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Autoconstruction of the Media City: Tracing the Routes of Electronic Devices in the Global South
Harvard GSD New Geographies
Prieto-Nanez, Fabian
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Prieto-Nanez, Fabian [0000-0003-1156-7611]
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Cultivating intellectual community in academia: reflections from the Science and Technology Studies Food and Agriculture Network (STSFAN)
Agriculture and Human Values
Burch, Karly
Gugganig, Mascha
Guthman, Julie
Reisman, Emily
Comi, Matt
Brock, Samara
Kagliwal, Barkha
Freidberg, Susanne
Baur, Patrick
Heimstaedt, Cornelius
Sippel, Sarah Ruth
Speakman, Kelsey
Marquis, Sarah
Arguelles, Lucia
Biltekoff, Charlotte
Broad, Garrett
Bronson, Kelly
Faxon, Hilary
Frohlich, Xaq
Ghosh, Ritwick
Halfon, Saul
Legun, Katharine
Martin, Sarah J.
Intellectual communities
communities of practice
academic writing
science and technology studies (STS)
agri-food
Scholarship flourishes in inclusive environments where open deliberations and generative feedback expand both individual and collective thinking. Many researchers, however, have limited access to such settings, and most conventional academic conferences fall short of promises to provide them. We have written this Field Report to share our methods for cultivating a vibrant intellectual community within the Science and Technology Studies Food and Agriculture Network (STSFAN). This is paired with insights from 21 network members on aspects that have allowed STSFAN to thrive, even amid a global pandemic. Our hope is that these insights will encourage others to cultivate their own intellectual communities, where they too can receive the support they need to deepen their scholarship and strengthen their intellectual relationships.
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2024-03-11T13:05:50Z
2024-03-11T13:05:50Z
2023-05
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0889-048X
PMC10150343
10439 (PII)
https://hdl.handle.net/10919/118302
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10439-1
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Halfon, Saul [0000-0001-5630-3164]
37359841
1572-8366
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37359841
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Pages 951-959
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Epistemic Burdens and the Value of Ignorance
Olson, P.
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2016-12-31T16:51:14Z
2015-12-13
Book chapter
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The Future of Social Epistemology
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Collaborative Workshops for Community Meaning-Making and Data Analyses: How Focus Groups Strengthen Data by Enhancing Understanding and Promoting Use
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Allen, Barbara L.
Lees, Johanna
Cohen, Alison K.
Jeanjean, Maxime
community-based participatory research
data interpretation
environmental health
knowledge justice
public health
participatory science
Community-based participatory research is a growing approach, but often includes higher levels of community engagement in the research design and data collection stages than in the data interpretation stage. Involving study participants in this stage could further knowledge justice, science that aligns with and supports social justice agendas. This article reports on two community-based participatory environmental health surveys conducted between 2015 and 2019 in an industrial region near Marseille, France, and focuses specifically on our approach of organizing focus groups to directly involve residents and community stakeholders in the analysis and interpretation process. We found that, in these focus groups, residents triangulated across many different sources of information—study findings, local knowledge, and different types of expert knowledge—to reach conclusions about the health of their community and make recommendations for what should be done to improve community health outcomes. We conclude that involving residents in the data analysis and interpretation stage can promote epistemic justice and lead to final reports that are more useful to community stakeholders and decision-makers.
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2019-09-23T14:15:16Z
2019-09-23T14:15:16Z
2019-09-11
2019-09-23T13:49:17Z
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Allen, B.L.; Lees, J.; Cohen, A.K.; Jeanjean, M. Collaborative Workshops for Community Meaning-Making and Data Analyses: How Focus Groups Strengthen Data by Enhancing Understanding and Promoting Use. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 3352.
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/93970
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16183352
Allen, Barbara L. [0000-0001-8200-2066]
en
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Redes compartidas de tseltales y zapotecos: Los caminos hacia un internet pluriversal
University of Pennsylvania's CARGC Working Paper Papers
Rosa, Fernanda R.
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2023-02-13T15:35:14Z
2023-02-13T15:35:14Z
2022
2023-02-10T22:49:35Z
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Ribeiro Rosa, Fernanda [0000-0001-6677-8403]
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CARGC Paper 18
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Cost-Effectiveness of Risk-Stratified Colorectal Cancer Screening Based on Polygenic Risk: Current Status and Future Potential
JNCI Cancer Spectrum
Naber, Steffie K.
Kundu, Suman
Kuntz, Karen M.
Dotson, W. David
Williams, Marc S.
Zauber, Ann G.
Calonge, Ned
Zallen, Doris T.
Ganiats, Theodore G.
Webber, Elizabeth M.
Goddard, Katrina A. B.
Henrikson, Nora B.
van Ballegooijen, Marjolein
Janssens, A. Cecile J. W.
Lansdorp-Vogelaar, Iris
Background: Although uniform colonoscopy screening reduces colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality, risk-based screening may be more efficient. We investigated whether CRC screening based on polygenic risk is a cost-effective alternative to current uniform screening, and if not, under what conditions it would be. Methods: The MISCAN-Colon model was used to simulate a hypothetical cohort of US 40-year-olds. Uniform screening was modeled as colonoscopy screening at ages 50, 60, and 70 years. For risk-stratified screening, individuals underwent polygenic testing with current and potential future discriminatory performance (area under the receiver-operating curve [AUC] of 0.60 and 0.65-0.80, respectively). Polygenic testing results were used to create risk groups, for which colonoscopy screening was optimized by varying the start age (40-60 years), end age (70-85 years), and interval (1-20 years). Results: With current discriminatory performance, optimal screening ranged from once-only colonoscopy at age 60 years for the lowest-risk group to six colonoscopies at ages 40-80 years for the highest-risk group. While maintaining the same health benefits, risk-stratified screening increased costs by $59 per person. Risk-stratified screening could become cost-effective if the AUC value would increase beyond 0.65, the price per polygenic test would drop to less than $141, or risk-stratified screening would lead to a 5% increase in screening participation. Conclusions: Currently, CRC screening based on polygenic risk is unlikely to be cost-effective compared with uniform screening. This is expected to change with a greater than 0.05 increase in AUC value, a greater than 30% reduction in polygenic testing costs, or a greater than 5% increase in adherence with screening.
National Cancer Institute as part of the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET) [U01CA152959]
This work was supported by the National Cancer Institute (grant number U01CA152959) as part of the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET), with a supplement from the Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention (EGAPP). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Cancer Institute or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
2020-05-19T14:56:33Z
2020-05-19T14:56:33Z
2020-02
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The element of the table: Visual discourse and the preperiodic representation of chemical classification
Configurations
Cohen, B. R.
