenon, and demonstrate through detailed cases how
-
Governing beyond the project: Refocusing innovation governance in emerging science and technology funding. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Robert Dj Smith,Stefan Schäfer,Michael J Bernstein
This article analyses how a recent idiom of innovation governance, 'responsible innovation', is enacted in practice, how this shapes innovation processes, and what aspects of innovation are left untouched. Within this idiom, funders typically focus on one point in an innovation system: researchers in projects. However, the more transformational aspirations of responsible innovation are circumscribed
-
Curious about race: Generous methods and modes of knowing in practice. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Amade M'charek
What is race? And how does it figure in different scientific practices? To answer these questions, I suggest that we need to know race differently. Rather than defining race or looking for one conclusive answer to what it is, I propose methods that are open-ended, that allow us to follow race around, while remaining curious as to what it is. I suggest that we pursue generous methods. Drawing on empirical
-
How scientists become experts-or don't: Social organization of research and engagement in scientific advice in a toxicology laboratory. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 David Demortain
Certain fields of research are deeply shaped by their proximity with policy-makers and administrations. The so-called 'regulatory sciences' and their corresponding expert communities emerge from this intermediary space between science and policy. Social studies of expertise and scientific experts show, however, that modes of engagement with policy-making vary greatly from one scientist to another.
-
Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Tom Özden-Schilling
In the early 2010s, a spectacular fall in prices for a class of mineral commodities called the rare earth elements (REEs) and the collapse of hundreds of new exploration companies made clear the fragility of the high-risk markets around these companies and the strategies of legitimation that supported them. New regulatory processes built around technical disclosures generated vast stores of geotechnical
-
Unclearing the air: Data's unexpected limitations for environmental advocacy. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Dawn Nafus
What makes one dataset powerful for civic advocacy, and another fall flat? Drawing from a citizen science project on environmental health, I argue that there is an underacknowledged quality of datasets-their topology-that shapes the social, cultural, and political possibilities they can sustain or subvert. Data topologies are formal qualities of a dataset that connect data collectors' intentions with
-
Checking correctness in mathematical peer review. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Christian Greiffenhagen
Mathematics is often treated as different from other disciplines, since arguments in the field rely on deductive proof rather than empirical evidence as in the natural sciences. A mathematical paper can therefore, at least in principle, be replicated simply by reading it. While this distinction is sometimes taken as the basis to claim that the results in mathematics are therefore certain, mathematicians
-
Enrolling the body as active agent in cancer treatment: Tracing immunotherapy metaphors and materialities. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Julia Swallow
Immunotherapy is heralded as the 'fifth pillar' of cancer therapy, after surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and genomic medicine. It involves 'harnessing' patients' own immune system T-cells to treat cancer. In this article, I draw on qualitative interviews with practitioners working in oncology and patients in the UK, to trace metaphorical and discursive framing around immunotherapy. Immunotherapy
-
Stakeholder engagement does not guarantee impact: A co-productionist perspective on model-based drought research. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Catharina Landström,Eric Sarmiento,Sarah J Whatmore
Stakeholder engagement has become a watchword for environmental scientists to assert the societal relevance of their projects to funding agencies. In water research based on computer simulation modelling, stakeholder engagement has attracted interest as a means to overcome low uptake of new tools for water management. An increasingly accepted view is that more and better stakeholder involvement in
-
Interfacing AlphaGo: Embodied play, object agency, and algorithmic drama. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Philippe Sormani
For decades, playing Go at a professional level has counted among those things that, in Dreyfus's words, 'computers still can't do'. This changed dramatically in early March 2016, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, South Korea, when AlphaGo, the most sophisticated Go program at the time, beat Lee Sedol, an internationally top-ranked Go professional, by four games to one. A documentary movie has captured
-
Enabling 'AI'? The situated production of commensurabilities. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Florian Jaton,Philippe Sormani
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
-
Groundwork for AI: Enforcing a benchmark for neoantigen prediction in personalized cancer immunotherapy. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Florian Jaton
This article expands on recent studies of machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that crucially depend on benchmark datasets, often called 'ground truths.' These ground-truth datasets gather input-data and output-targets, thereby establishing what can be retrieved computationally and evaluated statistically. I explore the case of the Tumor nEoantigen SeLection Alliance (TESLA)
-
And say the AI responded? Dancing around 'autonomy' in AI/human encounters. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Emma Dahlin
The article explores technology-human relations in a time of artificial intelligence (AI) and in the context of long-standing problems in social theory about agency, nonhumans, and autonomy. Most theorizations of AI are grounded in dualistic thinking and traditional views of technology, oversimplifying real-world settings. This article works to unfold modes of existence at play in AI/human relations
