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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Sociotechnical Imaginaries"”.
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The Politics of Scale and Scaling in Chinese Governance and Venture Capitalism
… domain-specific applications, and show how sociotechnical imaginaries influenced and informed by these technologies crucially lend scientific authority to ways of configuring and organizing society. I highlight how "successful models that mostly fail" –— modes of operation involving massive …
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Co-production of Science and Regulation: Radiation Health and the Linear No-Threshold Model
… discourses, and representations, and the sociotechnical imaginaries animating the use of those instruments, that culminated in a regulatory system centered on the linear no-threshold dose-response model and the As Low As Reasonably Achievable philosophy. The science of radiation health …
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Urban Green Assemblage: A Machinic-MLG Approach to Green Cities
… upon urban solutions, through urban futures and sociotechnical imaginaries such as the green city agenda. The thesis critically examines the green city agenda in its presumptive context of a multi-level governance often characterised by humans enacting upon the city infrastructure. Through the …
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Can hype be a force for good?
… a conceptual framework that adopts research on sociotechnical imaginaries, anticipatory governance, and notions of convening publics. I use this framework to argue that hype is a communicative device that can spark unexpected engagement with science and technology futures. I test this framework …
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Can hype be a force for good?
… a conceptual framework that adopts research on sociotechnical imaginaries, anticipatory governance, and notions of convening publics. I use this framework to argue that hype is a communicative device that can spark unexpected engagement with science and technology futures. I test this framework …
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The Fusion Enterprise Paradox: The Enduring Vision and Elusive Goal of Unlimited Clean Energy
… cycles? Adapting Sheila Jasanoff's thesis of "sociotechnical imaginaries", I examine the relationship of shared and contrasting visions, co-produced expressions of nature and society, and distinctpolitical cultures in the quest for viable fusion. A systematic cultural and technological …
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A Comparative Case Study of Enhanced Geothermal Systems: Interacting Imaginaries of Place and Energy in Renewable Energy Transitions
… of such technologies. Prior research has used sociotechnical imaginaries – collectively-held visions of desirable futures and roles of technology – to understand trajectories of energy development regionally and nationally, while others have explored the influence of place and identity on local …
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Infrastructural Imaginaries: Highways and the Sociotechnical Production of Space in Baltimore
… system. I introduce the term infrastructural imaginaries to account for how the proposal or construction of spatially embedded systems seeks to transform lived material and geographic arrangements. The concept of infrastructural imaginaries expands upon Sheila Jasanoff and San-Hyun Kim's …
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The Globalization of Artificial Intelligence: African Imaginaries of Technoscientific Futures
Imaginaries of artificial intelligence (AI) have transcended geographies of the Global North and become increasingly entangled with narratives of economic growth, progress, and modernity in Africa. This raises several issues such as the entanglement of AI with global technoscientific capitalism and …
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Belief, Values, Bias, and Agency: Development of and Entanglement with "Artificial Intelligence"
… embedded within and crucial to understanding the sociotechnical imaginaries animating many technologies, particularly in the areas of "AI." In fact, it is precisely the unwillingness of many to confront these facts which allow for both the problems of prejudice embedded in algorithmic systems, and …
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Reviving Dams: A Relational Technopolitics of Hydropower in the Himalaya
… practices, and reflects on the significance of sociotechnical imaginaries, discourses, geopolitical and historical conditions, and tensions in explaining the processes and consequences of mega dams as ‘development solutions’. As well as exploring the transnational circuits of planning and …
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Imagining an Astronaut: Space Flight and the Production of Korea's Future
… Astronaut Program (KAP) using the concepts of sociotechnical imaginaries, sociotechnical vanguards, and the construction of expertise. Based on documentary analysis and oral interviews, this research considers KAP as an example of how the visions of sociotechnical vanguards conflict and their …
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National aspirations, imagined futures, and space exploration: The origin and development of Korean Space Program 1958-2013
The goal of my dissertation is to describe the history of the South Korean1 space program and to use it to offer some insights on reframing space history from a global point of view. South Korea is a new player among the space faring nations. While some of the necessary infrastructure was put in …
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Sharing the Shuttle with America: NASA and Public Engagement after Apollo
… space program, the Space Shuttle. Adopting a sociotechnical imaginary featuring the Shuttle as a versatile technology that promised something for everyone, NASA sought to engage citizens with the Shuttle in ways appealing to their varied, expressed interests and became dependent on some …
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The making, mobility, and mutation of the “Amazonian bioeconomy” in Brazil: A processualist analysis of an emergent economic imaginary
… debates around the stability and change of sociotechnical and political economic orders through an empirical, qualitative study of the making, mobilisation, and mutation of the “Amazonian bioeconomy” (AB) in Brazil. The AB is an emergent economic imaginary that seeks to reconcile economic …