Torben Elgaard Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 296471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Torben Elgaard Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Torben Elgaard |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN T E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9008-0988 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The cybersecurity dilemma game: Moving cybersecurity beyond solutionism
Faced with ubiquitous cyber-attacks, the field of cybersecurity is scrambling to develop both technical solutions as indicated by incessant streams of updates, and social solutions as indicated by a surge of awareness campaigns. However, it is increasingly clear that the dominating underlying narrative of solutionism–the conviction that relatively neat technical or social fixes can be found to well-defined problems–is strangely out of sync with a…
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature
Mounting critique of the way AI is framed in mainstream media calls for less sensationalist coverage, be it jubilant or apocalyptic, and more attention to the concrete situations in which AI becomes controversial in different ways. This is supposedly achieved by making coverage more expert-informed. We therefore explore how experts contribute to the issuefication of AI through the scientific literature. We provide a semantic, visual network analy…
The Slalom Method: How to zig-zag between digital methods and traditional methods in ethnography
The increasing availability of digital resources is an opportunity as well as a challenge for ethnographers who seek to incorporate 'the digital' into their field studies. This article is an attempt to reflect on the peculiar nature of new digital resources, their relation to conventional method integration problems, and the practical opportunities for making the digital relevant to ethnographic field studies. These reflections are grounded in th…
Exploring the knowledge practices of psychology: Reflections on a field study
The epistemic project of psychology is currently under intense and broad debate. As a contribution to this debate—and as a deliberate attempt to steer the debate towards a more situated and material understanding of epistemology—this article presents a 2-month anthropological field study of how knowledge was produced among a group of psychologists in a psychology department at a Danish university. First, the article presents a detailed account of…
Revisiting the Histories of Mapping Is There a Future for a Cartographic Ethnology
This paper revisits the cartography of material folk culture from the point of view of a current cartographic project in science and technology studies (STS) known as controversy mapping. Considering the mutual learning that has already taken place between ethnological engagements with material culture and material semiotic strands of STS, we ask, what kind of cross-fruition could be gained from expanding the dialogue to cartography and mapmaking…
Intervention by Invitation: New Concerns and New Versions of the User in STS
Over the past three decades, STS has increasingly moved from a position of often ‘studying up’ to a position of often ‘being invited’ into scientifi c, technological and political projects. As a consequence, more and more STS researchers now find themselves having access not only to the sites, but also at times to the discussions and the decisions. With these new points of entry, the key question about intervention may no longer be if STS will be…
The good, the bad and the perfect: Criticizing engagement practice
Criticism seems to be a recurring and significant characteristic of public engagement exercises – as reflected both in general political discussion and in the academic literature on public engagement with science. This article suggests that rather than being a distraction from the main business of ‘technical democracy’, criticism lies at the heart of public engagement and in that way should be seen not simply as an unwelcome and unanticipated by-…
Making consultations run smoothly: An analysis of doctors' skilful use of time inspired by science and technology studies
This article investigates the skilful use of time in general practice consultations. It argues that consultation work involves social and material interactions, which are only partially conceptualized in existing medical practice literatures. As an alternative, this article employs ideas from the field of science and technology studies (STS), including notions of relationality, multiplicity and otherness. Through this lens, and based on extensive…
Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World
French sociologist and philosopher, Bruno Latour, is one of the most significant and creative thinkers of the last decades. Bruno Latour: Hybrid thoughts in a hybrid world is the first comprehensive and accessible English-language introduction to this multi-faceted work. The book focuses on core Latourian themes: • contribution to science studies (STS – Science, Technology & Society) • philosophical approach to the rise and fall of modernity • in…
Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World
French sociologist and philosopher, Bruno Latour, is one of the most significant and creative thinkers of the last decades. Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World is the first comprehensive and accessible English-language introduction to this multi-faceted work. The book focuses on core Latourian themes: • contribution to science studies (STS – Science, Technology & Society) • philosophical approach to the rise and fall of modernity • in…
