Monica M Brannon
Biographic Data
| ID | 246126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica M Brannon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica M |
| FAMILY NAME | Brannon |
| SIGNATURE | BRANNON M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Park University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Uranium mining remediation, environmental assessment, and bureaucratic violence
Science as Snake Oil
This paper examines the public conversation surrounding two failed technology businesses in rural Vermont communities, documenting a particular techno-development discourse. Engaging with the literatures of rural development and science and technology studies (STS), the paper frames this discourse as a mechanism of power exercised by private capital. It analyzes how perspectives shared in news and social media functioned to attribute financial, t…
Datafied and Divided
This essay interrogates the effects that “big data” have on constructing space and subjects that reproduce inequality in the urban landscape. By comparing two different data–driven projects within the same city, data collection and collation is seen to contribute to existing divides along racial and class lines. As urban sociologists seek to capitalize on the vast quantity of data generated by automated devices and networked computation, they mus…
Standardized Spaces
This essay traces the history of perspectival seeing, explaining the normalization of the "view from above" as a historical production of visuality in the post-cold war period, as it has merged with contemporary data renderings to present images as seemingly real representations of space. In explaining how satellite images are produced through the measurement of radiation emitted from the surface, data that are then rendered to mimic an aerial ph…
Standardized Spaces
This essay traces the history of perspectival seeing, explaining the normalization of the "view from above" as a historical production of visuality in the post-cold war period, as it has merged with contemporary data renderings to present images as seemingly real representations of space. In explaining how satellite images are produced through the measurement of radiation emitted from the surface, data that are then rendered to mimic an aerial ph…
Science as Snake Oil
This paper examines the public conversation surrounding two failed technology businesses in rural Vermont communities, documenting a particular techno-development discourse. Engaging with the literatures of rural development and science and technology studies (STS), the paper frames this discourse as a mechanism of power exercised by private capital. It analyzes how perspectives shared in news and social media functioned to attribute financial, t…
Datafied and Divided
This essay interrogates the effects that “big data” have on constructing space and subjects that reproduce inequality in the urban landscape. By comparing two different data–driven projects within the same city, data collection and collation is seen to contribute to existing divides along racial and class lines. As urban sociologists seek to capitalize on the vast quantity of data generated by automated devices and networked computation, they mus…
Uranium mining remediation, environmental assessment, and bureaucratic violence
Standardized Spaces
This essay traces the history of perspectival seeing, explaining the normalization of the "view from above" as a historical production of visuality in the post-cold war period, as it has merged with contemporary data renderings to present images as seemingly real representations of space. In explaining how satellite images are produced through the measurement of radiation emitted from the surface, data that are then rendered to mimic an aerial ph…
Datafied and Divided
This essay interrogates the effects that “big data” have on constructing space and subjects that reproduce inequality in the urban landscape. By comparing two different data–driven projects within the same city, data collection and collation is seen to contribute to existing divides along racial and class lines. As urban sociologists seek to capitalize on the vast quantity of data generated by automated devices and networked computation, they mus…
Science as Snake Oil
This paper examines the public conversation surrounding two failed technology businesses in rural Vermont communities, documenting a particular techno-development discourse. Engaging with the literatures of rural development and science and technology studies (STS), the paper frames this discourse as a mechanism of power exercised by private capital. It analyzes how perspectives shared in news and social media functioned to attribute financial, t…
Uranium mining remediation, environmental assessment, and bureaucratic violence
Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work)