Faculty Works, Department of Science, Technology, and Society
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New Technology for a New Nation: Building an Internet Culture in Estonia
(1999)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 ... -
The Innovator Imperative
(The MIT Press, 2019)“The Innovator Imperative” is Chapter 1 of the edited volume Does America Need More Innovators? (The MIT Press, 2019). -
Remaking the Innovator Imperative
(The MIT Press, 2019)“Remaking the Innovator Imperative” is Chapter 19 of the edited volume Does America Need More Innovators? (The MIT Press, 2019). -
Make Maintainers: Engineering Education and an Ethics of Care
(The MIT Press, 2019)“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). -
Code Switch: Rethinking Computer Expertise as Empowerment
(Virginia Tech, 2016-05-06)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 ... -
Strongly Participatory Science and Knowledge Justice in an Environmentally Contested Region
(Sage, 2018)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, ... -
Up-Standing Norms, Technology, and Disability
(2016-05-13)Presentation as part of a panel on Discrimination and Technology at IEEE Ethics 2016 -
WE CAN REBUILD YOU: disabled bodies in technological imagination
(2016-02-04)Invited Talk at Old Dominion University -
Epistemic Burdens and the Value of Ignorance
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Custody of the corpse: controlling alkaline hydrolysis in US death care markets
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Review essay: Killer Apps and Technomyths
(Historical Studies In The Natural Sciences, 2013-02-01) -
Rediscovering the King of Woodpeckers: Exploring the Implications
(Resilience Alliance, 2005-12)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 ... -
Ideology and the Clamshell Identity - Organizational Dilemmas in the Antinuclear Power Movement
(University of California Press, 1986-06)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 ... -
The Dilemma of Case Studies Resolved: The Virtues of Using Case Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science
(MIT Press, 2001-12)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 ... -
Cradle of a revolution? The industrial transformation of Louisiana's lower Mississippi river
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2006-01)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 ... -
"Liberal Education Has Failed": Reading Like an Engineer in 1960s America
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Emotions and Narrative Selves
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Combating Racialized and Gendered Ignorance: Theorizing a Transactional Pedagogy of Friendship
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2013)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 ... -
Why MIT Institutionalized the Avant-Garde: Negotiating Aesthetic Virtue in the Postwar Defense Institute
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2013)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 ...
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