Virginia Tech
revolution
chemistry
language
layers
2014-01-30T15:14:09Z
2014-01-30T15:14:09Z
2004
2014-01-31
Article - Refereed
Benjamin R. Cohen, "The element of the table: Visual discourse and the preperiodic representation of chemical classification", Configurations, xii (2004), 41-75, 10.1353/con.2005.0001.
1063-1801
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25225
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v012/12.1cohen.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2005.0001
en_US
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Johns Hopkins Univ Press
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/254792020-10-09T13:12:24Zcom_10919_24257com_10919_5555col_10919_24324
"Liberal Education Has Failed": Reading Like an Engineer in 1960s America
Technology and Culture
Wisnioski, Matthew H.
Virginia Tech
2014-02-18T16:35:11Z
2014-02-18T16:35:11Z
2009
2014-01-31
Article - Refereed
Wisnioski, M. H. (2009). "Liberal Education Has Failed": Reading Like an Engineer in 1960s America. Technology and Culture 50(4), 753-782. doi: 10.1353/tech.0.0346
1097-3729
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25479
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tech/summary/v050/50.4.wisnioski.html
https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.0.0346
en_US
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Johns Hopkins Univ Press
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/254972020-10-09T13:12:25Zcom_10919_24255com_10919_5555com_10919_24257col_10919_24322col_10919_24324
The Dilemma of Case Studies Resolved: The Virtues of Using Case Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science
Perspectives on Science
Burian, Richard M.
Virginia Tech
Philosophers of science turned to historical case studies in part in response to Thomas Kuhn's insistence that such studies can transform the philosophy of science. In this issue Joseph Pitt argues that the power of case studies to instruct us about scientific methodology and epistemology depends on prior philosophical commitments, without which case studies are not philosophically useful. Here I reply to Pitt, demonstrating that case studies, properly deployed, illustrate styles of scientific work and modes of argumentation that are not well handled by currently standard philosophical analyses. I illustrate these claims with exemplary findings from case studies dealing with exploratory experimentation and with interdisciplinary cooperation across sciences to yield multiple independent means of access to theoretical entities. The latter cases provide examples of ways that scientists support claims about theoretical entities that are not available in work performed within a single discipline. They also illustrate means of correcting systematic biases that stem from the commitments of each discipline taken separately. These findings illustrate the transformative power of case study methods, allow us to escape from the horns of Pitt's ?dilemma of case studies?, and vindicate some of the post-Kuhn uses to which case studies have been put.
2014-02-21T14:20:14Z
2014-02-21T14:20:14Z
2001-12
2014-02-05
Article
Burian, Richard M. "The Dilemma of Case Studies Resolved: The Virtues of Using Case Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science," Perspectives on Science, Winter 2001, Vol. 9, No. 4, Pages 383-404. doi:10.1162/106361401760375794
1063-6145
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25497
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/106361401760375794
https://doi.org/10.1162/106361401760375794
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MIT Press
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/1137292024-03-12T15:59:32Zcom_10919_5com_10919_25799com_10919_24257com_10919_5555col_10919_70873col_10919_24324
Pluralistic Collaboration in Science and Technology: Reviewing Knowledge Systems, Culture, Norms, and Work Styles
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Halfon, Saul E.
Sovacool, Benjamin
This paper challenges the language of “interdisciplinarity,” suggesting “pluralistic collaboration” as a better alternative. Interdisciplinarity, team science, and transdisciplinarity frame academic and problem-focused collaborations narrowly, overemphasizing epistemology, downplaying extra-disciplinary divides and nonacademic collaborators, and either ignoring or psychologizing individual-level phenomena. We first paint a picture of the tensions and divides that exist in pluralistic collaborations, in three dimensions—epistemic, cultural, and normative—using a series of literature reviews to simultaneously map and extend these dimensions. We then introduce and explore a fourth dimension—academic work styles. Individual level considerations of collaboration in the literature generally rely on psychological types. We explore what a more sociologically oriented approach to individual dynamics within collaborations would look like by identifying and exploring four general academic work styles: isolationist, imperialist, pragmatist, and pluralist. We conclude by emphasizing and reflecting on pluralistic collaboration. Pluralism exists along a range of dimensions, and pluralizing or homogenizing different dimensions (pluralizing pluralism) can produce diverse effects on the outcome of interdisciplinary collaboration. While we thus advocate for pluralism along a greater range of dimensions when addressing complex problems, we suggest that over-pluralization can be a problem.
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2023-02-08T16:55:57Z
2023-02-08T16:55:57Z
2022-10-10
2023-02-08T16:35:07Z
Article - Refereed
Article
Text
0162-2439
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/113729
https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221124663
Halfon, Saul [0000-0001-5630-3164]
1552-8251
en
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SAGE
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Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: A critical review
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water
Meehan, Katie
Jepson, Wendy
Harris, Leila M.
Wutich, Amber
Beresford, Melissa
Fencl, Amanda
London, Jonathan
Pierce, Gregory
Radonic, Lucero
Wells, Christian
Wilson, Nicole J.
Adams, Ellis Adjei
Arsenault, Rachel
Brewis, Alexandra
Harrington, Victoria
Lambrinidou, Yanna
McGregor, Deborah
Patrick, Robert
Pauli, Benjamin
Pearson, Amber L.
Shah, Sameer
Splichalova, Dacotah
Workman, Cassandra
Young, Sera
Science, Technology, and Society
colonialism
household water insecurity
race
social inequality
water infrastructure
Safe and secure water is a cornerstone of modern life in the global North. This article critically examines a set of prevalent myths about household water in high-income countries, with a focus on Canada and the United States. Taking a relational approach, we argue that household water insecurity is a product of institutionalized structures and power, manifests unevenly through space and time, and is reproduced in places we tend to assume are the most water-secure in the world. We first briefly introduce "modern water" and the modern infrastructural ideal, a highly influential set of ideas that have shaped household water provision and infrastructure development over the past two centuries. Against this backdrop, we consolidate evidence to disrupt a set of narratives about water in high-income countries: the notion that water access is universal, clean, affordable, trustworthy, and uniformly or equitably governed. We identify five thematic areas of future research to delineate an agenda for advancing scholarship and action-including challenges of legal and regulatory regimes, the housing-water nexus, water affordability, and water quality and contamination. Data gaps underpin the experiences of household water insecurity. Taken together, our review of water security for households in high-income countries provides a conceptual map to direct critical research in this area for the coming years. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Human Water
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study, University of British Columbia; PLUS Alliance; Texas AM University; U.S. National Science FoundationNational Science Foundation (NSF) [BCS-17759972]
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study, University of British Columbia; PLUS Alliance; Texas A&M University; U.S. National Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: BCS-17759972
2021-02-15T20:03:29Z
2021-02-15T20:03:29Z
2020-11
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2049-1948
e1486
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102376
https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1486
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A Transdisciplinary Approach to Address Climate Change Adaptation for Human Health and Well-Being in Africa
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Wright, Caradee Yael
Moore, Candice Eleanor
Chersich, Matthew
Hester, Rebecca
Nayna Schwerdtle, Patricia
Mbayo, Guy Kakumbi
Akong, Charles Ndika
Butler, Colin D.
