Matthew Wisnioski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1045023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Wisnioski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Wisnioski |
| SIGNATURE | WISNIOSKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Provocations from the ‘STS as a Critical Pedagogy’ Workshop
This research article is a collaborative set of reflections and provocations stemming from the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded workshop on STS as a Critical Pedagogy, hosted online during the summer of 2021 by Shannon N. Conley and Emily York at James Madison University. The workshop occurred over four separate sessions, bringing together forty participants (including six undergraduate students who contributed as both facilitators and re…
In it for the Long Haul
How do STS scholars and engineering educators work together over an extended period to make change? In 2015, the National Science Foundation created the Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) initiative to address persistent challenges in engineering education. A distinguishing feature of RED was its focus on culture change via interdisciplinary teams that brought social scientists and engineering education researchers into long-term depar…
The Squares
Economics and Engineering
Reviewed by: Economics and Engineering: Institutions, Practices, and Cultures ed. by Pedro Garcia Duarte and Yann Giraud Matthew Wisnioski (bio) Economics and Engineering: Institutions, Practices, and Cultures Edited by Pedro Garcia Duarte and Yann Giraud. Special issue, History of Political Economy 52, no. 6 ( 2020). Pp. 332. As economists' role in managing society has grown, Nobel Prize winners and science studies scholars alike have noted that…
E ric S chatzberg . Technology
“Technology” is a surprisingly recent innovation: prior to the twentieth century, the word appeared sparingly. It gained some academic credibility between the World Wars. But then, in the 1960s, technology skyrocketed to prominence in debates about the fate of humanity. Scientists and engineers claimed authority over it; governments declared that they could harness its power; and intellectuals lamented its triumph over human life. Ever since, its…
Land-Grant Hybrids
The authors explore the role that public and land-grant universities play in sciences, engineering, arts and design (SEAD). They combine a networked institutional history of art and technology collaborations with an ethnographic study of SEAD initiatives. They use the notion of land-grant hybrids to describe widespread entanglements between research, teaching and public engagement. Their study identifies three “matters of concern” that aid in ret…
Technology Choices
Reviewed by: Technology Choices: Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technologyby Diane E. Bailey and Paul M. Leonardi Matthew Wisnioski (bio) Technology Choices: Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology. by Diane E. Bailey and Paul M. Leonardi. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. Pp. 278. $32. This study of contemporary knowledge work asks whether you are an Arvind, an Eric, or a Sally. Arvind simulates car crashes for a …
Suppose the World Were Already Lost”
This article investigates the origins, goals, and outcomes of modern design-based engineering education in the USA by analyzing an interdisciplinary project that asked students to collaboratively prepare for nuclear holocaust. Project NOAH, conducted at Harvey Mudd College, a pioneering institution in student-centered engineering education, generated national publicity and established an approach to design pedagogy that was observed, appropriated…
Design enigmas
Why MIT Institutionalized the Avant-Garde
This essay explores MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies to address two major absences in understandings of art/science/technology collaboration: 1) what drew scientists and engineers-not just elite policymakers and polymaths, but thousands in the rank and file-to the arts in the first place; and (2) what compelled the institutions of postwar technoscience to provide financial and material support for such endeavors? The essay employs the not…
Liberal Education Has Failed
Published version
Why MIT Institutionalized the Avant-Garde
This essay explores MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies to address two major absences in understandings of art/science/technology collaboration: 1) what drew scientists and engineers-not just elite policymakers and polymaths, but thousands in the rank and file-to the arts in the first place; and (2) what compelled the institutions of postwar technoscience to provide financial and material support for such endeavors? The essay employs the not…
Liberal Education Has Failed
Published version
Design enigmas
Why MIT Institutionalized the Avant-Garde
This essay explores MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies to address two major absences in understandings of art/science/technology collaboration: 1) what drew scientists and engineers-not just elite policymakers and polymaths, but thousands in the rank and file-to the arts in the first place; and (2) what compelled the institutions of postwar technoscience to provide financial and material support for such endeavors? The essay employs the not…
Suppose the World Were Already Lost”
This article investigates the origins, goals, and outcomes of modern design-based engineering education in the USA by analyzing an interdisciplinary project that asked students to collaboratively prepare for nuclear holocaust. Project NOAH, conducted at Harvey Mudd College, a pioneering institution in student-centered engineering education, generated national publicity and established an approach to design pedagogy that was observed, appropriated…
Technology Choices
Reviewed by: Technology Choices: Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technologyby Diane E. Bailey and Paul M. Leonardi Matthew Wisnioski (bio) Technology Choices: Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology. by Diane E. Bailey and Paul M. Leonardi. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015. Pp. 278. $32. This study of contemporary knowledge work asks whether you are an Arvind, an Eric, or a Sally. Arvind simulates car crashes for a …
Land-Grant Hybrids
The authors explore the role that public and land-grant universities play in sciences, engineering, arts and design (SEAD). They combine a networked institutional history of art and technology collaborations with an ethnographic study of SEAD initiatives. They use the notion of land-grant hybrids to describe widespread entanglements between research, teaching and public engagement. Their study identifies three “matters of concern” that aid in ret…
E ric S chatzberg . Technology
“Technology” is a surprisingly recent innovation: prior to the twentieth century, the word appeared sparingly. It gained some academic credibility between the World Wars. But then, in the 1960s, technology skyrocketed to prominence in debates about the fate of humanity. Scientists and engineers claimed authority over it; governments declared that they could harness its power; and intellectuals lamented its triumph over human life. Ever since, its…
Economics and Engineering
Reviewed by: Economics and Engineering: Institutions, Practices, and Cultures ed. by Pedro Garcia Duarte and Yann Giraud Matthew Wisnioski (bio) Economics and Engineering: Institutions, Practices, and Cultures Edited by Pedro Garcia Duarte and Yann Giraud. Special issue, History of Political Economy 52, no. 6 ( 2020). Pp. 332. As economists' role in managing society has grown, Nobel Prize winners and science studies scholars alike have noted that…
In it for the Long Haul
How do STS scholars and engineering educators work together over an extended period to make change? In 2015, the National Science Foundation created the Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) initiative to address persistent challenges in engineering education. A distinguishing feature of RED was its focus on culture change via interdisciplinary teams that brought social scientists and engineering education researchers into long-term depar…
The Squares
Provocations from the ‘STS as a Critical Pedagogy’ Workshop
This research article is a collaborative set of reflections and provocations stemming from the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded workshop on STS as a Critical Pedagogy, hosted online during the summer of 2021 by Shannon N. Conley and Emily York at James Madison University. The workshop occurred over four separate sessions, bringing together forty participants (including six undergraduate students who contributed as both facilitators and re…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Engineering ethics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)