M Horst
Biographic Data
| ID | 45218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Horst |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Horst |
| SIGNATURE | HORST M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9641-5213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
AI in the German Media: Narratives of AI-in-Particular and AI-in-General in German Media Reporting About Artificial Intelligence
The continuing high level of media attention to advances in AI has raised scholarly concerns about hype. However, existing scholarship on AI hype considers its object of study, ‘AI’, as given and stable, rather than tracing how it is discursively constructed. This paper presents a qualitative discourse analysis of four years of AI coverage in German newspapers. It traces how the object of AI itself is constructed in discourse, rather than assumin…
Citizen Science and Public Policy-Making During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Citizen Data Science as an Extended Peer Community
Drawing upon the COVID-19 crisis in Denmark, this paper investigates the relationship between public policy-making and Citizen Science as conducted by citizens analysing and visualizing COVID data through social media. We consider whether this form of Citizen Data Science (CDS) can help inform public debate and influence policy-making during a crisis. Specifically, the paper explores the CDS community, its contributions and policy interactions. T…
The art, science and technology studies movement: An essay review
This is a review essay based primarily on the 2021 Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies, edited by Hannah Star Rogers, Megan K. Halpern, Dehlia Hannah, and Kathryn de Ridder-Vignone. It focuses particularly on the use of art for public engagement with science and technology and it also draws upon the following books: Dialogues Between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies (2023), edited by Henk Borgdorff, Pete…
Always Relevant? Finding a Place for the Social Sciences in the Technical University and the Business School
Relevance with regard to the social sciences can be presented as a new imposition from external stakeholders and an obligation imposed upon the individual researcher. As an alternative approach, we place relevance in a larger institutional but also historical perspective. Taking the case of two non-traditional locations for the social sciences, we suggest that ‘relevance’ has been actively constitutive of both institutions from the beginning—even…
Different pasts, contested presents and desired futures: Local narratives and identities in the co-production of a shared wind energy ownership model
Previously, local actors have often had a stake in renewable energy projects through cooperative ownership and other variants of community energy configurations. However, the increase in project size and necessary investments as well as policy shifts towards auctions and “local energy” have made it difficult for communities to obtain a stake in such developments, while also increasing the potential for controversies. This article investigates the…
Pedagogical Orientations and Evolving Responsibilities of Technological Universities: A Literature Review of the History of Engineering Education
Current societal changes and challenges demand a broader role of technological universities, thus opening the question of how their role evolved over time and how to frame their current responsibility. In response to urgent calls for debating and redefining the identity of contemporary technological universities, this paper has two aims. The first aim is to identify the key characteristics and orientations marking the development of technological…
University Campus Living Labs: Unpacking Multiple Dimensions of an Emerging Phenomenon
Universities and their changing role in society is a source of perennial debate. In this article, we examine the emergent phenomenon of University Campus Living Labs (UCLL), the set of practices by which universities use their own buildings, streets or energy infrastructure as experimental settings in order to support applied teaching, research and co-creation with society. While most existing studies of UCLLs focus on them as sustainability inst…
Dissolving Boundaries in the Policy System
Based on personal experiences with science policy advice, this paper argues that science and technology studies (STS) would benefit from developing closer collaboration and collegial links with innovations studies (IS). When it comes to achieving impact outside our academic circles, disciplinary boundaries do not seem very relevant. Rather, it would be preferential if our contributions were based on systematic interaction with neighbouring fields…
Towards failed renewable energy communities? Activist attempts to change market conditions in the Danish wind energy market
Denmark is known for its bottom-up, participatory approach to developing renewable energy communities, and yet wind power has become ‘big business’ in Denmark and other countries, a market affair for large, private renewable energy companies. Drawing on the performative perspective on markets, this paper examines a non-governmental organization's (NGO's) attempts to innovate the market for wind power deployment in Denmark, to include renewable en…
Rights or resources? Local actor roles in ‘participation’ and ‘co-creation’ in wind energy transitions