Science, Technology, and Society
climate change policy
disaster risk
early warning systems
environmental health
health governance
healthcare
sustainable development
transnationality
The health sector response to dealing with the impacts of climate change on human health, whether mitigative or adaptive, is influenced by multiple factors and necessitates creative approaches drawing on resources across multiple sectors. This short communication presents the context in which adaptation to protect human health has been addressed to date and argues for a holistic, transdisciplinary, multisectoral and systems approach going forward. Such a novel health-climate approach requires broad thinking regarding geographies, ecologies and socio-economic policies, and demands that one prioritises services for vulnerable populations at higher risk. Actions to engage more sectors and systems in comprehensive health-climate governance are identified. Much like the World Health Organization’s ‘Health in All Policies’ approach, one should think health governance and climate change together in a transnational framework as a matter not only of health promotion and disease prevention, but of population security. In an African context, there is a need for continued cross-border efforts, through partnerships, blending climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, and long-term international financing, to contribute towards meeting sustainable development imperatives.
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2021-04-26T12:24:44Z
2021-04-26T12:24:44Z
2021-04-17
2021-04-23T13:35:59Z
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Wright, C.Y.; Moore, C.E.; Chersich, M.; Hester, R.; Nayna Schwerdtle, P.; Mbayo, G.K.; Akong, C.N.; Butler, C.D. A Transdisciplinary Approach to Address Climate Change Adaptation for Human Health and Well-Being in Africa. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 4258.
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103117
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084258
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Ideology and the Clamshell Identity - Organizational Dilemmas in the Antinuclear Power Movement
Social Problems
Downey, Gary L.
Virginia Tech
This ethnographic study examines the role of ideology in the development of organizational dilemmas in the Clamshell Alliance, an anti-nuclear protest group active in New England during the late 1970s. In 1977, the Alliance received national recognition for its use of consensus decision making and nonviolent civil disobedience during a highly publicized two-week incarceration following an attempted occupation of the Seabrook nuclear plant. But over the next few years, sharp internal disagreements developed over the use of these strategies, leading ultimately to a factional split. I extend theory from symbolic anthropology to integrate the analysis of ideology into the study of resource mobilization without sacrificing the latter's emphasis on rational calculation. My analysis shows that the Alliance's anti-nuclear ideology established an egalitarian identity for the group which structured both the initial selection of strategies and later efforts to modify them.
NSF BNS-7910334
Michigan Technological University
2014-03-05T13:38:17Z
2014-03-05T13:38:17Z
1986-06
2014-02-17
Article - Refereed
Text
Downey, G. L. (1986). Ideology and the clamshell identity - organizational dilemmas in the antinuclear power movement. Social Problems, 33(5), 357-373. doi: 10.2307/800656
0037-7791
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25820
http://www.jstor.org/stable/800656
https://doi.org/10.2307/800656
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University of California Press
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/1136572023-02-04T08:11:33Zcom_10919_5com_10919_25799com_10919_24257com_10919_5555col_10919_70873col_10919_24324
Disabled Dimensionalities: Normative expectations' impacts on disabled perceptions and spatialities
L'espace Politique
Blanchard, Enka
Shew, Ashley
As humans, we are expected to interact as fully functional 3D manipulators who can observe, handle,and act in three spatial dimensions. This is how users are considered in the design of many products and spaces. Ableism often gives people the perception that disabled people are inferior at manipulating, imagining, and navigating the world. We contest this perception using both our own experiences as disabled manipulators and narratives from other disabled people that speak to this presumption as limited imagination and consideration. In this theoretical contribution, we analyze the consequences of ableism in how spaces — digital, physical, imaginary in science fiction, present in practice and material configuration — operate in the way we think about the material and virtual world.
Published version
2023-02-03T18:05:08Z
2023-02-03T18:05:08Z
2022
2023-02-03T14:53:59Z
Article - Refereed
Article
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1958-5500
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/113657
https://doi.org/10.4000/espacepolitique.10518
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45
Heflin, Ashley [0000-0002-9812-0873]
1958-5500
en
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Rediscovering the King of Woodpeckers: Exploring the Implications
Avian Conservation and Ecology
Walters, J. R.
Crist, E. L.
Biological Sciences
Science, Technology, and Society
Virginia Tech
conservation paradigms
ivory-billed woodpecker
political backlash
population dynamics
ivory-billed woodpecker
philesturnus-carunculatus
management
populations
island
condor
biodiversity conservation
ecology
ornithology
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker has long held a special place in the psyche of North American conservation, eliciting unusually colorful prose, even from scientists, as an icon of the wild. The reverence in which it was held did little to slow the habitat loss that led to its apparent extinction 60 years ago. A consequence of the emotion and attention associated with the amazing rediscovery of this species is that conservation biologists will be under considerable pressure to make good on this "second chance." This poses a challenge to conservation paradigms that has important political consequences. First, the decline of the species is due to habitat loss, recovery from which has been much more seldom achieved than recovery from declines due to impacts on vital rates. This challenge is exacerbated by the enormous area requirements of the species. Second, the species at best exists as a critically small population. It will be difficult to make the case that a viable population can be established without undermining the small population paradigm that underlies conservation strategies for many other species. This has already resulted in some political backlash. Conservation of this species is best based on the one point of clear scientific consensus, that habitat is limiting, but this may result in additional political backlash because of conflicts with other land uses.
2014-05-14T14:17:18Z
2014-05-14T14:17:18Z
2005-12
2014-05-12
Article - Refereed
Walters, J. R., and E. L. Crist. 2005. Rediscovering the king of woodpeckers: exploring the implications. Avian Conservation and Ecology - Écologie et conservation des oiseaux 1(1): 6. [online] URL: http://www.ace-eco.org/vol1/iss1/art6/
1712-6568
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/47994
http://www.ace-eco.org/vol1/iss1/art6/
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Resilience Alliance
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Custody of the corpse: controlling alkaline hydrolysis in US death care markets
Olson, P. R.
