Sally Wyatt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 89102 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sally Wyatt |
| NOMBRES | Sally |
| APELLIDO | Wyatt |
| FIRMA | WYATT S |
| AFILIACIONES | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6663-1591 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 330 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Citational Politics and Justice
This introduction provides an overview of the thirteen articles which constitute this special issue about “citational politics and justice.” The issue begins with a discussion paper, followed by six research articles, one commentary, one project report, one teaching reflection, and finishes with three conversations. Authors reflect on the history and future of citation practices, and what they mean for the recognition of marginalised scholars, kn…
Refusing participation
The rapidly expanding field of artificial intelligence (AI) is often accompanied by calls for parallel research on its societal implications.For research about AI in healthcare, this translates to some form of patient engagement.In this article, we question whether patient engagement and participation really contribute to responsible AI.We first summarise existing critiques of patient participation.We review the critiques of the critiques, themse…
Feminist automation
This article examines ‘feminist chatbots’ as tools for activism through automation. Such bots aim to engage users in automated communication on feminist concerns. The article starts from the assumption that chatbots, like all technologies, have politics and that automation, including the automated communication of chatbots, is a feminist issue. We investigate how feminist chatbots mobilise automation to address societal inequalities and bias. Con…
Navigating contradictions
European states employ migration information campaigns (MICs) to discourage irregular migration to Europe by people from the Global South. Campaigns are justified by their initiators in various ways. On the one hand, campaigns are said to protect ‘potential migrants’ by helping them to make informed decisions (‘care’). On the other hand, campaigns respond to Europe's security objective of restricting migration flows (‘control’). Researchers have …
A Journey through STS and Innovation Studies
This short contribution traces the author’s journey in English universities, through innovation studies to STS in the last two decades of the twentieth century. It highlights the diversity of meanings of the concept of “innovation”, over time, across disciplines and social actors, and the importance of continuing to contest definitions. It concludes by reflecting on what Innovation Studies can offer to STS scholarship
Metaphors in critical Internet and digital media studies
Since its very early days, metaphors have been used by various powerful social actors to try to convey what the Internet is and what it could be used for, now and in the future. In this short essay, I make a plea for critical scholars of the Internet and digital media to be simultaneously careful and imaginative in their own choice of metaphorical language. I revisit some of the early and recurring metaphors, such as frontier, highway and library…
Health, Technology and Society
Section 2
Making Policies for Open Data
This short commentary reflects on policy making for open data. The articles in this special issue all raise interesting challenges and questions for research policy, broadly defined, including how to stimulate researchers to make data open in the first place, how to reuse data sensibly, and how to ensure data are appropriately stored and made accessible for future users. This commentary reflects on the author's own experience of taking part in an…
Controversy goes online
Scientific controversy is increasingly played out via the internet, a technology that is simultaneously content, medium and research infrastructure. Here we analyse material from Wikipedia, focusing on schizophrenia genetics. We find that citation and curation of scientific resources follow a negotiated, ad hoc adherence to Wikipedia rules, are based on limited access to scientific literature, and thus lead to a partially constructed ‘review’ of …
A Computational Turn in the Humanities? A Perspective from Science and Technology Studies
This article examines the implications of the use of computer-based tools and techniques within the \nhumanities, a phenomenon which has exhibited considerable growth and popularity over recent years. \nThe first section provides some historical context for understanding these developments, and the \nsecond section assesses the meaning of these developments for the research practices of humanities \nscholars. The final section raises further ques…
Digital Technologies and Social Transformations
Issues in the development of open access to research data
This paper explores key issues in the development of open access to research data. The use of digital means for developing, storing and manipulating data is creating a focus on ‘data-driven science’. One aspect of this focus is the development of ‘open access’ to research data. Open access to research data refers to the way in which various types of data are openly available to public and private stakeholders, user communities and citizens. Open …
Autobiologies on YouTube
Despite a growing personal genomics market, little is known about how people engage with the possibilities offered by direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing. In order to help address this gap, this study deploys narrative analysis of YouTube videos posted by individuals who have purchased DTC genetic testing for disease. Genetic testing is said to be contributing to new states of illness, where individuals may become "patients-in-waiting." In t…
