Production of Limited Commensurability in Crises: Expert Knowledge on Nuclear Accidents After Fukushima [0.03%]
福岛核事故后专家知识的有限通约性生产研究
Valerie Arnhold
Valerie Arnhold
How does knowledge production during crises challenge or maintain contemporary institutions? This article investigates expert knowledge on nuclear accidents in France in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi accident in March 2011. It exam...
The Cruel Optimism of Plastics: Promissory Technologies and the Temporalities of Inaction [0.03%]
残酷的乐观主义:塑料、许诺的技术及不作为的时间性
Gauri Pathak,Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko,Mark Nichter
Gauri Pathak
The plastic problem is a complex, multi-faceted issue that requires coordinated global action and systemic change to address. In this article, we investigate how what we call 'promissory technologies' affect people's capacities to understan...
Satellite Internet and the Disruption of Telecommunications Infrastructures in Cameroon [0.03%]
卫星互联网与喀麦隆电信基础设施的破坏
Georges Macaire Eyenga
Georges Macaire Eyenga
This article examines how Starlink, developed by SpaceX, constitutes a disruptive innovation in the telecommunications sector in Cameroon, where it offers connectivity in areas poorly served by traditional networks. However, there is a tens...
Techno-Fixes: On the Non-Disruptive Disruptions of Cultured Meat, Social Freezing and AI Assistants [0.03%]
技术补丁:论培养肉、冻卵及人工智能助手的非颠覆性破坏效应
Henning Laux,Sandra Matthäus,Clara Wieghorst et al.
Henning Laux et al.
There is an ongoing debate about the capacity of technologies to solve social problems. In this article, we analyze the sociomaterial scripts of three techno-fixes: cultured meat, social egg freezing, and AI assistants. Using a mix of ethno...
Troubling the canon: Language, geography, and the politics of STS publishing in five decades of journal publications [0.03%]
扰动经典:语言、地理与STS出版的五十年政治变迁
Maurizio Meloni,Ayuba Issaka,Sam Cadman et al.
Maurizio Meloni et al.
STS is now a global endeavour, with journals, scholars, and associations in a wide range of regions, languages, and transnational networks of knowledge. Building on recent debates about decolonizing research, we contribute to debates about ...
Lacunalogy [0.03%]
lacunalogy
Sergio Sismondo,Khadija Coxon
Sergio Sismondo
The Shifting 'Self' of Science's Self-Governing Capacity: Four Decades of Research Integrity Discussions in Science and Nature [0.03%]
《科技自主调控能力中的“自我”变迁——Science与Nature关于科研诚信的四十年对话》
Ulrike Felt,Florentine Frantz
Ulrike Felt
The belief in science's inherent self-corrective nature has been challenged by growing concerns over research integrity violations, leading to heightened scrutiny of scientific processes. Examining 40 years of discussions in Science and Nat...
Historicizing problematization: The coexistence of agrifood solutions to malnutrition in the Philippines [0.03%]
问题化的历史化:菲律宾农业食品解决营养不良方案的共存
Shun-Nan Chiang
Shun-Nan Chiang
This study draws on Foucault's discussion on problematization and the perspective of multiplicity to examine five distinct agrifood solutions to malnutrition in the Philippines: rice biofortification, rice fortification, school gardening, b...
The Open Pharma Movement: Social Action to 'Open' Drug Research and Its Implications for Health [0.03%]
开放药学运动:“开放”药物研究的社会行动及其对健康的含义
Nicole Foti
Nicole Foti
Concerns over the complexity and costs of drug development have led some to consider whether practices of open science should be extended to pharmaceuticals, a space known for entrenched intellectual property regimes. In this article, I tra...
Replication after Collins: An ethnography of current replication studies in psychology [0.03%]
科利尔之后的重复试验:当前心理学复制研究的人类学分析
Jonna Brenninkmeijer,Maarten Derksen,Stephanie Meirmans et al.
Jonna Brenninkmeijer et al.
Ethnography and other empirical studies of replication played a significant role in the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) during the 1970s and 1980s. Collins and other proponents of SSK highlighted that exact replication was impossibl...