Co-creation has been heralded as a potential solution to the often controversial implementation of renewable energy projects. In this paper, we therefore investigate how such co-creation processes work in practice. We present a case study of an onshore utility-scale wind power project in Denmark that developed into a nexus of interaction among a range of actors seeking to materialize their preferred configuration of the project. By applying situa…
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making
Rapid innovation in digital services relying on artificial intelligence (AI) challenges existing regulations across a wide array of policy fields. The European Union (EU) has pursued a position as global leader on ethical AI regulation in explicit contrast to US laissez-faire and Chinese state surveillance approaches. This article asks how the seemingly heterogeneous approaches of market making and ethical AI are woven together at a deeper level …
Historias científicas como cultura: Experiencia, identidad, narrativa y emoción en la comunicación pública de la ciencia
Se publica el artículo de Sarah R. Davies, que forma parte del volumen 18 de la revista Journal of Science Communication, editada en 2019*. La visión que presenta la profesora Davies de la comunicación científica como cultura, es de gran interés para el monográfico que se presenta en este número de la revista Príncipe de Viana. El planteamiento de que la ciencia no es algo externo a la cultura, sino que ambas están entrelazadas, potencia la visió…
Science Communication as a Boundary Space: An Interactive Installation about the Social Responsibility of Science
Science communication has traditionally been seen as a means of crossing the boundary of science: moving scientific knowledge into the public. This paper presents an alternative understanding. Drawing upon a particular case of social science communication in the form of an interactive installation about the social responsibility of science, it develops the concept of boundary space where phenomena can simultaneously belong to science and nonscien…
Identities, innovation, and governance: A systematic review of co-creation in wind energy transitions
Science communication activism: Protesting Traditional Chinese Medicine in China
This article investigates how activists use science communication to protest the regulation and use of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China. The article reports on a participant observation study of the motivations of the activists as well as the form and content of their activities. The article hereby questions the apparently close links between the systems of state and science in China. It also points to different configurations of the relatio…
Nothing really responsible goes on here’: Scientists’ experience and practice of responsibility
Scientists face increasing demands to integrate practices of ‘responsibility’ into their working lives. In this paper, we explore these developments by discussing findings from a research project that investigated how publically funded scientists perceived and practiced responsibility. We show that, though the scientists in this study mostly viewed policy discourses such as Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) as irrelevant to them, they art…
Science Communication: Culture, Identity and Citizenship
This book describes current practices in science communication, from citizen science to Twitter storms, and celebrates this diversity through case studies and examples. However, the authors also refle
Crafting the group: Care in research management
This article reports findings from an interview study with group leaders and principal investigators in Denmark, the United Kingdom and the United States. Taking as our starting point current interest in the need to enhance 'responsible research and innovation', we suggest that these debates can be developed through attention to the talk and practices of scientists. Specifically, we chart the ways in which interview talk represented research mana…
On the weakness of strong ties
Departing from experiences at a recent conference on Science in Dialogue, the paper reflects on the significance of the closure of the Danish Board of Technology as a government funded institution. It is argued that the lack of active support from the Danish public might be an unanticipated consequence of the Board’s successful institutionalisation
Mapping ‘social responsibility’ in science
This article employs the Foucauldian notion of ‘political rationality’ to map discussions and ideals about the responsibility of science toward society. By constructing and analyzing an archive of 263 journal papers, four political rationalities were identified: the Demarcation rationality, which aims to exclude the social from the scientific production in order to make it objective and thereby responsible; the Reflexivity rationality, which sees…
Before Stabilization: Communication and non-standardization of 3D digital models in the building industry
Developments within 3D digital modelling are often heralded as a much needed solution to problems of information loss and communication difficulties within the building industry. Despite the abundance of technical possibilities for innovation, however, there is currently no standardized, widely used digital model that solves these problems. Rather, actors in the building industry are assembling technological and other elements in various ways, tr…