Business & Economics
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Death in a Consumer Culture
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Internet interconnection infrastructure: lessons from the global South
Internet Policy Review
Rosa, Fernanda R.
This article examines the formation of the first internet exchange point (IXP) in Mexico amid the implementation of telecommunication reforms and asymmetric regulations in a market with low level of competition. An IXP is defined as a shared interconnection facility and a key internet governance arena where players with myriad goals and functions mesh in interlaced technical and political dynamics. The study shows how data centres, passive infrastructure and autonomous system numbers play a critical role that stand out in the context of lack of infrastructure in Mexico. The paper argues that the challenges for an IXP to become stable in such a context in the global South is a result of IXP imagined affordances and the way that infrastructure, the telecommunications incumbent, its competitors, the state regulator, and the IXP operator interact, keeping the initiative in a fragile equilibrium.
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Remaking the Innovator Imperative
Wisnioski, Matthew H.
Hintz, Eric S.
Kleine, Marie Stettler
“Remaking the Innovator Imperative” is Chapter 19 of the edited volume Does America Need More Innovators? (The MIT Press, 2019).
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Up-Standing Norms, Technology, and Disability
Heflin, Ashley Shew
Presentation as part of a panel on Discrimination and Technology at IEEE Ethics 2016
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How To Get A Story Wrong: Technoableism, Simulation, and Cyborg Resistance
Including Disability
Shew, Ashley
For this paper, I will first share with you what we take to be the wrong stories out there about disability - narrative arcs we’ve inherited from tropes through various media as well as highlight the dangers of disability simulation to address these. Next, I’ll talk about better stories, more authentic narratives we might give about technology and about disability. Third, I’ll talk about social responsibility in the context of disability narrative, before ending by talking about cyborg-cripborg-disability expertise and knowledge with a reflection on cyborg expertise during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Tropes about disability, stereotyped views and biased visions of what disabled life is, often occupy - haunt, maybe - the ways in which technologies related to disability are designed, marketed, and shared. Technology is then taken as a redemptive power for that which demanded an answer or solution or some means of address. There are two errors in our traditional narratives -- (1) we get stories about technology wrong, and (2) we get stories about disability wrong, both of these because of how we talk about disability technology. I’m interested in telling better stories about technology and disability, some of these in the service of better technology, better design -- but really in service of disability community and disabled flourishing.
Many of us end up, as disabled people, participating (often without our consent) in stories, in collective imaginings, that do a disservice to our communities, and our agency in creation/design, our desires both in community and in desired technologies, and our participation both within design spaces and in the larger world. We too often become fodder in someone’s do-gooder folder and serve narratives that elevate nondisabled designers as experts and heroes for taking on the challenge we disabled people present.
Part of the problem in how we talk about disability is always sending it back to the individual -- this has been instantiated in law and process, people talking of “individuals with disabilities” or worse “persons” (which harkens to missing persons or reports of crime, and continues to emphasize our separateness from each other, we are not even people in this term). It lets people think we are not a collective of any sort, lets them think we don’t have culture or community or relationship with each other because of disability. Individualization de-politicizes disability by keeping us separated.
For this paper, I will first share with you what we take to be the wrong stories out there about disability - narrative arcs we’ve inherited from tropes through various media as well as highlight the dangers of disability simulation to address these. Next, I’ll talk about better stories, more authentic narratives we might give about technology and about disability. Third, I’ll talk about social responsibility in the context of disability narrative, before ending by talking about cyborg-cripborg-disability expertise and knowledge with a reflection on cyborg expertise during the covid-19 pandemic.
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Aesthetics of Otherness: Representation of #migrantcaravan and #caravanamigrante on Instagram
Social Media + Society
Rosa, Fernanda R.
Soto-Vasquez, Arthur D.
migrant caravan
caravana migrante
Instagram
Latinx representation
social movements
hashtag hijacking
aesthetics of otherness
This article examines the representation of the migrant caravan on Instagram showing how an aesthetics of otherness has prevailed in this representation. Aesthetics of otherness is the result of the interaction between platform users' selections and platform affordances that creates a gap between the marginalized other and the user. Based on a qualitative content analysis of posts with the hashtags #caravanamigrante and #migrantcaravan, this research reveals that the two hashtags form parallel, although not alike, communicative spaces where migrant caravan representation is mostly mediated by professionals and organizations interested in promoting their own work and not by the migrants themselves. Despite this trend, users posting with #caravanamigrante were less likely to hijack the intent of the public, more likely to reference reasons for migration, and overall less likely to employ the aesthetics of otherness, which point to the possibility of circumventing the role of the platform in shaping the representation of marginalized people and social justice movements.
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WE CAN REBUILD YOU: disabled bodies in technological imagination
Heflin, Ashley Shew
Invited Talk at Old Dominion University
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From community networks to shared networks: the paths of Latin-Centric Indigenous networks to a pluriversal internet
Information Communication & Society
Rosa, Fernanda R.
Digital inequalities
Community networks
Indigenous design
Internet interconnection infrastructure
Values in design
Internet governance
This article examines, with ethnographic lenses, the emergence of shared networks in the Tseltal and Zapoteco communities in Chiapas and Oaxaca (Mexico). 'Shared networks' are first-mile signal-sharing practices that articulate interconnection infrastructure and values of coexistence to, in the cases studied, extend the internet to areas where the services of existing larger internet service providers are unsatisfactory or unavailable. It argues that by infrastructuring their own local networks and interconnecting to the global internet, Tseltal and Zapoteco people are effectively internet codesigners, building Latin-Centric Indigenous networks and shaping internet governance from below. When comunalidad values, supported by unlicensed frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum, towers, radio antennas, houses' rooftops, routers, and cables, intersect with the values of the internet service providers and their policies, hybrids emerge. Shared networks are a result of what these hybrids enact and constrain, as well as evidence of the vivid struggles for a more inclusive and pluriversal internet.
Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales
Published version
This work was supported by Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and Carnegie Corporation of New York: [Grant Number Tech & Policy Fellowship]; Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales: [Grant Number Google Policy Fellowship].
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Shared Networks: The Paths of Latin-Centric Indigenous Networks to a Pluriversal Internet
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
Rosa, Fernanda R.
This research paper examines the emergence of shared networks in Tseltal and Zapoteco communities in Chiapas and Oaxaca (Mexico): internet first mile signal-sharing practices that articulate interconnection infrastructure and coexistence values to extend the internet to areas where the services of existing larger internet service providers are unsatisfactory or unavailable. In the case studies analyzed, indigenous people become internet codesigners by infrastructuring for their own local networks and interconnecting to the global internet. The paper argues that a hybrid materializes at the level of network interconnection when comunalidad, or the way of these communities, supported by unlicensed frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum, towers, radio antennas, houses rooftops, routers, and cables meet the values of the internet service providers and their policies. Shared networks are a result of what these arrangements both enact and constrain, and the evidence of vivid struggles of Latin-centric indigenous networks towards a pluriversal internet.
