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What’s Political about Solar Electric Technology? The User’s Perspective

In this 2015 article, Chelsea Schelly contributes to the wider discussion within STS on the politics of technology by researching and analyzing perceptions on the politics of solar-energy technology held by those who use it.Read more

Data Availability Statement for "Spaceships and Poetry"

The materials provided as source data come from the activities of the ETHOS Lab at the IT University of Copenhagen, in the period 2017-2018. They constitute chapbook publications, posters, and a video documenting an installation in the university. We consider them valuable for STS because they...Read more

STS @ ITU (2000-2006): Topics

The topic of the Second Semester Specialisation Program was “Building and Maintaining Life in Development Process” and the program offered the following courses in modules:

1. Module: Non -Western Modernities

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EU/ WHO Mission to Review the Exit Screening Measures at International Airports in Conakry, Freetown and Monrovia 2014

This is a summary technical report produced by The European Commission and World Health Organization. The report is used as primary material for the article "Inequality in the Governance of Pandemic Threat," by Jose Cañada and Satu...Read more

Latin American STS Agendas: Main Bibliographic References

South–North migrations (and the so-called “brain drain”)

Babalchevski, Elizabeth, and Marques, Fabricio. 2009., “Fuga de cerebros en Brasil: los costos públicos del errado entendimiento de una realidad académica...Read more

STS @ ITU (2000-2006): Beginnings

The first Master’s Degree program in “Science, Technology, and Society” was launched in 2000 under the Institute of Social Sciences at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in Turkey. The program was jointly administered with the European Inter-University...Read more

2020 Sep 22. Transcript of Audio Clip on Shifting Tech Optimism in Silicon Savannah.

Transcript of Audio Clip Recorded September 22, 2020

Angela Okune 17:17

I think a lot of the optimism was also this sense that like, we can solve so many of these problems with tech, with just the right tech. And then I think we realized,...Read more

2020 Oct 1. Transcript of Audio Clip on DISAPPOINTING OUTCOMES OF OPEN DATA IN KENYA

Transcript of Audio Clip Recorded October 1, 2020

Angela Okune:

…In 10 years from now–that's 2030–what would you say would be a disappointing outcome of open data in Kenya?

Leonida Mutuku:

That...Read more

Attunements to Fog

By characterizing capture as entailing both by relations of connection and relations of disconnection, Whitehead avoids the pitfall of understanding “the act of capture as a relation between two individuals already constituted before the capture itself,” where one party would become...Read more

Transnational STS in Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) Journal

Aalok Khandekar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

Strengthening “Transnational STS” is a primary goal of the incoming editorial collective of 4S’s Open Access journal, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS...Read more

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