Browsing Scholarly Works, Science, Technology, and Society by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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 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 ... -
Emotions and Narrative Selves
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The element of the table: Visual discourse and the preperiodic representation of chemical classification
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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 ... -
Cradle of a revolution? The industrial transformation of Louisiana's lower Mississippi river
(Johns Hopkins University 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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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 ... -
Review essay: Killer Apps and Technomyths
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Engineers of Change
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Mobile Learning in Brazil: Management and Implementation of Current Policies and Future Perspectives
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Epistemic Burdens and the Value of Ignorance
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WE CAN REBUILD YOU: disabled bodies in technological imagination
(2016-02-04)Invited Talk at Old Dominion University -
Custody of the corpse: controlling alkaline hydrolysis in US death care markets
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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 ... -
Up-Standing Norms, Technology, and Disability
(2016-05-13)Presentation as part of a panel on Discrimination and Technology at IEEE Ethics 2016 -
A Successful Experiment in Participatory Science for Promoting Change in a French Industrial Region
(Society for Social Studies of Science, 2017)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 ...