Participatory Knowledge Production 2.0
In recent years, the role of social media (also referred to as Web 2.0, user-generated content, participation, and crowd sourcing) in nearly all aspects of daily life has hardly been out of the new
Illness Online
Self-reported data are regarded by medical researchers as invalid and less reliable than data produced by experts in clinical settings, yet individuals can increasingly contribute personal information to medical research through a variety of online platforms. In this article we examine this 'participatory turn' in healthcare research, which claims to challenge conventional delineations of what is valid and reliable for medical practice, by using …
Turning to ontology in STS? Turning to STS through ‘ontology’
We examine the evidence for the claim of an ‘ontological turn’ in science and technology studies (STS). Despite an increase in references to ‘ontology’ in STS since 1989, we show that there has not so much been an ontological turn as multiple discussions deploying the language of ontology, consisting of many small movements that have changed the landscape within STS and beyond. These movements do not point to a shared STS-wide understanding of on…
The Gift of Spit (And the Obligation to Return It)
People can now send a sample of their saliva to an internet-based company in order to discover genetic information about themselves. Entering this 'direct-to-consumer' genetic testing (DTC GT) marketplace can result in enticement to engage in various forms of 'participatory' practices, such as taking part in genetic research. In this article, we analyse the research activities of one of the largest and best-known DTC GT companies, 23andMe. 23andM…
Book Symposium on Andrew Feenberg’s Between Reason and Experience
Of Lies, Secrets and Silence
Co-ordinating Passages
This article contributes to the ‘mobilities turn’ in social science by proposing new concepts and methods for analysing the ways in which people draw upon a range of resources to manage everyday mobility. We distinguish between the ‘projects’ people want to achieve and the ‘passages’ they need to go through in order to do so. We also distinguish between ‘pre‐travelling’ and ‘re‐ordering’. The analysis builds on insights from time‐geography, mobil…
Christine Hine, Systematics as Cyberscience
A Body of Text
This article re-evaluates the relationship between gender identities, embodiment, sexuality and text-based, synchronous CMC (computer-mediated communication). A discourse analysis was conducted on two different IRC channels: #Cyberbar, a channel that hosts predominantly "straight" male/female gender performances; and #Queer, a channel mostly visited by participants who articulate "gay male" gender identities. The notion of embodiment played a piv…
Feminism, Technology and the Information Society Learning From the Past, Imagining the Future
This article examines second wave and post-second wave feminist writing about the possibilities of (contemporaneously) new information and communication technologies. A number of texts by key authors, including Shulamith Firestone, Valerie Solanas, Cynthia Cockburn, Donna Haraway and Sadie Plant, are examined in light of the social and political context of their time of writing as well as in relation to 'mainstream' information society theorists …
Writing from Experience
This article examines how weblog authors present their online gender identity, in order to establish how these modes of presentation fit into the research landscape about gender identity and computer-mediated communication (CMC). After a preliminary descriptive analysis of a sample of Dutch and Flemish weblogs, the authors conduct a qualitative content analysis of four of these `blogs'. They conclude that these weblog writers present their gender…
Ignorance is bliss sometimes
In this paper we describe and analyse results from an empirical study designed to provide insight into factors facilitating and/or inhibiting the emergence of the much-heralded 'informed patient' and its sociological equivalent, the 'reflexive patient' or 'reflexive consumer'. In particular, we seek to examine the relationship between information and empowerment in a healthcare context and assess the significance of the Internet in mediating this…
Connections, new ways of working in the networked organization
Turning to ontology in STS? Turning to STS through ‘ontology’
We examine the evidence for the claim of an ‘ontological turn’ in science and technology studies (STS). Despite an increase in references to ‘ontology’ in STS since 1989, we show that there has not so much been an ontological turn as multiple discussions deploying the language of ontology, consisting of many small movements that have changed the landscape within STS and beyond. These movements do not point to a shared STS-wide understanding of on…
The Gift of Spit (And the Obligation to Return It)
People can now send a sample of their saliva to an internet-based company in order to discover genetic information about themselves. Entering this 'direct-to-consumer' genetic testing (DTC GT) marketplace can result in enticement to engage in various forms of 'participatory' practices, such as taking part in genetic research. In this article, we analyse the research activities of one of the largest and best-known DTC GT companies, 23andMe. 23andM…
Metaphors in critical Internet and digital media studies
