Very happy to share our new publication with my brilliant colleagues @BenjaminLipp , @PaulaHelm12 and @karafillidis
"De-centring the interface. Towards the integrated study of interfacial relations" in Information, Communication & Society
https://t.co/ZqE5HOvWn2
What happens when #neuroscience enters #society? Our keynote speaker @PickersgillM will explore the "The Ambivalent Life of the #Brain in the 21st Century” at Medical Museion on 27 June, 3 pm. Register for the event here: https://t.co/bwoSh1aiZH (Deadline: 24 June)
Interested in robots 🤖 and what it means to live 🥳 and work 💪 among them? Find out Thursday at the ICC Theatre's Mind Games. I'm presenting my research on robotics, followed by
a 💯improvised comedy from the talented MindGames Improv team. Tickets: https://t.co/H3jMFzticN
📣 New paper out 📣 A chapter co-written with Henning Mayer just got published in the @OxUniPress Handbook of the Sociology of #MachineLearning. We show the potential of a #sociology of #interfaces to study contemporary human-machine interaction. https://t.co/VD23uuoIsF
📣 New Publication @BigDataSoc on synthetic data: how it is being employed as a limited technical fix to circumvent complex ethico-political problems related to #AI#bias#privacy#platformpower with my fantastic colleagues ✨ @PaulaHelm12 & @RoserPujadas1 https://t.co/n1StrAxcVb
@STS_News Maybe that's a fair judgement for a politically inflated claim in general. Can we produce evidence that ANY engaged / critical / reflective / ... type of STS scholarship has produced ANY effects in the ways you are describing?
@STS_News This is of course not an endorsement of those futures but to say that I find your argument that future-making cannot be effective in bringing about change implausible.
@STS_News Social movements are not the only mode of change. But taken out of that context, isn't the current prominence and success of techno-centric future-making in tech and governance a case in point that future-making is effective in bringing about change?
@STS_News 2nd example: I’m from Germany. We have the issue that the majority of ppl want a transition toward a ‚green future’ but there is a lack of a project, a clear vision by the government. So having that an imagined future (even if it turns out wrong) would be great for change now
@STS_News Of course the point is not the future but the present (cf soc of futures) but why should more inclusive / progressive etc future making not be a resource for positive change?
@STS_News Two examples: I’m using sci-fi for teaching engineers (caught!) not to predict but to intervene into problematic imaginations of the future. I see the danger of making students too confident about it but it can still be eye opening for them irt the present
📣 Publication alert 📣 Opinion piece on #digitalhealth and #chronicpain out in @Nature! Pain tech is captured by digital alternatives but for #access to #integrative pain management we need tech that connects and foster collaboration!
https://t.co/XVFqqVGZzb
@STS_News But isn't that the point about any form of imagination? (sci-fi or not) Not prediction or certainty but anticipation and contingency of futures?