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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"social studies of science"”.
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A Future Archaeology of the Mobile Telecoms Industry.
… were investing in a future, in a specific story of the future, a story of ubiquitous wireless telecommunications. The thesis addresses questions raised in social studies of science and technology as to how such a future is made in everyday practices inside the industry, and how this future might …
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Corporeal Colonialism: Medicine, Reproduction, and Race in Colonial Korea
… to the scholarly literature in both cultural and social studies of science in Korea and the global history of colonialism, science, and gender. Foremost, my work demonstrates the colonial origin of Western medical intervention in the physical and sexual well being of Korean women and maps out the …
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A social study of women in contemporary biological sciences
I interviewed women in different fields of biological science and analyzed the interview data by picking out emerging themes. I compared these themes with issues in the feminist literature and with accounts from the social studies of science. Women in biology are far from developing alternative …
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Appropriating Wittgenstein: Patterns of Influence and Citation in Realist and Social Constructivist Accounts of Science
… I draw attention to patterns at the intersection of (a) interpretations of science in two journals (Philosophy of Science, and Social Studies of Science) and (b) references to Wittgenstein's writings. Interpretations of science can be classed according to the degree to which they support a realist …
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Sex! Aliens! Harvard? Rhetorical boundary-work in the media (a case study of the role of journalists in the social construction of scientific authority)
With science and the media playing prominent roles in contemporary life, it is important to understand the cultural authority of science and the role of the media in maintaining this authority. This paper will report on a case study of journalists' participation in the social construction of …
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Making Stem Cell Niches: An Ethnography of Regenerative Medicine in Scotland and the United States
… thesis presents the findings from an ethnography of stem cell science based on fieldwork with researchers in two connected laboratories in Scotland and the United States. It explores stem cell scientists' complicated interactions with live stem cell cultures within national projects of …
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The Social Movement World(s) of UK Heterodox Economics: Constitution, Aims and Practices
… presents a systematic, empirically grounded, social-scientific account of UK heterodox economics. It does so by addressing three central questions: (1) How is UK heterodox economics constituted in discourse and in practice? (2) What does UK heterodox economics aim to achieve? and (3) How do …
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Tecnologías en tiempos del Covid-19: Un problema de salud global. Las Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos (UCI) como actantes sociales en la pandemia, analizadas desde las perspectivas de la Teoría Actor-Red
… es analizar el rol de las UCI como actantes sociales dentro de una red de relaciones, en la atención a la emergencia sanitaria generada por el COVID -19 durante el primer año de la pandemia en Colombia. Este análisis se desarrolla en tres apartados. El primero, menciona los puntos clave de …
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Automating Education: Investigating the emergence of Artificial Intelligence in education governance
… processes in education. In the wake of this intensify-ing uptake, this thesis seeks to understand how AI is making a difference in how education comes to be understood, lived, and governed. To make sense of and follow the involvement of AI in educational decision-making processes, it …