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Performing Radical Vulnerability to Teach STS in Singapore
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
Haines, Monamie
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Combating Racialized and Gendered Ignorance: Theorizing a Transactional Pedagogy of Friendship
Feminist Formations
Olson, Philip
Gillman, Laura J.
Virginia Tech
epistemologies of ignorance
feminist epistemology
friendship
interdisciplinary team-teaching
separatism|transactional pedagogy
The article explores the problem of epistemological ignorance. Drawing on the literature of feminist epistemology, in particular the epistemologies of ignorance, it theorizes white ignorance and male ignorance and how it is possible to gain consciousness about one's ignorance, as well as how to be responsible for what one does not know. The article explores ignorance as unconscious habits that inform our mental schemas, our social interactions, and our physicality. It identifies and analyzes these habits of ignorance, drawing on our experiences as team teachers (one a philosophy professor, and the other a professor of women's studies and literary studies) who co-taught an interdisciplinary doctoral seminar in feminist epistemology. It describes and illustrates the pedagogical and scholarly processes that led us to view epistemology as a practice of inquiry that combats ignorance by demanding an inclusive partnership across traditional and counterhegemonic approaches to knowledge. The article claims that a transactional pedagogy of friendship makes possible the disruption and rehabituation of epistemic habits of ignorance, moving inquirers in the direction of more inclusive, reliable, and responsible knowledge.
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Olson, P. & Gillman, L. (2013). Combating Racialized and Gendered Ignorance: Theorizing a Transactional Pedagogy of Friendship. Feminist Formations 25(1), 59-83. doi: 10.1353/ff.2013.0011
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GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South
Policy and Internet
Rosa, Fernanda R.
Hauge, Janice A.
Social Sciences
Communication
Political Science
Government & Law
content delivery networks
competition policy
GAFA
global South
internet exchange points
INTERNET
CHALLENGES
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We analyze public points of interconnection of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) in the global North versus the global South to determine the degree to which their location preferences differ, if at all. We find that there is a statistically significant difference in GAFA locating in the global North versus the global South—a difference based on a country's wealth, specifically as given by per capita GNI. Approximately 38% of countries classified as global North have a GAFA public point of interconnection, while 16% of those classified as global South do. Apple has approximately 92% of its presence in the global North, followed by Amazon (82.5%), Facebook (73%), and Google (72%). Our findings suggest that competition and antitrust policy discussions of digital platforms should include information on the dynamics of interconnection infrastructure distribution, and for that, such information must be available. We also assert that a global consideration of the digital platforms market is necessary.
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Using Timeline Methodology to Visualize Treatment Trajectories of Youth and Young Adults Following Inpatient Opioid Treatment
International Journal of Qualitative Methods
Monico, Laura B.
Ludwig, Ariel
Lertch, Elizabeth
Mitchell, Shannon Gwin
Science, Technology, and Society
qualitative methods
timeline
graphics
longitudinal
adolescents
young adults
interviews
narrative
While the use of visual methods in qualitative research is gaining recognition, there has been less attention to timelines. This paper addresses this gap and contributes to the overall literature on qualitative research design and analysis. In a randomized trial of extended release naltrexone for youth with opioid use disorder timelines were used as a part of the semi-structured interview process. Timelines were constructed in a participatory manner in which both youth and their caregivers were separately asked to recount significant events related to substance use, treatment, and criminal justice involvement that took place between interview time points. This paper suggests that using timelines in qualitative, substance use research offers two main advantages: 1) improving the data collection process, and 2) advancing understandings of temporally contextualized narratives through a visual format. Here, timelines were an integral tool for summarizing and illustrating the complexity of youths' experiences following residential drug treatment.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)United States Department of Health & Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) - USANIH National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) [R01DA033391]
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) provided support for this manuscript and analysis through grant #R01DA033391.
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The MOPR Saga and the Politics of Manipulation in U.S. Electricity Markets
Socio-Economic Review
Breslau, Daniel
Energy markets
Regulation
United States
Recent sociological literature treats market manipulation as a product of the interaction of innovative trading practices with activities of market policing. Its definition is not independent of the construction of devices to detect it, and regulatory means for sanctioning and correcting it. This paper builds on that work by analyzing the political process through which those devices, and market manipulation itself, are defined. It examines a protracted struggle to define a particular form of manipulation in wholesale electricity markets in the U.S. From 2006 to 2021, the definition of “buyer-side market power” and the preferred mechanism for detecting and mitigating this particular form of market manipulation, the Minimum Offer Pricing Rule (MOPR). Analyzing filings and orders in regulatory proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, internal documents tracing deliberations within PJM, the largest wholesale electricity market in the U.S., supplemented by interviews with regulators, stakeholders, and economic experts. This contention takes the form of a “valorization struggle,” in which actors with different relative endowments of the many types of properties wield what influence they have to shape the market rules in a way that will convert those holdings into sources of revenues and competitive advantages relative to other market participants. The successive redefinitions of this type of market manipulation, as coded in the instruments used to detect and mitigate it, track the evolving power relations within the field. The paper considers the ways that, in this case, the politics of market manipulation mediate the politics of climate.
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Does America Need More Innovators?
Wisnioski, Matthew
Hintz, Eric S.
Kleine, Marie Stettler
T21 .D637 2019
Engineering and state - United States
Technological innovations - United States
Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring innovators in best practices, personal habits, and workplace cultures for fostering innovation. But critics have begun to question the unceasing promotion of innovation, pointing out its gadget-centric shallowness, the lack of diversity among innovators, and the unequal distribution of innovation's burdens and rewards. Meanwhile, reformers work to make the training of innovators more inclusive and the outcomes of innovation more responsible. This book offers an overdue critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate by bringing together innovation's champions, critics, and reformers in conversation.
The book presents an overview of innovator training, exploring the history, motivations, and philosophies of programs in private industry, universities, and government; offers a primer on critical innovation studies, with essays that historicize, contextualize, and problematize the drive to create innovators; and considers initiatives that seek to reform and reshape what it means to be an innovator.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Making effective participatory environmental health science through collaborative data analysis
Allen, Barbara L.
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Toxic truths: Environmental justice and citizen science in a post-truth age, Thom Davies and Alice Mah, eds. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2020.