-
Inside regular lab meetings: The social construction of a research team and ideas in optical physics. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Axel Philipps,Laura Paruschke
Scheduled meetings are associated with standardization and understood as a bureaucratic form of coordination, control, and rule observation. In attending assemblies of a research team in optical physics for over a year, we found regular lab meetings are compulsory for all their members and are an avenue to announce and give information about new and changed institutional regulations, to supervise members'
-
'Is your accuser me, or is it the software?' Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Hannah Pullen-Blasnik,Gil Eyal,Amy Weissenbach
What happens when an algorithm is added to the work of an expert group? This study explores how algorithms pose a practical problem for experts. We study the introduction of a Probabilistic DNA Profiling (PDP) software into a forensics lab through interviews and court admissibility hearings. While meant to support experts' decision-making, in practice it has destabilized their authority. They respond
-
Total life insurance: Logics of anticipatory control and actuarial governance in insurance technology. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Jathan Sadowski
Calling attention to the growing intersection between the insurance and technology sectors-or 'insurtech'-this article is intended as a bat signal for the interdisciplinary fields that have spent recent decades studying the explosion of digitization, datafication, smartification, automation, and so on. Many of the dynamics that attract people to researching technology are exemplified, often in exaggerated
-
Close to the metal: Towards a material political economy of the epistemology of computation. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Ludovico Rella
This paper investigates the role of the materiality of computation in two domains: blockchain technologies and artificial intelligence (AI). Although historically designed as parallel computing accelerators for image rendering and videogames, graphics processing units (GPUs) have been instrumental in the explosion of both cryptoasset mining and machine learning models. The political economy associated
-
Readjusting observational grids in dragonfly field guides. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Sander Turnhout,Willem Halffman
Wildlife field guide books present salient features of species, from colour and form to behaviour, and give their readers a vocabulary to express what these features look like. Such structures for observation, or observational grids, allow users to identify wildlife species through what Law and Lynch have called 'the difference that makes the difference'. In this article, we show how these grids, and
-
Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Anissa Tanweer,James Steinhoff
As a nascent field within the academy, the contours, attributes, and bounties of data science are still indeterminate and contested. We studied how participants in an initiative to establish data science at a large American research university defined data science and articulated their relationships to the field. We discuss two contrasting visions for data science among our research participants. One
-
From 'making lists' to conducting 'well-rounded' studies: Epistemic re-orientations in soil microbial ecology. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Ruth Falkenberg,Lisa Sigl,Maximilian Fochler
Soil microbial ecology is a relatively young research field that became established around the middle of the 20th century and has grown considerably since then. We analyze two epistemic re-orientations in the field, asking how possibilities for creating do-able problems within current conditions of research governance and researchers' collective sense-making about new, more desirable modes of research
-
After biosovereignty: The material transfer agreement as technology of relations. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Sonja van Wichelen
Increasingly, countries in the Global South-notably South Africa, Brazil, and Indonesia-are introducing material transfer agreements (MTAs) into their domestic laws for the exchange of scientific material. The MTA is a contract securing the legal transfer of tangible research material between organizations such as laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, or universities. Critical commentators argue
-
Infrastructuring European scientific integration: Heterogeneous meanings of the European biobanking infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Erik Aarden
While transnational research infrastructure projects long preceded the formal integration process that created the European Union, their advancement is an increasingly central part of EU research policy and of European integration in general. This paper analyses the Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure-European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC) as a recent example
-
'Consent' as epistemic recognition: Indigenous knowledges, Canadian impact assessment, and the colonial liberal democratic order. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Alana Lajoie-O'Malley,Kelly Bronson,Gwendolyn Blue
This article unpacks the logic of the equivalence invoked by the Government of Canada between Indigenous consent and the inclusion of Indigenous peoples and knowledges in impact assessment. We situate the logic within the politics of recognition in Canada-a politics that aims to shore up national unity in the face of regular challenges to it. We use the Canadian results from a recent scoping review
-
Eye for an AI: More-than-seeing, fauxtomation, and the enactment of uncertain data in digital pathology Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Chiara Carboni, Rik Wehrens, Romke van der Veen, Antoinette de Bont
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are being developed to assist with increasingly complex diagnostic tasks in medicine. This produces epistemic disruption in diagnostic processes, even in the abse...
