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Social studies of science

Sismondo S.
PMID: 28948869
Soc Stud Sci. 2016 Aug;46(4):583-585. doi: 10.1177/0306312716661429.

No abstract available.

Automating the Horae: Boundary-work in the age of computers.

Social studies of science

Reyes-Galindo L.
PMID: 28948871
Soc Stud Sci. 2016 Aug;46(4):586-606. doi: 10.1177/0306312716642317. Epub 2016 Jul 07.

This article describes the intense software filtering that has allowed the arXiv e-print repository to sort and process large numbers of submissions with minimal human intervention, making it one of the most important and influential cases of open access...

Discarded surrogates, modified traditions, welcome complements: The chequered careers of alternative technologies in Berlin's infrastructure systems.

Social studies of science

Moss T.
PMID: 28948872
Soc Stud Sci. 2016 Aug;46(4):559-582. doi: 10.1177/0306312716657205. Epub 2016 Jul 19.

This article takes an historical perspective on current attempts to 'open up' established, centralized systems of urban infrastructure to alternative technologies designed to minimize resource use and environmental pollution. The process of introducing alternative technologies into, or alongside, centralized...

The everyday lives of energy transitions: Contested sociotechnical imaginaries in the American West.

Social studies of science

Smith JM, Tidwell AS.
PMID: 28948886
Soc Stud Sci. 2016 Jun;46(3):327-350. doi: 10.1177/0306312716644534.

This article brings together two growing literatures - on sociotechnical imaginaries in science and technology studies and on resource materialities in anthropology - to explore how two energy-producing communities in the American West understand the moral salience of energy...

A deviation from standard design? Clinical trials, research ethics committees, and the regulatory co-construction of organizational deviance.

Social studies of science

Hedgecoe A.
PMID: 28078974
Soc Stud Sci. 2014 Feb;44(1):59-81. doi: 10.1177/0306312713506141.

Focusing on the high-profile drug disaster at London's Northwick Park Hospital in 2006, this article explores how such an event can be seen as an example of organizational deviance co-constructed between the company running the research and the research...

Formalization and separation: A systematic basis for interpreting approaches to summarizing science for climate policy.

Social studies of science

Sundqvist G, Bohlin I, Hermansen EA, Yearley S.
PMID: 26477199
Soc Stud Sci. 2015 Jun;45(3):416-40. doi: 10.1177/0306312715583737.

In studies of environmental issues, the question of how to establish a productive interplay between science and policy is widely debated, especially in relation to climate change. The aim of this article is to advance this discussion and contribute...

Caring for nanotechnology? Being an integrated social scientist.

Social studies of science

Viseu A.
PMID: 26630815
Soc Stud Sci. 2015 Oct;45(5):642-64. doi: 10.1177/0306312715598666.

One of the most significant shifts in science policy of the past three decades is a concern with extending scientific practice to include a role for 'society'. Recently, this has led to legislative calls for the integration of the...

How socially distinctive is cognitive deviance in an emergent science? The case of parapsychology.

Social studies of science

Gordon MD.
PMID: 11611001
Soc Stud Sci. 1982 Feb;12(1):151-65. doi: 10.1177/030631282012001012.

No abstract available.

Matters of care in technoscience: assembling neglected things. .

Social studies of science

de la Bellacasa MP.
PMID: 21553641
Soc Stud Sci. 2011 Feb;41(1):85-106. doi: 10.1177/0306312710380301.

This paper aims to encourage an ethos of care in the study of science and technology. It starts with a reading of Bruno Latour's notion of'matters of concern' as favouring an awareness of the ethico-political effects of constructivist accounts...

Cultures of caring: Healthcare 'scandals', inquiries, and the remaking of accountabilities.

Social studies of science

Goodwin D.
PMID: 29316861
Soc Stud Sci. 2018 Feb;48(1):101-124. doi: 10.1177/0306312717751051. Epub 2018 Jan 09.

In the UK, a series of high-profile healthcare 'scandals' and subsequent inquiries repeatedly point to the pivotal role culture plays in producing and sustaining healthcare failures. Inquiries are a sociotechnology of accountability that signal a shift in how personal...

Microeconomic forecasting: Constructing commensurable futures of educational reforms.

Social studies of science

Dix G.
PMID: 30880588
Soc Stud Sci. 2019 Apr;49(2):180-207. doi: 10.1177/0306312719837364. Epub 2019 Mar 18.

According to economists from the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, the introduction of performance pay for primary and secondary school teachers would lead to an increase in Dutch GDP of one-and-a-half percent in 2070. A new epistemic practice...

Fictions and frictions: Promises, transaction costs and the innovation of network technologies.

Social studies of science

Pesch U, Ishmaev G.
PMID: 30880597
Soc Stud Sci. 2019 Apr;49(2):264-277. doi: 10.1177/0306312719838339. Epub 2019 Mar 18.

New network technologies are framed as eliminating 'transaction costs', a notion first developed in economic theory that now drives the design of market systems. However, the actual promise of the elimination of transaction costs seems unfeasible, because of a...

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