A Field of Expertise, the Organization, or Science Itself? Scientists’ Perception of Representing Research in Public Communication
Social and political interest in science regularly prompts scientists to assume the role of public spokesperson. The article investigates this role of representing science as both “speaking on behalf of” science and symbolically “standing for” science and its organizations. With inspiration from the field of organizational communication, it is argued that science communication should be considered as an activity intimately linked with perceptions…
On the Shoulders of Idiots: Re-thinking Science Communication as 'Event
Characterised by a shift from a diffusion to a deliberation model of science communication, the past decades have witnessed a proliferation of science communication formats. In order to better understand the complexity and novelty of these formats, we propose a 'model of emergence' that conceptualises science communication as an event in which the event itself, as well as the various actors that contribute to it, are emergent. To operationalise t…
Offer eller tykhudet elefant
Kaere laesere, I dette nummer er debatemnet køn i akademia.Et emne som kan synes fortaersket, men som ikke desto mindre er uhyre relevant.Mange studerende og ansatte ved danske universiteter oplever, hvordan forestillinger om køn har betydning for deres dagligdag.Vi spillede bolden op til lektor Maja Horst, som i sin dagligdag som forsker ofte konfronteres med kønsrelaterede problemstillinger.God fornøjelse!Mvh.Debatredaktionen
Collective Closure: Public Debate as the Solution to Controversies about Science and Technology
Developments in biotechnology have sparked off a number of social controversies during the past decades and it has been common to understand public debate as a necessary prerequisite for the ability to deal with these controversies. This is particularly true in the case of Denmark, where public debate has been taking place for more than 25 years; the article uses the Danish example to argue that controversies about biotechnology intersect with fu…
On the Shoulders of Idiots: Re-thinking Science Communication as 'Event
Characterised by a shift from a diffusion to a deliberation model of science communication, the past decades have witnessed a proliferation of science communication formats. In order to better understand the complexity and novelty of these formats, we propose a 'model of emergence' that conceptualises science communication as an event in which the event itself, as well as the various actors that contribute to it, are emergent. To operationalise t…
Nations at Ease with Radical Knowledge: On Consensus, Consensusing and False Consensusness
In response to the recent troubled history of risk-related technological development in Europe, one institutional reaction has been to advocate public deliberation as a means of achieving broad societal consensus over socio-scientific futures. We focus on ‘consensusing’ and the expectation of consensus, and consider both their roots and their performative consequences. We argue that consensus should be seen not simply as the absence of disagreeme…
Crafting the group: Care in research management
This article reports findings from an interview study with group leaders and principal investigators in Denmark, the United Kingdom and the United States. Taking as our starting point current interest in the need to enhance 'responsible research and innovation', we suggest that these debates can be developed through attention to the talk and practices of scientists. Specifically, we chart the ways in which interview talk represented research mana…
Public Expectations of Gene Therapy: Scientific Futures and Their Performative Effects on Scientific Citizenship
The article combines a criticism of public understanding of science (PUS) with the sociology of expectations to examine how particular expectations toward scientific progress have performative effects for the construction of publics as citizens of science. By analyzing a particular controversy about gene therapy in Denmark, the article demonstrates how different sets of expectations can be used to discriminate among three different assemblages: t…
A Field of Expertise, the Organization, or Science Itself? Scientists’ Perception of Representing Research in Public Communication
Social and political interest in science regularly prompts scientists to assume the role of public spokesperson. The article investigates this role of representing science as both “speaking on behalf of” science and symbolically “standing for” science and its organizations. With inspiration from the field of organizational communication, it is argued that science communication should be considered as an activity intimately linked with perceptions…
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making
Rapid innovation in digital services relying on artificial intelligence (AI) challenges existing regulations across a wide array of policy fields. The European Union (EU) has pursued a position as global leader on ethical AI regulation in explicit contrast to US laissez-faire and Chinese state surveillance approaches. This article asks how the seemingly heterogeneous approaches of market making and ethical AI are woven together at a deeper level …
