Nina Wakeford
Biographic Data
| ID | 297916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nina Wakeford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nina |
| FAMILY NAME | Wakeford |
| SIGNATURE | WAKEFORD N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Careful Whisper, Heart Feminism
This Image & Text piece is a polyvocal account of Careful Whisper, an experimental installation at the Science Gallery London involving a re-engagement with an essay published in the inaugural issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, “Heart Feminism” (Pollock 2015). After an introduction that situates the project in the domain of art and STS, each of the project’s collaborators contributes a section to this paper: feminist STS scholar …
Number ecologies: Numbers and Numbering Practices
In putting together this Special Issue we seek to contribute to the social study of number, a field which has acquired renewed significance in recent years with a revival in forms of self- and coll
Transnationalism, technoscience and difference: The analysis of material-semiotic practices
Increasingly cultural criticism is questioning essentialist perspectives on technology which link it inescapably with masculinity, men's activities, and the absence of female participation (Stabile 1994; Ormrod 1995; Grint and Woolgar 1995; Terry and Calvert 1997). Indeed the categories of ‘gender’ and ‘technology’ may not be as discrete as is suggested by a formula in which gender is superimposed on technology, or vice versa. Feminist theorists …
Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social
Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept pace with these changes. This volume provides a set of new approaches for the investigation of the contemporary world. Building on the increasing importan…
Feminist Technoscience: Intimacy, Embodiment and Abjection in Science Studies
Power Point and the Crafting of Social Data
In this paper I suggest that we should take a closer look at how we use PowerPoint. Authoring and presenting via PowerPoint is an invisible yet pervasive part of the work involved in corporate ethnography. Rather than being a pointer to a text elsewhere PowerPoint both produces the evidence of having done the ethnographic work as well as being expected to constitute the ethnographic analysis. The challenge of such software is not that it offers t…
Technofeminism - Judy Wajcman
Craft, Value, And The Fetishism Of Method
In order to set the scene for the panel on methods, I will be drawing on C Wright Mills' injunction to avoid the fetishism of method. Mills urges us to think about our methods in terms of a process of craft production. I want to explore what key elements of this craft might be, beyond the usual focus on actual techniques such as interviewing or ethnographically informed data collection. Foregrounding the papers in the session, I will examine idea…
Pushing at the Boundaries of New Media Studies
Research Note: Working with New Media's Cultural Intermediaries
This article does not have an abstract
The Embedding of Local Culture in Global Communication: Independent Internet Cafés in London
Although public internet access in London is dominated by the large chain easy Internet Cafe, outside the central areas many small independent internet cafés are catering to local populations. This article examines the ways in which two of these cafés operate. Participant observation and interviews provide the data for this study of the ways in which both the local and the global are embedded into the internet cultures which are found in such set…
The Social Life of Avatars: Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments
Number ecologies: Numbers and Numbering Practices
In putting together this Special Issue we seek to contribute to the social study of number, a field which has acquired renewed significance in recent years with a revival in forms of self- and coll
The Embedding of Local Culture in Global Communication: Independent Internet Cafés in London
Although public internet access in London is dominated by the large chain easy Internet Cafe, outside the central areas many small independent internet cafés are catering to local populations. This article examines the ways in which two of these cafés operate. Participant observation and interviews provide the data for this study of the ways in which both the local and the global are embedded into the internet cultures which are found in such set…
Power Point and the Crafting of Social Data
In this paper I suggest that we should take a closer look at how we use PowerPoint. Authoring and presenting via PowerPoint is an invisible yet pervasive part of the work involved in corporate ethnography. Rather than being a pointer to a text elsewhere PowerPoint both produces the evidence of having done the ethnographic work as well as being expected to constitute the ethnographic analysis. The challenge of such software is not that it offers t…
Pushing at the Boundaries of New Media Studies
Craft, Value, And The Fetishism Of Method
In order to set the scene for the panel on methods, I will be drawing on C Wright Mills' injunction to avoid the fetishism of method. Mills urges us to think about our methods in terms of a process of craft production. I want to explore what key elements of this craft might be, beyond the usual focus on actual techniques such as interviewing or ethnographically informed data collection. Foregrounding the papers in the session, I will examine idea…
The Social Life of Avatars: Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments
Research Note: Working with New Media's Cultural Intermediaries
This article does not have an abstract
The Embedding of Local Culture in Global Communication: Independent Internet Cafés in London
Although public internet access in London is dominated by the large chain easy Internet Cafe, outside the central areas many small independent internet cafés are catering to local populations. This article examines the ways in which two of these cafés operate. Participant observation and interviews provide the data for this study of the ways in which both the local and the global are embedded into the internet cultures which are found in such set…
Pushing at the Boundaries of New Media Studies
Craft, Value, And The Fetishism Of Method
In order to set the scene for the panel on methods, I will be drawing on C Wright Mills' injunction to avoid the fetishism of method. Mills urges us to think about our methods in terms of a process of craft production. I want to explore what key elements of this craft might be, beyond the usual focus on actual techniques such as interviewing or ethnographically informed data collection. Foregrounding the papers in the session, I will examine idea…
Feminist Technoscience: Intimacy, Embodiment and Abjection in Science Studies
Power Point and the Crafting of Social Data
In this paper I suggest that we should take a closer look at how we use PowerPoint. Authoring and presenting via PowerPoint is an invisible yet pervasive part of the work involved in corporate ethnography. Rather than being a pointer to a text elsewhere PowerPoint both produces the evidence of having done the ethnographic work as well as being expected to constitute the ethnographic analysis. The challenge of such software is not that it offers t…
Technofeminism - Judy Wajcman
Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social
Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept pace with these changes. This volume provides a set of new approaches for the investigation of the contemporary world. Building on the increasing importan…
Transnationalism, technoscience and difference: The analysis of material-semiotic practices
Increasingly cultural criticism is questioning essentialist perspectives on technology which link it inescapably with masculinity, men's activities, and the absence of female participation (Stabile 1994; Ormrod 1995; Grint and Woolgar 1995; Terry and Calvert 1997). Indeed the categories of ‘gender’ and ‘technology’ may not be as discrete as is suggested by a formula in which gender is superimposed on technology, or vice versa. Feminist theorists …
Number ecologies: Numbers and Numbering Practices
In putting together this Special Issue we seek to contribute to the social study of number, a field which has acquired renewed significance in recent years with a revival in forms of self- and coll
Careful Whisper, Heart Feminism
This Image & Text piece is a polyvocal account of Careful Whisper, an experimental installation at the Science Gallery London involving a re-engagement with an essay published in the inaugural issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, “Heart Feminism” (Pollock 2015). After an introduction that situates the project in the domain of art and STS, each of the project’s collaborators contributes a section to this paper: feminist STS scholar …
Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Social science (4 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)