Experimenting with Commodities and Gifts: The Case of an Office Hotel
The article explores four different images of the relationship between market economy and gift economy drawn from economic sociology and anthropology. Second, it presents a case study of an office hotel, which experimented with the relationship between markets and gifting by urging the companies it hosted to share knowledge and commercial contacts. Drawing on Callon's notions of framing and overflowing, the article shows how various interactions …
Future and Furniture: A Study of a New Economy Firm's Powers of Persuasion
This article explores the differences between two strategies of persuasion. The first strategy, called drawing things together, is Actor-Network Theory's classic analysis of how modern science has gained tremendous persuasive powers through systematic inscription and centralized accumulation of information traces. The second strategy, called drawing contrasts together, is derived from the author's empirical analysis of the rhetorics and materiali…
Identity in the Age of the New Economy: Life in Temporary and Scattered Work Practices
1. Introduction: Studies of Work and Identities beyond the Epochal 2. The Networking Arena 3. The Culturalisation of Work in the 'New' Economy: An Historical View 4. Temporary Stars - The Rise and Fall of Agency 5. On Becoming a Freelance Creative Professional 6. Changing Times, Changing Identities: A Case Study of British Journalists 7. Emerging Identities beyond Organisational Boundaries 8. Afterword: Organisational Change, Work Identity and th…
The good, the bad and the perfect: Criticizing engagement practice
Criticism seems to be a recurring and significant characteristic of public engagement exercises – as reflected both in general political discussion and in the academic literature on public engagement with science. This article suggests that rather than being a distraction from the main business of ‘technical democracy’, criticism lies at the heart of public engagement and in that way should be seen not simply as an unwelcome and unanticipated by-…
Making consultations run smoothly: An analysis of doctors' skilful use of time inspired by science and technology studies
This article investigates the skilful use of time in general practice consultations. It argues that consultation work involves social and material interactions, which are only partially conceptualized in existing medical practice literatures. As an alternative, this article employs ideas from the field of science and technology studies (STS), including notions of relationality, multiplicity and otherness. Through this lens, and based on extensive…
The Slalom Method: How to zig-zag between digital methods and traditional methods in ethnography
The increasing availability of digital resources is an opportunity as well as a challenge for ethnographers who seek to incorporate 'the digital' into their field studies. This article is an attempt to reflect on the peculiar nature of new digital resources, their relation to conventional method integration problems, and the practical opportunities for making the digital relevant to ethnographic field studies. These reflections are grounded in th…
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature
Mounting critique of the way AI is framed in mainstream media calls for less sensationalist coverage, be it jubilant or apocalyptic, and more attention to the concrete situations in which AI becomes controversial in different ways. This is supposedly achieved by making coverage more expert-informed. We therefore explore how experts contribute to the issuefication of AI through the scientific literature. We provide a semantic, visual network analy…
Identity in the Age of the New Economy: Life in Temporary and Scattered Work Practices
1. Introduction: Studies of Work and Identities beyond the Epochal 2. The Networking Arena 3. The Culturalisation of Work in the 'New' Economy: An Historical View 4. Temporary Stars - The Rise and Fall of Agency 5. On Becoming a Freelance Creative Professional 6. Changing Times, Changing Identities: A Case Study of British Journalists 7. Emerging Identities beyond Organisational Boundaries 8. Afterword: Organisational Change, Work Identity and th…
Experimenting with Commodities and Gifts: The Case of an Office Hotel
The article explores four different images of the relationship between market economy and gift economy drawn from economic sociology and anthropology. Second, it presents a case study of an office hotel, which experimented with the relationship between markets and gifting by urging the companies it hosted to share knowledge and commercial contacts. Drawing on Callon's notions of framing and overflowing, the article shows how various interactions …
Future and Furniture: A Study of a New Economy Firm's Powers of Persuasion
This article explores the differences between two strategies of persuasion. The first strategy, called drawing things together, is Actor-Network Theory's classic analysis of how modern science has gained tremendous persuasive powers through systematic inscription and centralized accumulation of information traces. The second strategy, called drawing contrasts together, is derived from the author's empirical analysis of the rhetorics and materiali…
Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World
French sociologist and philosopher, Bruno Latour, is one of the most significant and creative thinkers of the last decades. Bruno Latour: Hybrid thoughts in a hybrid world is the first comprehensive and accessible English-language introduction to this multi-faceted work. The book focuses on core Latourian themes: • contribution to science studies (STS – Science, Technology & Society) • philosophical approach to the rise and fall of modernity • in…
Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World
French sociologist and philosopher, Bruno Latour, is one of the most significant and creative thinkers of the last decades. Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World is the first comprehensive and accessible English-language introduction to this multi-faceted work. The book focuses on core Latourian themes: • contribution to science studies (STS – Science, Technology & Society) • philosophical approach to the rise and fall of modernity • in…
Intervention by Invitation: New Concerns and New Versions of the User in STS
Over the past three decades, STS has increasingly moved from a position of often ‘studying up’ to a position of often ‘being invited’ into scientifi c, technological and political projects. As a consequence, more and more STS researchers now find themselves having access not only to the sites, but also at times to the discussions and the decisions. With these new points of entry, the key question about intervention may no longer be if STS will be…
The good, the bad and the perfect: Criticizing engagement practice
Criticism seems to be a recurring and significant characteristic of public engagement exercises – as reflected both in general political discussion and in the academic literature on public engagement with science. This article suggests that rather than being a distraction from the main business of ‘technical democracy’, criticism lies at the heart of public engagement and in that way should be seen not simply as an unwelcome and unanticipated by-…
Making consultations run smoothly: An analysis of doctors' skilful use of time inspired by science and technology studies
This article investigates the skilful use of time in general practice consultations. It argues that consultation work involves social and material interactions, which are only partially conceptualized in existing medical practice literatures. As an alternative, this article employs ideas from the field of science and technology studies (STS), including notions of relationality, multiplicity and otherness. Through this lens, and based on extensive…
Revisiting the Histories of Mapping Is There a Future for a Cartographic Ethnology
This paper revisits the cartography of material folk culture from the point of view of a current cartographic project in science and technology studies (STS) known as controversy mapping. Considering the mutual learning that has already taken place between ethnological engagements with material culture and material semiotic strands of STS, we ask, what kind of cross-fruition could be gained from expanding the dialogue to cartography and mapmaking…
Exploring the knowledge practices of psychology: Reflections on a field study
The epistemic project of psychology is currently under intense and broad debate. As a contribution to this debate—and as a deliberate attempt to steer the debate towards a more situated and material understanding of epistemology—this article presents a 2-month anthropological field study of how knowledge was produced among a group of psychologists in a psychology department at a Danish university. First, the article presents a detailed account of…
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature
Mounting critique of the way AI is framed in mainstream media calls for less sensationalist coverage, be it jubilant or apocalyptic, and more attention to the concrete situations in which AI becomes controversial in different ways. This is supposedly achieved by making coverage more expert-informed. We therefore explore how experts contribute to the issuefication of AI through the scientific literature. We provide a semantic, visual network analy…
The Slalom Method: How to zig-zag between digital methods and traditional methods in ethnography
The increasing availability of digital resources is an opportunity as well as a challenge for ethnographers who seek to incorporate 'the digital' into their field studies. This article is an attempt to reflect on the peculiar nature of new digital resources, their relation to conventional method integration problems, and the practical opportunities for making the digital relevant to ethnographic field studies. These reflections are grounded in th…
The cybersecurity dilemma game: Moving cybersecurity beyond solutionism
Faced with ubiquitous cyber-attacks, the field of cybersecurity is scrambling to develop both technical solutions as indicated by incessant streams of updates, and social solutions as indicated by a surge of awareness campaigns. However, it is increasingly clear that the dominating underlying narrative of solutionism–the conviction that relatively neat technical or social fixes can be found to well-defined problems–is strangely out of sync with a…
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