-
Training scenes: Taking science studies to the classroom Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Kris Decker, Christoph Hoffmann
Academic training, especially at the undergraduate level, is a marginal topic in science studies today. Scientific practices have commonly been approached through studies of research contexts—most ...
-
Executive-centered AI? Designing predictive systems for the public sector Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Anne Henriksen, Lasse Blond
Recent policies and research articles call for turning AI into a form of IA (‘intelligence augmentation’), by envisioning systems that center on and enhance humans. Based on a field study at an AI ...
-
Making a ‘sex-difference fact’: Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women’s health, and biology Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Helen Zhao, Marina DiMarco, Kelsey Ichikawa, Marion Boulicault, Meg Perret, Kai Jillson, Alexandra Fair, Kai DeJesus, Sarah S. Richardson
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2013 decision to lower recommended Ambien dosing for women has been widely cited as a hallmark example of the importance of sex differences in biomedic...
-
Making a 'sex-difference fact': Ambien dosing at the interface of policy, regulation, women's health, and biology. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Helen Zhao,Marina DiMarco,Kelsey Ichikawa,Marion Boulicault,Meg Perret,Kai Jillson,Alexandra Fair,Kai DeJesus,Sarah S Richardson
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) 2013 decision to lower recommended Ambien dosing for women has been widely cited as a hallmark example of the importance of sex differences in biomedicine. Using regulatory documents, scientific publications, and media coverage, this article analyzes the making of this highly influential and mobile 'sex-difference fact'. As we show, the FDA's decision was
-
Data as symptom: Doctors’ responses to patient-provided data in general practice Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Christoffer Bjerre Haase, Rola Ajjawi, Margaret Bearman, John Brandt Brodersen, Torsten Risor, Klaus Hoeyer
People are increasingly able to generate their own health data through new technologies such as wearables and online symptom checkers. However, generating data is one thing, interpreting them anoth...
-
Data as symptom: Doctors' responses to patient-provided data in general practice. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Christoffer Bjerre Haase,Rola Ajjawi,Margaret Bearman,John Brandt Brodersen,Torsten Risor,Klaus Hoeyer
People are increasingly able to generate their own health data through new technologies such as wearables and online symptom checkers. However, generating data is one thing, interpreting them another. General practitioners (GPs) are likely to be the first to help with interpretations. Policymakers in the European Union are investing heavily in infrastructures to provide GPs access to patient measurements
-
The multistability of predictive technology in nuclear disasters Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Shin-etsu Sugawara
Postphenomenological studies have explored technological mediation between the human body and the world by analysing the bodily experience of the world. Applying this analytical perspective to pred...
-
The multistability of predictive technology in nuclear disasters. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Shin-Etsu Sugawara
Postphenomenological studies have explored technological mediation between the human body and the world by analysing the bodily experience of the world. Applying this analytical perspective to predictive technology requires some expansions because humans cannot directly experience the future world. I conceptualize pre-spectival focus, which refers to how human attention is directed to the making-future-present
-
Mistrust: Community engagement in global health research in coastal Kenya Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Salla Sariola
This article explores a case of mistrust in global health research and community engagement. It uses ethnographic material collected in 2014 and 2016 in Kenya, concerning community engagement by a ...
-
Mistrust: Community engagement in global health research in coastal Kenya. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Salla Sariola
This article explores a case of mistrust in global health research and community engagement. It uses ethnographic material collected in 2014 and 2016 in Kenya, concerning community engagement by a HIV vaccine research group working with men who have sex with men and transgender women. In 2010, the research group was attacked by members of the wider community. Following the attack, the research group
-
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Adam Hedgecoe, Kathleen Job, Angus Clarke
In genomics, the clinical application of Next Generation Sequencing technologies (such as Whole Genome or Exome Sequencing) has attracted considerable attention from UK policymakers, interested in ...
