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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Science and Technology Studies (STS)"”.
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Beyond Prediction: Climate Change Adaptation, Science & Technology Studies (STS), and Transformational Change
… is a priority for researchers, policymakers, and the public. Adaptation practices, however, have largely failed to keep pace with climate change risks and deliver the systemic changes required to reduce vulnerability. Critical scholarship has focused on conventional planning and …
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Accelerating Innovation: Assessing Nanotechnologies, Prototypes and Research Teams
… established at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002. Using Science and Technology Studies (STS) concepts from Actor-Network Theory, I study the founding era of this twenty-first century laboratory-based community, from 2002-2007. Actor-Network concepts of enrollment and …
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Fired Up: Scales of Safety and Federal Wildland Fire Management in the U.S.
The wildland fire environment in the U.S. is becoming increasingly complex due to a century of fire suppression policies, development in wildland-urban interface areas, and an expected increase in fire activity due to climate change. As more attention is focused on wildfire management, the role of …
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Operationalizing Data Culture: The US Army's Engagements With Data Science 1961-2023
… frames what an institution values, reveres, and rewards. It emerges over an extended period, sometimes deliberately, often indirectly. As a subset of organizational culture, a common understanding of both data and culture is needed in order to build the data culture the Army desires. This …
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"Doing" Theory and Practice: Steps Toward a More Productive Relationship Between Science and Technology Studies and Nontraditional Science Education Practices
Explores the relationship between nontraditional science education practices, structured by campaigns such as Public Understanding of Science (PUS) and Scientific Literacy (SL), and the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), using ethnographic work with the Choices and Challenges Project at …
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Naturalism & Objectivity: Methods and Meta-methods
… account provides a basic account of evidence and inference. Formally, the approach is a re-interpretation of standard frequentist (Fisherian, Neyman-Pearson) statistics. Informally, it gives an account of inductive inference based on arguing from error, an analog of frequentist statistics, …
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Mapping the Technology Beat: Technology Reporting at the Chicago Tribune
Since the field's inception, Science and Technology Studies (STS) has grappled with the task of creating suitable definitions of the terms "science" and "technology," but the discourse has become cyclical and unproductive. By focusing on real-world applications of these terms, through a case study …
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System Override: A Critical Virtual Ethnography of Women of Color's Digital Praxis in Horizon Worlds
… how women of color navigate, resist, and transform the sociotechnical architectures of social virtual reality platforms, with a primary focus on Meta’s Horizon Worlds. Employing a critical virtual ethnography grounded in Black feminist and decolonized methodologies, the study draws on …
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The Gatekeeping Paradigm and the Constructivist Alternative
Science and technology have become indispensable elements of virtually every public debate. While nations strive to employ the best experts to make timely decisions, discontented citizens increasingly demand better accountability and democratic legitimacy through broad and direct public …
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Rethinking Urban Risk And Adaptation: The Politics Of Vulnerability In Informal Urban Settlements
… but the linkages between state governance and vulnerability in this setting remain under-researched. In particular, as more urban governments develop climate risk assessments, questions arise about how risks are defined, the politics behind the processes of risk definition, and the impact …
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An Examination of the Evolution of Broadband Technologies in the UK
… Line (DSL) became the most widely used technology to deliver broadband connectivity in the United Kingdom (UK). The research examines the outcome starting with events in 1960s when broadband as it is defined today did not exist. The research shows that a combination of factors involving …
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Social and epistemological bases of technology transfer: The case of artificial intelligence
… thesis addresses a problem in the literature on technology transfer of understanding the local appropriation of knowledge. Based on interpretive and analytic traditions developed in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and ethnomethodology, I conceptualise technology transfer as involving …
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Islam and the Social Construction of Risk: A Discourse Analysis of the Fatwa to the Muria Nuclear Power Plant in Indonesia
… the Indonesia National Nuclear Energy Agency and the the Ulama of Pengurus Cabang Nahdlatul Ulama (PCNU, the Islamic scholars of District Branch of Nahdlatul Ulama) Jepara’s different risk assessments of the purposed nuclear power plant in Muria, Indonesia. Using a discourse analysis combined …
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Morality In Action: Risking Death And Caring For Life In American Food Allergy Worlds
… United States, a state of affairs which activists publicize in highly moral terms, based on multi-sited ethnographic research conducted from 2013 to 2016. I argue that the moral framing of this apparent threat to health by mothers, sufferers, and activists is strategic, leveraging gendered …
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Send in the Clowns: Scoping Non-Representational Theory as Ally and Method to Foster Inclusiveness in Digital Innovation
… explored the subject of ‘digital innovation’ and ‘innovating in the digital’. The digital in this context is interpreted in the widest possible sense and includes any instance where cybertechnology relates to/with humans. This framing has put forward my proposed concept of the digiscape; a …
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Assisting Technology: Disability Expertise and Labor in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Work in China
… enrolled by government programs, corporations, and NGOs to classify and label training data for AI systems. This thesis offers an ethnographic account of one of these programs, combining insights from science and technology studies (STS), critical disability studies, and digital labor …
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Knowledge Controversies and Renewable Energy Transition: Exploring Science and Policy Debates
… promote a transition to greater reliance on wind and solar power in Ontario, Canada. Drawing on conceptual frameworks from science and technology studies (STS), human geography and socio-technical transition studies, it provides new insights into the dynamics and impact of debates over the cost …
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Remediated pilgrimage to the Shrine of Imam Reza
… of pilgrimage practices through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). If mediation is the engine of subject and object formation, the relationship between human and non-human aspects of the world, representations and experiences, meanings and interpretations, then remediation is …
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Latinas in telecommunications: intersectional experiences in the Bell system
… a consent decree with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). The consent decree settled a lawsuit built on years of discrimination against white women and women and men of color, opening the largest private sector employer to underrepresented people. With this suit and …
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Ecologies of digital mapping: Open source communities and grassroots maps
This dissertation explores the work and practices (both online and offline) of digital mapping communities in matters of disaster management, environmental justice, and grassroots activism. My interest in these communities stems from their drive to integrate considerations of the lifeworld, in the …
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