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Mobile Learning in Brazil: Management and Implementation of Current Policies and Future Perspectives
Rosa, Fernanda R.
Azenha, Gustavo S.
Mobile learning
Education
ICT
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Why MIT Institutionalized the Avant-Garde: Negotiating Aesthetic Virtue in the Postwar Defense Institute
Configurations
Wisnioski, Matthew H.
art
Technology
science
Collaboration
war
This essay explores MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies to address two major absences in understandings of art/science/technology collaboration: 1) what drew scientists and engineers-not just elite policymakers and polymaths, but thousands in the rank and file-to the arts in the first place; and (2) what compelled the institutions of postwar technoscience to provide financial and material support for such endeavors? The essay employs the notion of "aesthetic virtue" to explain the linkage of the contradictory ideals of creativity and to demonstrate the vital role of institutionalization in an increasingly professionalized and academic domain of contemporary art.
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2014-01-30T15:14:10Z
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2014-01-31
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Matthew Wisnioski. "Why MIT Institutionalized the Avant-Garde: Negotiating Aesthetic Virtue in the Postwar Defense Institute." Configurations 21.1 (2013): 85-116. Project MUSE. Web. 30 Jan. 2014, 10.1353/con.2013.0006.
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The Innovator Imperative
Wisnioski, Matthew H.
“The Innovator Imperative” is Chapter 1 of the edited volume Does America Need More Innovators? (The MIT Press, 2019).
2019-05-14T18:10:09Z
2019-05-14T18:10:09Z
2019
Book chapter
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Does America Need More Innovators?
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14 pages
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The MIT Press
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New Technology for a New Nation: Building an Internet Culture in Estonia
Abbate, Janet E.
Internet
Estonia
Eastern Europe
history of technology
As in many areas of the history of technology, studies of the Internet are still largely limited to the United States and other established capitalist democracies. More research is needed on how such technologies are created, disseminated, and used in the very different context of emerging nations undergoing rapid political, economic, and cultural change. In this paper I explore the development of the Internet in Estonia since its introduction in June 1992, less than a year after the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union. Estonia’s speed in establishing an Internet infrastructure has been remarkable: in the first six years it connected over 20,000 computers, making Estonia the 15th highest European country in network connections per capita. As these figures suggest, Estonians have not been mere passive recipients of foreign technology; rather, various groups in Estonia have actively embraced the Internet for a wide range of economic and social ends.
Despite the country’s commitment to free-market economics, commercial enterprises did not take the lead in providing network services. Rather, the government promoted Internet growth through its education and economic policies. A national educational network, EENet, was established in 1993, and in 1997 the Ministry of Education launched a program called Tiger Leap to upgrade the nation’s school system and connect every school to the Internet. The government also created the EEBone network to interconnect the nation’s fifteen county capitals, support regional development, and—looking toward increased economic integration with Europe—help Estonia participate in the European Union’s plans for a “Global Information Society.” In addition, non-governmental organizations such as the Open Estonia Foundation have provided funds to create Estonian-oriented Web content and to train the public in the use of the Internet, and a United Nations report on human development in Estonia has recommended increased public access to information technology. Another important factor in encouraging Internet growth has been Estonia’s historically close ties with Finland, which leads Europe in Internet connectivity and provides Estonia’s link to the rest of the Internet.
After assessing the relative importance of economic, political, geographic, and cultural factors in accelerating Internet participation in Estonia, I ask how expansion of Internet access has affected Estonian society. One already visible symptom is a generation gap: surveys show that while 3/4 of Estonian teenagers have used computers, only 1/5 of their parents have done so. Other data suggest that Estonians have adopted a cooperative approach to using what is still a scarce and expensive technology, often going to friends’ and neighbors’ homes to use computers. Drawing on field research, I will attempt to uncover ordinary Estonians’ attitudes toward and motivations for Internet use; the ways in which different social groups have appropriated this technology for their own aims; and how the Internet has fit into—or disrupted—established cultural practices.
2019-08-29T14:22:24Z
2019-08-29T14:22:24Z
1999
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Code Ethnography and the Materiality of Power in Internet Governance
Qualitative Sociology
Rosa, Fernanda R.
Code Ethnography
Digital Ethnography
Digital Inequalities
Internet Interconnection Infrastructure
Internet Exchange Points (IXP)
Internet Governance
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
The purpose of this article is to discuss an ethnography of code, specifically code ethnography, a method for examining code as a socio-technical actor, considering its social, political, and economic dynamics in the context of digital infrastructures. While it can be applied to any code, the article presents the results of code ethnography application in the study of internet interconnection dynamics, having the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) as code and two of the largest internet exchange points (IXPs) in the world as points of data collection, DE-CIX Frankfurt, and IX.br Sao Paulo. The results show inequalities in the flows of information between the global North and the global South and concentration of power at the level of interconnection infrastructure hitherto unknown in the context of the political economy of the internet. Code ethnography is explained in terms of code assemblage, code literacy, and code materiality. It demonstrates the grammar of BGP in context, making its logical and physical dimensions visible in the analysis of the formation of giant internet nodes and infrastructural interdependencies in the circulation information infrastructure of the internet.
Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs; Carnegie Corporation of New York Next Generation Cyber Fellowship (2016-2017)
Published version
This research was possible thanks to Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and Carnegie Corporation of New York Next Generation Cyber Fellowship (2016-2017).
2022-10-11T13:26:06Z
2022-10-11T13:26:06Z
2022-09
Article - Refereed
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http://hdl.handle.net/10919/112133
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-022-09517-3
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Springer
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Review essay: Killer Apps and Technomyths
Abbate, Janet E.
Published version
Published as “Killer Apps and Technomyths” by Janet Abbate. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Vol. 43, Number 1, pps. 105–112. ISSN 1939-1811, electronic ISSN 1939-182X. © 2012 by the Regents of the University of California.
2016-10-25T18:10:25Z
2016-10-25T18:10:25Z
2013-02-01
Book review
1939-1811
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73326
43
1
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Qualitative exploration of the medical learner's journey into correctional health care at an academic medical center and its implications for medical education
Advances in Health Sciences Education
Hashmi, Ahmar H.
Bennett, Alina M.
Tajuddin, Nadeem N.
Hester, Rebecca
Glenn, Jason E.
