scholarly journals An introduction to Crafting Sustainability – exploring the interconnections between sustainability and craft

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Roger Andre Søraa ◽  
Håkon Fyhn
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Problems And Solutions

Sustainability has become a critical issue, calling for new conceptualizations of both problems and solutions. This special issue of the Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies,  explore the concept of “Crafting Sustainability”. Sustainability is a hot topic in contemporary scholarly debates, with methodological, theoretical, and conceptual contributions from a wide array of research areas, also from Science and Technology Studies. Craft on the other hand has been less of a focal point, although all humans relate to craft on some level.

Introduction: Shifting Attention

2021 ◽  
pp. 016224392110588
Author(s):  
Rebecca Jablonsky ◽  
Tero Karppi ◽  
Nick Seaver
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Human Attention ◽  
Attention Economy ◽  
The Many

In recent years, attention has become a matter of increasing public concern. New digital technologies have transformed human attention materially and discursively, reorganizing perceptual practices and inciting debates about them. The essays in this special issue emerged from a set of panels focused on attention at the 4S conference in New Orleans in 2019. They are all, in various ways, concerned with shifts among attention’s many meanings: between payment and care, instinct and agency, or vulnerability and power. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS) sensibilities, these pieces examine how scientific and technical actors are invested in theorizing and capturing attention, while simultaneously engendering new forms of care, resistance, and critique. At a moment where the attention economy appears to be in transformative crisis, this collection maps a set of incipient directions that ask us to pay attention to not only attention itself but also to the many sociotechnical settings where experts and publics are shifting attention’s meaning and value.

scholarly journals Animation and Automation – The Liveliness and Labours of Bodies and Machines

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jackie Stacey ◽  
Lucy Suchman
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Production History ◽  
Relevant Work

Written as the introduction to a special issue of Body & Society on the topic of animation and automation, this article considers the interrelation of those two terms through readings of relevant work in film studies and science and technology studies (STS), inflected through recent scholarship on the body. Drawing upon historical and contemporary examples, we trace how movement is taken as a sign of life, while living bodies are translated through the mechanisms of artifice. Whereas film studies has drawn upon work ranging from production history to semiotics and psychoanalysis to conceptualize the ways in which the appearance of life on the cinema screen materializes subjectivities beyond it, STS has developed a corpus of theoretical and empirical scholarship that works to refigure material-semiotic entanglements of subjects and objects. In approaching animation and automation through insights developed within these two fields we hope to bring them into closer dialogue with each other and with studies of the body, given the convergence of their shared concerns with affective materializations of life. More specifically, an interest in the moving capacities of animation, and in what gets rendered invisible in discourses of automation, is central to debates regarding the interdependencies of bodies and machines. Animation is always in the end a relational effect, it seems, while automation implies the continuing presence of hidden labour and care.

scholarly journals The seven rules for hydrologists and other researchers wanting to contribute to the water management practice

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 843-864
Author(s):  
E. Mostert ◽  
G. T. Raadgever
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Research Utilization ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Water Management Practice ◽  
Specific Expertise ◽  
Made In

Abstract. This paper addresses the question how hydrologists and other researchers can best contribute to the water management practice. It reviews the literature in the field of science and technology studies and research utilization and presents the results in the form of seven "rules" for researchers. These are (1) Reflect on the nature and possible roles of research; (2) Analyse the stakeholders and issues at stake; (3) Choose whom and what to serve; (4) Decide on your strategy; (5) Design the process to implement your strategy; (6) Communicate!; and (7) Consider your possibilities and limitations. Key notions in this paper are that research always involves selection and interpretation and that the selection and interpretations made in a specific case always reflect the values and preferences of those involved. Collaboration between the researchers and the other stakeholders can increase the legitimacy and utilization of the research and can prevent that the specific expertise of the researchers is lost.

Science and Documentary: Unity, Indexicality, Reality

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Malitsky
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Image Management ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Alternative Framework ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Multiple Strategies ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Truth Claims

This article serves as an introduction to this Special Issue and explores in depth three concepts integral to the links between science and documentary: unity, indexicality, and reality. After outlining how and why the ‘scientific’ has been conceived as a problem in scholarship on documentary, the author offers an alternative framework based on recent scholarship in science and technology studies. This model seeks to account for the value of critiques of scientific approaches while recognizing the ways in which scientists have developed methods of image management that maintain the usefulness of their evidence while simultaneously recognizing the contingency of their truth claims. The author proposes that a conception of indexicality as both trace and deixis provides one tool for understanding the multiple strategies that scientists employ to figure reality.

scholarly journals Building Bridges

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-143
Author(s):  
Stefan Laser
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
The One

This paper discusses three recent book publications devoted to a detailed description and reflection of methodology. These are three different contributions that focus on different disciplinary approaches to STS methods: sociology (via Meier zu Verl's monograph "Daten-Karrieren und epistemische Materialität" [Data Careers and Epistemic Materiality]), cultural anthropology (represented by Estalella's and Criado's edited volume "Experimental Collaborations") and, across these discussions, an interdisciplinary lens (brought in by Wiedmann et al.'s "Wie forschen mit den' Science and Technology Studies'?" [How to do research with 'Science and Technology Studies'?]). Based on these publications, a transformation of STS method reflection can be traced. We have now arrived at the gratifying state that the methods literature aims to build bridges to mediate between methodological ideals on the one hand and research realities on the other. At the same time, the field creatively reflects on the diverse effects of STS method practices.

scholarly journals Cybersecurity Research Meets Science and Technology Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myriam Dunn Cavelty
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Circulation Of Knowledge

This article sets out to show how different understandings of technology as suggested by Science and Technology Studies (STS) help reveal different political facets of cybersecurity. Using cybersecurity research as empirical site, it is shown that two separate ways of understanding cybertechnologies are prevalent in society. The primary one sees cybertechnologies as apolitical, flawed, material objects that need to be fixed in order to create more security; the other understands them as mere political tools in the hands of social actors without considering technological (im)possibilities. This article suggests a focus on a third understanding to bridge the uneasy gap between the two others: technology defined as an embodiment of societal knowledge. The article posits that in line with that, the study of cyberpolitics would benefit from two innovations: a focus on cybersecurity as social practice―enacted and stabilized through the circulation of knowledge about vulnerabilities―and a focus on the practices employed in the discovery, exploitation and removal of those vulnerabilities.

scholarly journals Recent research on the aesthetics of knowledge in science and in religion

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arianna Borrelli ◽  
Alexandra Grieser
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Current Special Issue

As an introduction to the case studies collected in the current special issue, this review article provides a brief, and by no means exhaustive, overview of research that proves to be relevant to the development of a concept of an aesthetics of knowledge in the academic study of religion and in science and technology studies. Finally, it briefly discusses recent work explicitly addressing the aesthetic entangle-ment of science and religion.

Outlining the Black Box: An Introduction to Four Papers

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-574
Author(s):  
Matthew Shindell
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
History Of

This is an introduction to a special issue devoted to the black box metaphor in science and technology studies (STS). The author briefly addresses the history of the metaphor and its use in the STS community and provides commentary on four papers contributed by Elizabeth Petrick, Rodolfo Alaniz, Caitlin Wylie, and Valentina Marcheselli.

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