-
Reflexive standardization and the resolution of uncertainty in the genomics clinic. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Adam Hedgecoe,Kathleen Job,Angus Clarke
In genomics, the clinical application of Next Generation Sequencing technologies (such as Whole Genome or Exome Sequencing) has attracted considerable attention from UK policymakers, interested in the benefits such technologies could bring the National Health Service. However, this boosterism plays little attention to the challenges raised by a kind of result known as a Variant of Uncertain Significance
-
Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Madeleine Akrich
-
Exercises in irreduction: Some Latourian favourites. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Casper Bruun Jensen
-
Mobile researchers, immobile data: Managing data (producers) Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Stefan Reichmann
Scientific institutions have increasingly embraced formalized research data management strategies, which involve complex social practices of codifying the tacit dimensions of data practices. Severa...
-
Ethics governance development: The case of the Menlo Report Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Megan Finn, Katie Shilton
The 2012 Menlo Report was an effort in which a group of computer scientists, US government funders, and lawyers produced ethics guidelines for research in information and communications technology ...
-
InterFaces: On the relationality of vision, face and race in practices of identification. A multimodal intervention Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Ildikó Zonga Plájás
This article problematizes vision in practices of identification. It draws on the metaphor of the ‘interface’ to emphasize that vision emerges ‘in between’ eyes, faces, bodies, objects and ideas of...
-
Let’s agree to agree: The situational academic quality of the UK REF as consensual public knowledge Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Sveta Milyaeva, Daniel Neyland
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a UK policy tool for distributing government funding and an important indicator of the academic status of a UK university. The legitimacy of the policy co...
-
Scientific conferences, socialization, and the Covid-19 pandemic: A conceptual and empirical enquiry Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Harry Collins, Willow Leonard-Clarke, Will Mason-Wilkes
Since the 1970s social analysts have seen communication between scientists not solely as information exchange (the algorithmical model), but as a process of socialization into overlapping and mutua...
-
Values and vendettas: Populist science governance in Mexico Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Luis Reyes-Galindo
This article aims to diversify STS perspectives on populism by addressing a sequence of episodes of Mexican science policy in terms of clashes between populism and scientific communities. The artic...
-
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Morana Alač
The article attends to everyday practices in a laboratory of neural genetics that studies olfaction, with the fruit fly as its model organism. Practices in neural genetics exhibit one of the ‘post’...
-
Biopolitics and speculative objects in Chilean health projects Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Jorge Castillo-Sepúlveda, Francisco Tirado, Ana Gálvez
‘Biopolitics’ is a much-used concept in recent academic literature. One of its main fields of application is in the analysis of public health projects. This article analyses the national Explicit H...
-
In Memoriam: Bruno Latour (22 June 1947 - 9 October 2022). Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Sergio Sismondo
-
Biopolitics and speculative objects in Chilean health projects. Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Jorge Castillo-Sepúlveda,Francisco Tirado,Ana Gálvez
'Biopolitics' is a much-used concept in recent academic literature. One of its main fields of application is in the analysis of public health projects. This article analyses the national Explicit Health Guarantees project in Chile from that perspective. However, we criticize the standard invocation of 'biopolitics' by observing that such public health projects require technoscientific operations that
-
When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 George Cusworth, Jeremy Brice, Jamie Lorimer, Tara Garnett
The metrics used in environmental management are performative. That is, the tools deployed to classify and measure the natural world interact with the things they were designed to observe. The idea...
-
Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Abigail Nieves Delgado
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a common statistical procedure. In forensics, it is used in facial recognition technologies and composite sketching systems. PCA is especially helpful in conte...
-
Staging Paro: The care of making robot(s) care Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Martin Chevallier
Paro, a baby seal robot, is arguably the best-known care robot worldwide. Its clinical effects on people with special needs have been studied for more than twenty years by multidisciplinary teams. ...
-
The Big Flush of Montreal: On affective maintenance and infrastructural events Social Studies of Science (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Kregg Hetherington, Elie Jalbert
This article is about a brief controversy that erupted in 2015 around the City of Montreal’s plan to divert 8 billion liters of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River while it conducted critical ma...