Collective Closure: Public Debate as the Solution to Controversies about Science and Technology
Developments in biotechnology have sparked off a number of social controversies during the past decades and it has been common to understand public debate as a necessary prerequisite for the ability to deal with these controversies. This is particularly true in the case of Denmark, where public debate has been taking place for more than 25 years; the article uses the Danish example to argue that controversies about biotechnology intersect with fu…
Always Relevant? Finding a Place for the Social Sciences in the Technical University and the Business School
Relevance with regard to the social sciences can be presented as a new imposition from external stakeholders and an obligation imposed upon the individual researcher. As an alternative approach, we place relevance in a larger institutional but also historical perspective. Taking the case of two non-traditional locations for the social sciences, we suggest that ‘relevance’ has been actively constitutive of both institutions from the beginning—even…
Rights or resources? Local actor roles in ‘participation’ and ‘co-creation’ in wind energy transitions
Co-creation has been heralded as a potential solution to the often controversial implementation of renewable energy projects. In this paper, we therefore investigate how such co-creation processes work in practice. We present a case study of an onshore utility-scale wind power project in Denmark that developed into a nexus of interaction among a range of actors seeking to materialize their preferred configuration of the project. By applying situa…
Towards failed renewable energy communities? Activist attempts to change market conditions in the Danish wind energy market
Denmark is known for its bottom-up, participatory approach to developing renewable energy communities, and yet wind power has become ‘big business’ in Denmark and other countries, a market affair for large, private renewable energy companies. Drawing on the performative perspective on markets, this paper examines a non-governmental organization's (NGO's) attempts to innovate the market for wind power deployment in Denmark, to include renewable en…
European Scientific Governance in a Global Context: Resonances, Implications and Reflections
Cloning sensations: Mass mediated articulation of social responses to controversial biotechnology
The 1998 announcement by American researcher Richard Seed that he intended to clone a human person for reproductive reasons created a large amount of journalistic attention and controversy in the Danish mass media. Developing a theoretical framework inspired by Bruno Latour, this paper analyzes the mass mediated articulation of this announcement as an exploration of the socially viable interpretations of human cloning within the controversial fie…
European Scientific Governance in a Global Context: Resonances, Implications and Reflections
Public Expectations of Gene Therapy: Scientific Futures and Their Performative Effects on Scientific Citizenship
The article combines a criticism of public understanding of science (PUS) with the sociology of expectations to examine how particular expectations toward scientific progress have performative effects for the construction of publics as citizens of science. By analyzing a particular controversy about gene therapy in Denmark, the article demonstrates how different sets of expectations can be used to discriminate among three different assemblages: t…
Nations at Ease with Radical Knowledge: On Consensus, Consensusing and False Consensusness
In response to the recent troubled history of risk-related technological development in Europe, one institutional reaction has been to advocate public deliberation as a means of achieving broad societal consensus over socio-scientific futures. We focus on ‘consensusing’ and the expectation of consensus, and consider both their roots and their performative consequences. We argue that consensus should be seen not simply as the absence of disagreeme…
Offer eller tykhudet elefant
Kaere laesere, I dette nummer er debatemnet køn i akademia.Et emne som kan synes fortaersket, men som ikke desto mindre er uhyre relevant.Mange studerende og ansatte ved danske universiteter oplever, hvordan forestillinger om køn har betydning for deres dagligdag.Vi spillede bolden op til lektor Maja Horst, som i sin dagligdag som forsker ofte konfronteres med kønsrelaterede problemstillinger.God fornøjelse!Mvh.Debatredaktionen
Collective Closure: Public Debate as the Solution to Controversies about Science and Technology
Developments in biotechnology have sparked off a number of social controversies during the past decades and it has been common to understand public debate as a necessary prerequisite for the ability to deal with these controversies. This is particularly true in the case of Denmark, where public debate has been taking place for more than 25 years; the article uses the Danish example to argue that controversies about biotechnology intersect with fu…
On the Shoulders of Idiots: Re-thinking Science Communication as 'Event
Characterised by a shift from a diffusion to a deliberation model of science communication, the past decades have witnessed a proliferation of science communication formats. In order to better understand the complexity and novelty of these formats, we propose a 'model of emergence' that conceptualises science communication as an event in which the event itself, as well as the various actors that contribute to it, are emergent. To operationalise t…
