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“What Are We Busy Doing?”: Engaging the Idiot

Science, Technology, and Human Values 37 (5):528-554 (2012)

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Engaging With Strangers and Brief Encounters: Social Scientists and Emergent Public Engagement With Science and Technology.Clare Wilkinson - 2014 - Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 34 (3-4):63-76.details Social scientists operate in a range of roles within the public engagement with science and technology agenda. Social scientists’ strengths in respect to “translation” and “intermediary” skills have captured attention at a time of disciplinary pressure to demonstrate impact. This article explores how social scientists’ engaged in public engagement with science and technology consider their role(s), drawing on 21 semistructured interviews and Horst and Michael’s proposals of an emergence model, in addition to ongoing discussions related to expertise. The findings suggest (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Opening Up the Participation Laboratory: The Cocreation of Publics and Futures in Upstream Participation.Jose Mawyin, Helen Holmes, Nicky Gregson, Prue Chiles, Alastair Buckley, Watson Matt & Anna Krzywoszynska - 2018 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 43 (5):785-809.details How to embed reflexivity in public participation in techno-science and to open it up to the agency of publics are key concerns in current debates. There is a risk that engagements become limited to “laboratory experiments,” highly controlled and foreclosed by participation experts, particularly in upstream techno-sciences. In this paper, we propose a way to open up the “participation laboratory” by engaging localized, self-assembling publics in ways that respect and mobilize their ecologies of participation. Our innovative reflexive methodology introduced participatory (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Characterizing Hacking: Mundane Engagement in US Hacker and Makerspaces.Sarah R. Davies - 2018 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 43 (2):171-197.details The rise of a “maker movement,” located in hacker and makerspaces and involving the democratization of technologies of production and support of grassroots innovation, is receiving increasing attention from science and technology studies scholarship. This article explores how hacking is characterized by users of hacker and makerspaces and relates this to broader discussion of the maker movement as, for instance, promoting innovation, engaged in countercultural critique, or as accessible to anyone. Based on an interview study of users of twelve hacker (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Engineers of Life? A Critical Examination of the Concept of Life in the Debate on Synthetic Biology.Johannes Steizinger - 2016 - In Toepfer Georg & Engelhard Margret (eds.), : Ambivalences of Creating Life – Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synthetic Biology. Springer. pp. 275−292.details The concept of life plays a crucial role in the debate on synthetic biology. The first part of this chapter outlines the controversial debate on the status of the concept of life in current science and philosophy. Against this background, synthetic biology and the discourse on its scientific and societal consequences is revealed as an exception. Here, the concept of life is not only used as buzzword but also discussed theoretically and links the ethical aspects with the epistemological prerequisites and (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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