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2 postdoctoral positions on public participation and informality (in health and medicine), School CA
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Postdoc researchers will work in a team with two PhD candidates and the project PI, Dr Olga Zvonareva. The work is largely collective. It entails сlose collaboration with the rest of the team and exchange of insights from the individual subprojects to reach the overall goal of theorizing informal practices as forms of public participation. […] The post 2 postdoctoral positions on public participation and informality (in health and medicine), School CAPHRI/Department of Health, Ethics and Society–Maastricht University appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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Research During Covid: Taking Care of Each Other
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(2021-2-1 18:00)
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This week we are reblogging a two-part essay by Laura Mauldin. The essay originally appeared on scatterplot, a public sociology group blog. The post Research During Covid: Taking Care of Each Other appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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WTMC PhD Workshop (online) ‘Datafying non-humans’
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(2021-1-29 23:38)
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21 23 April 2021 Over the last forty years, scientific endeavours and related policy initiatives have been strongly shaped by datafication. Many of these current endeavours, whether space exploration, genomics or addressing climate change rely on complex digital objects, formed by global networks of data flow. For example, the scientific study of the world’s […] The post WTMC PhD Workshop (online) ‘Datafying non-humans’ appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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Call for abstracts: “Digitizing Peoples in Uncertain Times” seminar
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(2021-1-28 2:29)
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On May 13thand 14th 2021,the Processing CitizenshipERC project organizes the seminar “Digitizingpeoples in uncertain times: Interface methods for interventions on populations”. The seminar aims toaddress the emergent methods used to create data about populations, as well as the interventions weas social researchers can develop to create alternative epistemic forms about vulnerable, dispersed,invisible or just emergent […] The post Call for abstracts: “Digitizing Peoples in Uncertain Times” seminar appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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Call for book chapter: Opportunities and Challenges for Computational Social Science Method
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Publisher:IGI Global We are living in a digital era where most of our daily activities take place both through applications and computers. This causes the big data phenomenon which is an important subject for scientific research with increasing of available tools and processing power. As a natural outcome of this trend, a growing number of […] The post Call for book chapter: Opportunities and Challenges for Computational Social Science Method appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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208. Ways of Healing: Exploring non-Biomedical Cures as Emancipatory and Biopolitical Knowledge-Prac
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Local health traditions have largely been devalued in the biomedical understanding of health and disease. This approach fails to recognise that a population can be ‘self-reliant’ in its health care practices, a philosophy, and perspective that is held within non-Western health cultures such as the ancient tradition of Ayurveda (Mathpati et al., 2020). Among the […] The post 208. Ways of Healing: Exploring non-Biomedical Cures as Emancipatory and Biopolitical Knowledge-Practices appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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208. Ways of Healing: Exploring non-Biomedical Cures as Emancipatory and Biopolitical Knowledge-Prac
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Local health traditions have largely been devalued in the biomedical understanding of health and disease. This approach fails to recognise that a population can be ‘self-reliant’ in its health care practices, a philosophy, and perspective that is held within non-Western health cultures such as the ancient tradition of Ayurveda (Mathpati et al., 2020). Among the […] The post 208. Ways of Healing: Exploring non-Biomedical Cures as Emancipatory and Biopolitical Knowledge-Practices appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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208. Ways of Healing: Exploring non-Biomedical Cures as Emancipatory and Biopolitical Knowledge-Prac
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Local health traditions have largely been devalued in the biomedical understanding of health and disease. This approach fails to recognise that a population can be ‘self-reliant’ in its health care practices, a philosophy, and perspective that is held within non-Western health cultures such as the ancient tradition of Ayurveda (Mathpati et al., 2020). Among the […] The post 208. Ways of Healing: Exploring non-Biomedical Cures as Emancipatory and Biopolitical Knowledge-Practices appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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204. Valuing and Governing: The Relations and Troubles of Tools of Valuation
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Most contemporary policy fields are deeply intertwined with tools of ordering that also act as tools of valuation. Such procedures often involve the translation of qualities into quantities, concomitantly with the ascription of economic value. Think only of the quantification of polluting emissions and their pricing on carbon markets, the infection numbers that detect the […] The post 204. Valuing and Governing: The Relations and Troubles of Tools of Valuation appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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203. Utilizing STS Pedagogies in Design Education
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On June 9th, 2019, so-called “design ethicist” and former Google employee Tristan Harris, tweeted: “We need a new field of ‘Society & Technology Interaction’ (or STX).” The tweet caused a maelstrom of reactions from STS scholars and others, who used it as a classic example of the willful ignorance of industrial actors towards decades-old scholarship […] The post 203. Utilizing STS Pedagogies in Design Education appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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