Science, Technology, and Society
Academic medical centers
Attitude
Curriculum
Graduate medical education
Prisoners
Standard of care
Undergraduate medical education
Correctional systems in several U.S. states have entered into partnerships with academic medical centers (AMCs) to provide healthcare for persons who are incarcerated. One AMC specializing in the care of incarcerated patients is the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB), which hosts the only dedicated prison hospital in the U.S. and supplies 80% of the medical care for the entire Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). Nearly all medical students and residents at UTMB take part in the care of the incarcerated. This research, through qualitative exploration using focus group discussions, sets out to characterize the correctional care learning environment medical trainees enter. Participants outlined an institutional culture of low prioritization and neglect that dominated the learning environment in the prison hospital, resulting in treatment of the incarcerated as second-class patients. Medical learners pointed to delays in care, both within the prison hospital and within the TDCJ system, where diagnostic, laboratory, and medical procedures were delivered to incarcerated patients at a lower priority compared to free-world patients. Medical learners elaborated further on ethical issues that included the moral judgment of those who are incarcerated, bias in clinical decision making, and concerns for patient autonomy. Medical learners were left to grapple with complex challenges like the problem of dual loyalties without opportunities to critically reflect upon what they experienced. This study finds that, without specific vulnerable populations training for both trainees and correctional care faculty to address these institutional dynamics, AMCs risk replicating a system of exploitation and neglect of incarcerated patients and thereby exacerbating health inequities.
2020-12-07T14:12:49Z
2020-12-07T14:12:49Z
2020-10-19
Article - Refereed
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1382-4996
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101025
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-020-09997-4
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1573-1677
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Made in Brazil: Conspiracy Theory and the Flow of Information in One-to-One Whatsapp Conversations
Revista Prelúdios
Rosa, Fernanda R.
This essay aims to shed light on the multiple and complex ways that information flows among individuals in times of intense use of digital platforms. Based on actor-network theory, it unveils largely unknown communication processes about the controversial death of the Brazilian Supreme Court Justice, Teori Zavascki in 2017 that occurred in closed conversations in which the author was part. Analyzing primary data, the essay discusses the signs of authority that allow for non-verified or fiction pieces to circulate as if they were news pieces, enabling conspiracy theories to take form. The essay defends that mutual responsibility in building the narrative with peers within a likeminded groups, and “translation” processes in which sender and information merge their characteristics to create trust are important factors to understand this phenomenon. Furthermore, in discussing news as cultural artifacts, the essay also raises reflections of the limits of framing this phenomenon as fake news, which artificially oppose what is “real” and “fake” disregarding cultural dynamics at stake.
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2022-01-25T19:38:52Z
2022-01-25T19:38:52Z
2021-10-21
2022-01-25T19:38:50Z
Article - Refereed
Text
2318-7808
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/107915
https://doi.org/10.9771/revpre.v9i9.37184
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Ribeiro Rosa, Fernanda [0000-0001-6677-8403]
2318-7808
en
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Pages 225-240
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Universidade Federal da Bahia
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Strongly Participatory Science and Knowledge Justice in an Environmentally Contested Region
Science, Technology, & Human Values
Allen, Barbara L.
expertise
justice
inequality
protest
engagement
intervention
environmental justice
citizen science
This article draws insights from a case study examining unanswered health questions of residents in two polluted towns in an industrial region in southern France. A participatory health study, as conducted by the author, is presented as a way to address undone science by providing the residents with relevant data supporting their illness claims. Local residents were included in the health survey process, from the formulation of the questions to the final data analysis. Through this strongly participatory science (SPS) process, the townspeople offered many creative ideas in the final report for how the data could be used to assist in improving their health and environment and policy work is already in evidence, resulting from the study. Drawing from the literature on participatory science and expertise as well as from the initial outcomes of the local health study, I propose that SPS produces a form of knowledge justice. Understanding knowledge and its making as part of a social justice agenda aligns well with environmental justice frames. Through SPS, local residents have a hermeneutical resource to make sense of their embodied lives and augment their claims with strong data supporting actions for improving their health and environment.
National Science Foundation
NSF: 1148586
Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées (IMéRA)
Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (ANSES)
French agency for food, environment and occupational health & safety
PNREST Anses, Cancer ITMO AVIESAN, 2014/1/023
2018-07-24T17:01:37Z
2018-07-24T17:01:37Z
2018
Article - Refereed
Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/84308
https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243918758380
Allen, Barbara L. [0000-0001-8200-2066]
en
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Sage
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/254752020-11-09T17:25:41Zcom_10919_24257com_10919_5555col_10919_24324
Cradle of a revolution? The industrial transformation of Louisiana's lower Mississippi river
Technology and Culture
Allen, Barbara L.
This article provides an overview of the petrochemical industry's transformation of Louisiana's Lower Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans from the early 1900s to the present. First there is a broad discussion of why the industry choose this location for development. The focus is then on a historical understanding of how the conditions for the environmental justice movement came to exist. These include: patterns of early land ownership with both race and class implications; early, systematic denial of employment to African Americans, willful lack of industry oversight on the part of regulators; and tax and development schemes that depleted local community coffers and services.
2014-02-18T16:35:11Z
2014-02-18T16:35:11Z
2006-01
2014-01-31
Article - Refereed
Allen, B. L. (2006). Cradle of a revolution? The industrial transformation of Louisiana's lower Mississippi river. Technology and Culture 47(1), 112-119. doi: 10.1353/tech.2006.0051
0040-165X
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25475
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tech/summary/v047/47.1allen.html
https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2006.0051
Allen, Barbara L. [0000-0001-8200-2066]
en
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Johns Hopkins University Press
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/999622020-10-09T13:09:40Zcom_10919_24257com_10919_5555col_10919_24324
A Successful Experiment in Participatory Science for Promoting Change in a French Industrial Region
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
Allen, Barbara L.
participatory science
participatory epidemiology
environmental health controversies
knowledge justice
The author and her team worked with the residents in an industrial area in France to produce a participatory epidemiological study about their health. The final report, drafted with input from the citizens, attracted the national press and the interest of many other polluted communities. The survey is currently being used to promote environmental change by the residents, their elected officials, and local doctors. This reinforces the author’s claim that rigorously designed participatory science can further citizen environmental initiatives and provide them policyleverage.
2020-09-15T14:43:45Z
2020-09-15T14:43:45Z
2017
Article - Refereed
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99962
https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2017.180
3
en_US
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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Society for Social Studies of Science
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/851822020-10-09T13:11:07Zcom_10919_5com_10919_25799com_10919_24257com_10919_5555col_10919_70873col_10919_24324
Good to Think With: Educational Visions and the Materiality of Computing
Abbate, Janet E.
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Unpublished conference paper presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Albuquerque, NM.
