This week, Cornell University researchers will be in Barcelona for this year's 4S/EASST Conference, a joint conference between two scholarly groups – Society for Social Studies of Science and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. The conference aims to examine alternative ways of exploring science and technology, and, more generally, is themed around sociology, anthropology and the history of technology. Here's what our Cornell researchers are up to at 4S/EASST:
Track Convenors
Islands on the Cutting Edge: Test Sites for Reimagining Future Technoscience
Convenors include Kaiton Williams, Phoebe Sengers and Hrönn Holmer (all of Cornell)
STS and Artistic Research
Convenors include Trevor Pinch (Cornell)
Presentations
Cultural Practice and Lay Knowledge: Communicating GMOs in International Contexts
Presenter: John Lunsford (Cornell)
New Heights: Shoes as Technology of the Self
Presenter: Chris Hesselbein (Cornell)
Black Hat, White Hat: Ethicizing Participation in Search Engine Optimization
Presenter: Malte Ziewitz (Cornell)
Drones, Borders, Audits: The US-Mexico Border and the Internet of Things
Presenter: Lauren Kilgour (Cornell)
Travelling Numbers: Tracing the Transformations of Aadhaar
Presenter: Ranjit Singh (Cornell)
Regenerating Nuclear Energy: Neophyte Dreams & Workplace Peopling
Presenter: Vincent Ialenti (Cornell)
Data Pedagogy: Learning to Make Sense of Algorithmic Numbers
Presenter: Samir Passi (Cornell)
Repair as Transition: Temporalities of Breakdown, Maintenance and Recuperation
Presenter: Steven Jackson (Cornell)
Infrastructures of Modernization
Presenter: Phoebe Sengers (Cornell)
An Island is a World
Presenter: Kaiton Williams (Cornell)
Data Science as a Service: Emergent Cultures of Modeling and the Production of Insight
Presenter: Shivrang Setlur (Cornell)
Discussants
Before/after/beyond Breakdown: Exploring Regimes of Maintenance
Discussants include Steven Jackson of Cornell
Counting By Other Means
Discussants include Phoebe Sengers of Cornell