Exploiting Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Policymaking. Hong Kong and Investment in the Pearl River Delta Region by Naubahar Sharif

“…Drawing on a case study on Hong Kong government policymaking, this paper identifies a potentially fruitful intersection between science and technology studies (STS) and policy studies whereby the latter would benefit from conceptual resources originating in STS. …”
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Data-driven visibility by Alexandra Jønsson, Loes Bogers

“…Maternity, Volume 1: London (2017) as a case study, they explore how artists working with ‘live’ computational culture might draw from critical theory, Science and Technology Studies as well as feminist strategies within arts-led enquiry. …”
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Co-laborations, Entrapments, Intraventions: Pedagogical Approaches to Technical Democracy in Architectural Design by Ignacio Farías, Tomás Sánchez Criado

“… A review of a series of pedagogical experiments in our work as science and technology studies (STS) scholars in a Department of Architecture is presented. …”
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Ethics by Other Means? Care Robot Trials as Ethics-in-Practice by Joni Jaakola

“…Furthermore, this article contributes to science and technology studies (STS) on older users by studying user figuration as a site of “ethics by other means”. …”
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Imaginaries of better administration: Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power by Terhi Esko, Riikka Koulu

“…By drawing on science and technology studies, public administration studies, and socio-legal studies we analyze law in the making and identify four imaginaries of public digital administration: understandable administration, self-monitoring administration, adaptive administration, and responsible administration. …”
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Co-laborations, Entrapments, Intraventions: Pedagogical Approaches to Technical Democracy in Architectural Design by Ignacio Farías, Tomás Sánchez Criado

“… A review of a series of pedagogical experiments in our work as science and technology studies (STS) scholars in a Department of Architecture is presented. …”
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Learning as a Matter of Concern. Reviewing Conventional, Sociocultural and Sociomaterial Perspectives by Michael Schlauch

“…But, due to its alternative stance on common onto-epistemological assumptions, it opens up new possibilities of collaboration between Science and Technology Studies and educational sciences where the agency of things and the mediation of knowledge emerge as matters of concern.…”
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Imagining the future of cell therapies: clinical trials, innovation and the intersection of clinical-academic and commercial visions by Ruchi Higham

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Re-learning Design: Pedagogical Experiments with STS in Design Studio Courses by Ignacio Farías, Tomás Sánchez Criado

“…On the one hand, contemporary strands of social and cultural theory – especially in the field of science and technology studies (STS), but also in anthropology – have made design much more than a mere research object. …”
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The new spirit of technoscience: recalibrating symmetrical STS critique by Tess Doezema, Nina Frahm

“…This shift has significant implications for the field of science and technology studies, and the modes of critique that STS scholars mobilize in understanding and intervening in the politics of sociotechnical change. …”
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Efforts against stem cell hype stuck in the logic of overpromising?: An essay on hype-conducive ways of doing ethics by Anja Pichl

“…Understanding hype-conducive ways of how ethicists engage with science and technology is of relevance not only for the broader ethical community but also for technology assessment and science and technology studies where an increasing interest in normative dimensions of their object of study has been observed. …”
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Re-learning Design: Pedagogical Experiments with STS in Design Studio Courses by Ignacio Farías, Tomás Sánchez Criado

“…On the one hand, contemporary strands of social and cultural theory – especially in the field of science and technology studies (STS), but also in anthropology – have made design much more than a mere research object. …”
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For a Speculative Aesthetics of Description: Interview with Alex Wilkie. Interviewers: I. Farías, & T. Sánchez Criado by Alex Wilkie, Ignacio Farías, Tomás Sánchez Criado

“…Wilkie has combined design and science and technology studies (STS) since the late ’90s, exploring inventive methods and research through design. …”
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Co-laborations, Entrapments, Intraventions: Pedagogical Approaches to Technical Democracy in Architectural Design by Ignacio Farías, Tomás Sánchez Criado

“… A review of a series of pedagogical experiments in our work as science and technology studies (STS) scholars in a Department of Architecture is presented. …”
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Technoscience in the Remaking of Human Bodies: Knowledge, Identities and Discourses by Simone Arnaldi, Stefano Crabu, Assunta Viteritti

“…It shows how science and technology studies scholars can explore the co-construction of the body as the result of the interaction between human and nonhuman agency, materiality, knowledge and institutions. …”
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Large network community detection by fast label propagation by Vincent A. Traag, Lovro Šubelj

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Gametes as embodied capital: perceptions on self-pricing reproductive biocommodities by Seiichi Villalona

“…This work contributes to social scientific explanations of biocommodification while providing new points of departure in reconceptualizing science and technology studies through the perspectives of potential actors in gamete exchange networks.…”
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HeLa. Reconstructing an Immortal Bio by Sara Casati, Stefano Crabu, Marialuisa Lavitrano, Mauro Turrini

“…The political, scientific, social and technological entanglement of Henrietta's account by Skloot is an original and vivid science narrative of clear relevance for Science and Technology Studies. Stemming from Henrietta's story and Skloot's book, Stefano Crabu, Mauro Turrini, Marialuisa Lavitrano and Sara Casati reflect and discuss on the relation between society and medical research, its ethical dilemmas, as well as on the way technoscientific processes can be accounted for.…”
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Moving Bodies: Creative Infrastructures of Identification by Sara Casartelli

“…The pursuit is informed by Science and Technology Studies (STS); the focus is on material practices aimed at the eventual identification of unknown bodies. …”
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Between hope, hype, and hell: Electric mobility and the interplay of fear and desire in sustainability transitions by Kester, J, Sovacool, BK, Noel, L, de Rubens, GZ

“…The Sociology of Expectations, part of the transitions and science and technology studies literature, specifically focusses on the performative role that desirable expectations play in the development and marketing of a technology. …”