Since its very early days, metaphors have been used by various powerful social actors to try to convey what the Internet is and what it could be used for, now and in the future. In this short essay, I make a plea for critical scholars of the Internet and digital media to be simultaneously careful and imaginative in their own choice of metaphorical language. I revisit some of the early and recurring metaphors, such as frontier, highway and library…
Autobiologies on YouTube
Despite a growing personal genomics market, little is known about how people engage with the possibilities offered by direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing. In order to help address this gap, this study deploys narrative analysis of YouTube videos posted by individuals who have purchased DTC genetic testing for disease. Genetic testing is said to be contributing to new states of illness, where individuals may become "patients-in-waiting." In t…
The digital divide, health information and everyday life
Survey data confirms that health information is very popular with internet users yet relatively little qualitative social science research has been conducted about how people incorporate information from the internet into their everyday information practices. This article reports on an empirical study of the role of the internet in people’s efforts to inform themselves about menopause and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in the case of women, an…
Danger! Metaphors at Work in Economics, Geophysiology, and the Internet
The authoranalyzes the types of metaphors that are used to describe the Internetin issues of Wired magazine from before and after the dot-com collapse to understand the perceptions and expectations of some of the actors involved in the shaping of the Internet. In addition, the metaphors deployed in economics and geophysiology are used to demonstrate how metaphors can influence public debate, policy, and theory. The author argues that metaphors do…
Co-ordinating Passages
This article contributes to the ‘mobilities turn’ in social science by proposing new concepts and methods for analysing the ways in which people draw upon a range of resources to manage everyday mobility. We distinguish between the ‘projects’ people want to achieve and the ‘passages’ they need to go through in order to do so. We also distinguish between ‘pre‐travelling’ and ‘re‐ordering’. The analysis builds on insights from time‐geography, mobil…
Illness Online
Self-reported data are regarded by medical researchers as invalid and less reliable than data produced by experts in clinical settings, yet individuals can increasingly contribute personal information to medical research through a variety of online platforms. In this article we examine this 'participatory turn' in healthcare research, which claims to challenge conventional delineations of what is valid and reliable for medical practice, by using …
Home on the Range
This article introduces the special issue on middle-range theory in science and technology studies (STS), providing the background to its production and reviewing different notions of "middle." It begins with Merton's ideas about middle-range theory as a way of moving beyond the production of either descriptions or theories of everything. Instead of seeing the middle as the space between the theoretical imagination and the detailed depiction of e…
Writing from Experience
This article examines how weblog authors present their online gender identity, in order to establish how these modes of presentation fit into the research landscape about gender identity and computer-mediated communication (CMC). After a preliminary descriptive analysis of a sample of Dutch and Flemish weblogs, the authors conduct a qualitative content analysis of four of these `blogs'. They conclude that these weblog writers present their gender…
Feminism, Technology and the Information Society Learning From the Past, Imagining the Future
This article examines second wave and post-second wave feminist writing about the possibilities of (contemporaneously) new information and communication technologies. A number of texts by key authors, including Shulamith Firestone, Valerie Solanas, Cynthia Cockburn, Donna Haraway and Sadie Plant, are examined in light of the social and political context of their time of writing as well as in relation to 'mainstream' information society theorists …
A Body of Text
This article re-evaluates the relationship between gender identities, embodiment, sexuality and text-based, synchronous CMC (computer-mediated communication). A discourse analysis was conducted on two different IRC channels: #Cyberbar, a channel that hosts predominantly "straight" male/female gender performances; and #Queer, a channel mostly visited by participants who articulate "gay male" gender identities. The notion of embodiment played a piv…
Expert systems in public administration
Making Policies for Open Data
This short commentary reflects on policy making for open data. The articles in this special issue all raise interesting challenges and questions for research policy, broadly defined, including how to stimulate researchers to make data open in the first place, how to reuse data sensibly, and how to ensure data are appropriately stored and made accessible for future users. This commentary reflects on the author's own experience of taking part in an…
The technology gamble, informatics and public policy
Expert systems in public administration
The technology gamble, informatics and public policy
Offices and office work
Blurred partitions but thicker walls
Connections, new ways of working in the networked organization
Technoculture
Technoculture
Virtual light
Technology and In/equality
Non-Users Also Matter
Ignorance is bliss sometimes