2018-09-28T13:36:50Z
2018-09-28T13:36:50Z
2015-10-09
Conference proceeding
Paper
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/85182
Abbate, J [0000-0001-8230-6334]
Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Transmobility: Possibilities in Cyborg (Cripborg) Bodies
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
Nelson, Mallory Kay
Shew, Ashley
Stevens, Bethany
This creative, experimental contribution blends written words and sketches depicting our crip bodies engaging with various mobility technologies, including crutches, walkers, prosthetic limbs, and manual and power wheelchairs. By picturing and describing our crip bodies with varieties of technologies that we use, we use these pictures and corresponding narratives about disabled bodies in technology to tell a larger story about the constitution of disability with technologies, as well as the modes of mobility available to disabled bodies. Our visual and narrative elements serve to argue that disabled bodies have a wider array of mobilities and ways of being than are afforded to non-disabled bodies. We resist super-crippery and insist on cripborgery. Crip bodies are taken as sites of possibility, adaptation, and creative reflection.
Published version
2019-11-06T21:12:32Z
2019-11-06T21:12:32Z
2019
2019-11-06T21:12:29Z
Article
Text
StillImage
2380-3312
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/95314
https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v5i1.29617
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1
Heflin, Ashley [0000-0002-9812-0873]
2380-3312
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Pages 1-20
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University of Toronto Libraries
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/254842022-02-11T15:51:02Zcom_10919_5540com_10919_24257com_10919_5555com_10919_25882com_10919_25799col_10919_11351col_10919_24324col_10919_24817
Engineers of Change
Wisnioski, Matthew H.
Visible scholarship initiative
2014-02-18T18:48:12Z
2014-02-18T18:48:12Z
2014-02-18
Presentation
Video
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25484
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oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/1179992024-02-13T17:09:17Zcom_10919_5com_10919_25799com_10919_24257com_10919_5555col_10919_91909col_10919_24324
From citizen social science to citizen bureaucraft: an ecology of social justice activism in Singapore
Social Studies of Science
Haines, Monamie
This article theorizes citizen knowledge production from a non-Western, nonliberal locale by examining why social movement-oriented citizen science is not practiced in the soft authoritarian context of Singapore. While environmental injustice arguably does exist in the city-state, citizens and residents are nor responding by producing undone science. In fact, seldom does the environment, science, and technology figure as the object of activism, let alone social injustice claims. Drawing on interpretive documentary analysis of interviews, news reports and auto-ethnography, this article argues that science and technology are guarded by tacit “out-of-bound” markers—or OB markers that constitute the norms of acceptable criticism. These OB markers are socially maintained by, and coproduced alongside, the twinned practices of elitism and meritocracy in Singapore, where the academic elite constitute critical voices, and as such, must navigate their credibility and privilege with the state, thereby foreclosing more radical forms of activism. As a consequence, elite Singaporeans practice citizen social science in areas of the environment, race and migration. Further, I show their standards and practices of evidencing and scientific communication can be construed as ‘citizen bureaucraft,’ where they cite the state to hold a kintsugi mirror to injustices it perpetuates. This article describes an ecology of social justice activism centred on Singapore’s primarily Bangladeshi migrant construction workers during the pandemic to show how citizenship is coproduced with citizen knowledge production in more authoritarian contexts, and how the coercive state responds.
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2024-02-13T20:44:25Z
2024-02-13T20:44:25Z
2024
Article
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0306-3127
https://hdl.handle.net/10919/117999
Haines, Monamie [0000-0002-7724-4893]
en
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SAGE Publications
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The invention of the “underclass”: a study in the politics of knowledge [Book review]
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Breslau, Daniel
A book review of <i>The invention of the “underclass”: a study in the politics of knowledge</i>, by Loïc Wacquant (Polity, 2022).
Published version
2023-02-01T13:52:47Z
2023-02-01T13:52:47Z
2023-01-04
2023-02-01T00:46:38Z
Book review
Text
0141-9870
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/113610
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2151930
Breslau, Daniel [0000-0003-3658-1401]
1466-4356
en
In Copyright
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Pages 1-3
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Routledge
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/895182020-10-09T13:09:44Zcom_10919_24257com_10919_5555col_10919_24324
Make Maintainers: Engineering Education and an Ethics of Care
Russell, Andrew L.
Vinsel, Lee
“Make Maintainers: Engineering Education and an Ethics of Care” is Chapter 13 of the edited volume Does America Need More Innovators? (The MIT Press, 2019).
2019-05-14T18:10:09Z
2019-05-14T18:10:09Z
2019
Book chapter
Text
9780262536738
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89518
en
Does America Need More Innovators?
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
21 pages
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The MIT Press
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/852062020-10-15T20:39:30Zcom_10919_24257com_10919_5555com_10919_79468com_10919_78628col_10919_24324col_10919_79471
Code Switch: Rethinking Computer Expertise as Empowerment
Abbate, Janet E.
Coding
Programming
Race
Gender
Empowerment
Claims that technical mastery of computing and new media will provide a route to economic success for oppressed groups have become ubiquitous in American public discourse. From commercial enterprises like Codecademy, to grassroots nonprofits like Black Girls Code, to state mandates for computer science in public schools, learning to code has been positioned as a quick fix for structural disadvantage. But such claims fail to locate coding within larger discourses about race, gender, and capitalism that constrain its liberatory potential. This paper unpacks “code” as a keyword: a socially powerful term with multiple, contested, historically contingent uses. I will ask: How does the discourse around coding construct competence and authority—and does it tend to preserve or challenge technical expertise as a white male preserve? How is the current meaning of “code” derived in part from related keywords such as “STEM,” “diversity,” “innovation,” or “computational thinking”? What are the historical roots of the coding movement, and how do computer education projects of the 1960s reveal alternate possibilities for programming as an empowering practice? To what extent have women and minorities involved in coding efforts been able to define their own goals, priorities, and definitions of expertise and success?
Precirculated conference paper. Portions of this paper have been incorporated into the article "Code Switch: Alternative Visions of Computer Expertise as Empowerment from the 1960s to the 2010s," Technology & Culture, vol. 59, 2018.
2018-10-01T19:58:58Z
2018-10-01T19:58:58Z
2016-05-06
Presentation
Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/85206
en_US
SHIFT CTRL: New Perspectives on Computing and New Media, Stanford University, 6 May 2016
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Virginia Tech
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Emotions and Narrative Selves
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
Hardcastle, Valerie Gray
Virginia Tech
2014-02-18T16:35:10Z
2014-02-18T16:35:10Z
2003-12
2014-01-31
Article - Refereed
Hardcastle, Valerie Gray (2003). Emotions and Narrative Selves. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 10(4), 353-355. doi: 10.1353/ppp.2004.0019
1086-3303
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25467
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ppp/summary/v010/10.4hardcastle.html
https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2004.0019
en_US
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Johns Hopkins Univ Press