Jason_Scroggins

The trouble with new knowledge. Anthro of Ed otherwise.

[Jason_Scroggins @Jason_Scroggins]

@timgill924 Can you believe they are doing it again? https://t.co/PwuDjoxV00

[Shreeharsh Kelkar @scritic]

New blog post: what makes social media different and harder to regulate? It's not your usual suspects: profit making motives, "algorithms," or advertisements. It's three things: sheer scale, the collapse of contexts, and the puzzle of virality.

[Jason_Scroggins @Jason_Scroggins]

@timgill924 Everything about this is fantastic.

[Shreeharsh Kelkar @scritic]

There’s been a lot of coverage blaming the voters for their prejudices, or for being susceptible to “misinformation.” So I wrote a an #explainer of one of my favorite #sts studies: Brian Wynne’s study of the Cumbrian sheep farmers and their distrust of the government scientists.

[Jason_Scroggins @Jason_Scroggins]

80's cosplay

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Oh my goodness. What an opening on 60 Minutes re Trump’s cabinet. This is how it’s done. Watch and share this.

[Lee Vinsel @STS_News]

Deeply fascinating paper on public understanding of inflation shows that many people do not understand the topic AT ALL.

"Inflation" is really less about reasoning and more about what John Levi Martin calls "social aesthetics" - group-based feelings.

https://t.co/B0dskrkboo

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

Please don’t deactivate your account today. The worst is yet to come!

[Ben Wikler @benwikler]

One of the joys of canvassing is that you meet people who fall into nobody's mental categories.

Case in point: the 70yo white guy I just canvassed who told me he's undecided because they're both great candidates and both would do a great job.

[Jason_Scroggins @Jason_Scroggins]

@bartlebytaco Correct

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

In the 1960s the nutty far right decided fluoride in America’s drinking water was a communist plot, and in Omaha a big backer of banning it was our across-the-street neighbor Marge Lamp, mother of Ginni Lamp, the future far-right nut Mrs. Clarence Thomas. https://t.co/co4dZZ37p3

[Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov]

First as tragedy, then as farce.

[Shreeharsh Kelkar @scritic]

New post from me about one of my favorite #STS papers, Daniel Sarewitz's "How science makes environmental controversies worse," about how it's a call not for more politics per se but for political innovation.

[Lee Vinsel @STS_News]

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[LM Sacasas @LMSacasas]

If you're in the vicinity of Virginia Tech tonight, come join me and the amazing @STS_News for a conversation about the question of technology *and* the human at the Bradley Center. https://t.co/jejoY9I9ti

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

people on here hating coconut water and pho have me questioning my reality

[Jason_Scroggins @Jason_Scroggins]

@scritic There is a paragraph or so in the chapter I sent you where I compare him to Peter Thiel.

[Shreeharsh Kelkar @scritic]

I wrote about the late David Graeber's theory of technology, based primarily on his essay in @thebafflermag titled "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit" and his book "Bullshit Jobs" (focusing on his treatment of what he calls "duct tape" jobs involving maintenance)

[Jason_Scroggins @Jason_Scroggins]

@timgill924 There is a lot going on in that picture.

[Dr. Dan Souleles @dansouleles]

I'm never sure how many folks are still on here, but I just published an article I'm pretty happy with:

https://t.co/6aZUoSEFVR

[Matthew H. Young 🇺🇸 @matthenryyoung]

Personally I think folks romanticize college because it was the last time most folks lived in an all-inclusive resort where all the cooking, cleaning, and landscaping was done by poorly paid blue collar workers so they could focus on hanging out with their friends.