In this paper we describe and analyse results from an empirical study designed to provide insight into factors facilitating and/or inhibiting the emergence of the much-heralded 'informed patient' and its sociological equivalent, the 'reflexive patient' or 'reflexive consumer'. In particular, we seek to examine the relationship between information and empowerment in a healthcare context and assess the significance of the Internet in mediating this…
Danger! Metaphors at Work in Economics, Geophysiology, and the Internet
The authoranalyzes the types of metaphors that are used to describe the Internetin issues of Wired magazine from before and after the dot-com collapse to understand the perceptions and expectations of some of the actors involved in the shaping of the Internet. In addition, the metaphors deployed in economics and geophysiology are used to demonstrate how metaphors can influence public debate, policy, and theory. The author argues that metaphors do…
The digital divide, health information and everyday life
Survey data confirms that health information is very popular with internet users yet relatively little qualitative social science research has been conducted about how people incorporate information from the internet into their everyday information practices. This article reports on an empirical study of the role of the internet in people’s efforts to inform themselves about menopause and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in the case of women, an…
Writing from Experience
This article examines how weblog authors present their online gender identity, in order to establish how these modes of presentation fit into the research landscape about gender identity and computer-mediated communication (CMC). After a preliminary descriptive analysis of a sample of Dutch and Flemish weblogs, the authors conduct a qualitative content analysis of four of these `blogs'. They conclude that these weblog writers present their gender…
Home on the Range
This article introduces the special issue on middle-range theory in science and technology studies (STS), providing the background to its production and reviewing different notions of "middle." It begins with Merton's ideas about middle-range theory as a way of moving beyond the production of either descriptions or theories of everything. Instead of seeing the middle as the space between the theoretical imagination and the detailed depiction of e…
A Body of Text
This article re-evaluates the relationship between gender identities, embodiment, sexuality and text-based, synchronous CMC (computer-mediated communication). A discourse analysis was conducted on two different IRC channels: #Cyberbar, a channel that hosts predominantly "straight" male/female gender performances; and #Queer, a channel mostly visited by participants who articulate "gay male" gender identities. The notion of embodiment played a piv…
Feminism, Technology and the Information Society Learning From the Past, Imagining the Future
This article examines second wave and post-second wave feminist writing about the possibilities of (contemporaneously) new information and communication technologies. A number of texts by key authors, including Shulamith Firestone, Valerie Solanas, Cynthia Cockburn, Donna Haraway and Sadie Plant, are examined in light of the social and political context of their time of writing as well as in relation to 'mainstream' information society theorists …
Christine Hine, Systematics as Cyberscience
Co-ordinating Passages
This article contributes to the ‘mobilities turn’ in social science by proposing new concepts and methods for analysing the ways in which people draw upon a range of resources to manage everyday mobility. We distinguish between the ‘projects’ people want to achieve and the ‘passages’ they need to go through in order to do so. We also distinguish between ‘pre‐travelling’ and ‘re‐ordering’. The analysis builds on insights from time‐geography, mobil…
Book Symposium on Andrew Feenberg’s Between Reason and Experience
Of Lies, Secrets and Silence
Turning to ontology in STS? Turning to STS through ‘ontology’
We examine the evidence for the claim of an ‘ontological turn’ in science and technology studies (STS). Despite an increase in references to ‘ontology’ in STS since 1989, we show that there has not so much been an ontological turn as multiple discussions deploying the language of ontology, consisting of many small movements that have changed the landscape within STS and beyond. These movements do not point to a shared STS-wide understanding of on…
The Gift of Spit (And the Obligation to Return It)
People can now send a sample of their saliva to an internet-based company in order to discover genetic information about themselves. Entering this 'direct-to-consumer' genetic testing (DTC GT) marketplace can result in enticement to engage in various forms of 'participatory' practices, such as taking part in genetic research. In this article, we analyse the research activities of one of the largest and best-known DTC GT companies, 23andMe. 23andM…
Participatory Knowledge Production 2.0
In recent years, the role of social media (also referred to as Web 2.0, user-generated content, participation, and crowd sourcing) in nearly all aspects of daily life has hardly been out of the new
Illness Online
Self-reported data are regarded by medical researchers as invalid and less reliable than data produced by experts in clinical settings, yet individuals can increasingly contribute personal information to medical research through a variety of online platforms. In this article we examine this 'participatory turn' in healthcare research, which claims to challenge conventional delineations of what is valid and reliable for medical practice, by using …
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