Search Results for science and technology studies (STS)

...Brian Beaton; Amelia Acker; Lauren Di Monte; Shivrang Setlur; Tonia Sutherland; Sarah E. Tracy Students and scholars working at the intersections of history and science and technology studies (STS) have an unexpected opportunity when it comes to the growing profession of data science: the chance...

... in recent science and technology studies (STS). Placing labor history and STS in conversation (without presupposing clear or stable boundaries around either field of scholarship), the essay probes the meanings and limitations of the concept of “biological labor” from the vantage points of both fields...

... and technology studies (STS), claims about the close alliance of systems of knowledge production, technical control, and trans- national capital are mixed up with versions of an imminent future of decentered, networked, and distributed capacities and visionary possibilities across species and across...

..., and to gaps and dependencies, Breckenridge and Hecht suggest possible directions for contemporary and future African histories of technology. David Serlin is associate professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego. His books include Replaceable You...

... and improve contemporary studies of postcoloniality. Suman Seth is associate professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. He is author of Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890–1926 (2010); editor of a special issue...

... in ordinary language without condescension. In ac- complishing these tasks I have always found the historical case study in science and technology a useful, effective tool and, in this instance, sought to apply that tool to this exhibit. LETTERS I 165...

...Sigrid Schmalzer The author relates her experience teaching an undergraduate seminar on the 1970s–1980s movement Science for the People (SftP). She taught the seminar in conjunction with a three-day conference that brought together students, scholars in science and technology studies, and former...

... . “Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State (1977).” Journal of Historical Sociology 1 , no. 1 : 58 – 89 . Adas Michael . 1989 . Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance . Ithaca : Cornell University Press . Alexander Anna Rose...

...) and is coediting a collection of essays entitled Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century, forthcoming from the New Press. Kavita Philip is an assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. She works on such issues as race, science...

...) and is coediting a collection of essays entitled Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century, forthcoming from the New Press. Kavita Philip is an assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. She works on such issues as race, science...

... and politics were suffused, by and large, with the belief that American science and technology were infallible, benevolent, and politically and ethically neutral.16 If American engineers were doing it, this thinking went, then it must be beneficial and acceptable. For another thing, champions...

.... The military also sometimes started special groups to perform the tasks. Air Force General Hap Arnold, for example, recognized the contribution that operations research had made during the war and expected that science and technology would usher in a new age of warfare. Consequently, Arnold asked...

..., 1929–1981 (2000). An associate professor in Iowa State University’s history department, Bix specializes in history of technology, science, medicine, U.S. history, and women’s history. She is currently completing a book on the intellectual, social, and insti...

... Street and the Space of Audition,” Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies 11, no. 1 (2014): 34 – 41. 2. Jonathan Sterne, “Bourdieu, Technique, and Technology,” Cultural Studies 17, nos. 3 – 4 (2003): 384 – 85. 3. My periodization of the American Red Scares follows from Larry...

... is the science of capitalist reproduction. Between World War I and the present, biology has been transformed from a science centered on the organism, understood in functionalist terms, to a science studying automated technological devices, understood in terms of cybernetic systems. Organic...

... of documents we create. The readings will mix practice and theory. They will, I hope, raise a number of issues about the practice of oral history in particular and the inter- viewing sciences in general; perhaps more issues than can be adequately cov- ered in our class discussions...

... audiences with their spectacular performances of military conquest over the Plains Indians. Riding the wake of interest in expositions, the fairs in Buffalo, St. Louis, and other cities also exhibited slices of supposedly preindustrial life in America’s colonial acquisitions, to highlight the technological...

... a long, hard look at itself. Elitist and stuffy, science had let itself fester. The time had come to imagine a new way of doing science. Alice Bell is a London-based writer, researcher, and campaigner focusing on climate change, the politics of science, and public engagement with technology. She...

... it as a stalking-horse for everything he dislikes in contemporary science studies. Perutz does not provide a single convincing example to show that Geison does not understand Pasteur’s science. But if Perutz’s read- ing of Geison is less than careful, he does raise important problems in a stark manner...

... Dissertation Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota. His dissertation focuses on the production of graffiti-­murals and public space in Los Angeles. Jennifer Brier is associate professor of gender and women’s studies and history at the Uni- versity of Illinois at Chicago...