Before Stabilization: Communication and non-standardization of 3D digital models in the building industry
Developments within 3D digital modelling are often heralded as a much needed solution to problems of information loss and communication difficulties within the building industry. Despite the abundance of technical possibilities for innovation, however, there is currently no standardized, widely used digital model that solves these problems. Rather, actors in the building industry are assembling technological and other elements in various ways, tr…
A Field of Expertise, the Organization, or Science Itself? Scientists’ Perception of Representing Research in Public Communication
Social and political interest in science regularly prompts scientists to assume the role of public spokesperson. The article investigates this role of representing science as both “speaking on behalf of” science and symbolically “standing for” science and its organizations. With inspiration from the field of organizational communication, it is argued that science communication should be considered as an activity intimately linked with perceptions…
On the weakness of strong ties
Departing from experiences at a recent conference on Science in Dialogue, the paper reflects on the significance of the closure of the Danish Board of Technology as a government funded institution. It is argued that the lack of active support from the Danish public might be an unanticipated consequence of the Board’s successful institutionalisation
Mapping ‘social responsibility’ in science
This article employs the Foucauldian notion of ‘political rationality’ to map discussions and ideals about the responsibility of science toward society. By constructing and analyzing an archive of 263 journal papers, four political rationalities were identified: the Demarcation rationality, which aims to exclude the social from the scientific production in order to make it objective and thereby responsible; the Reflexivity rationality, which sees…
Crafting the group: Care in research management
This article reports findings from an interview study with group leaders and principal investigators in Denmark, the United Kingdom and the United States. Taking as our starting point current interest in the need to enhance 'responsible research and innovation', we suggest that these debates can be developed through attention to the talk and practices of scientists. Specifically, we chart the ways in which interview talk represented research mana…
Science Communication: Culture, Identity and Citizenship
This book describes current practices in science communication, from citizen science to Twitter storms, and celebrates this diversity through case studies and examples. However, the authors also refle
Nothing really responsible goes on here’: Scientists’ experience and practice of responsibility
Scientists face increasing demands to integrate practices of ‘responsibility’ into their working lives. In this paper, we explore these developments by discussing findings from a research project that investigated how publically funded scientists perceived and practiced responsibility. We show that, though the scientists in this study mostly viewed policy discourses such as Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) as irrelevant to them, they art…
Science communication activism: Protesting Traditional Chinese Medicine in China
This article investigates how activists use science communication to protest the regulation and use of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China. The article reports on a participant observation study of the motivations of the activists as well as the form and content of their activities. The article hereby questions the apparently close links between the systems of state and science in China. It also points to different configurations of the relatio…
Identities, innovation, and governance: A systematic review of co-creation in wind energy transitions
Historias científicas como cultura: Experiencia, identidad, narrativa y emoción en la comunicación pública de la ciencia
Se publica el artículo de Sarah R. Davies, que forma parte del volumen 18 de la revista Journal of Science Communication, editada en 2019*. La visión que presenta la profesora Davies de la comunicación científica como cultura, es de gran interés para el monográfico que se presenta en este número de la revista Príncipe de Viana. El planteamiento de que la ciencia no es algo externo a la cultura, sino que ambas están entrelazadas, potencia la visió…
Science Communication as a Boundary Space: An Interactive Installation about the Social Responsibility of Science
Science communication has traditionally been seen as a means of crossing the boundary of science: moving scientific knowledge into the public. This paper presents an alternative understanding. Drawing upon a particular case of social science communication in the form of an interactive installation about the social responsibility of science, it develops the concept of boundary space where phenomena can simultaneously belong to science and nonscien…
Different pasts, contested presents and desired futures: Local narratives and identities in the co-production of a shared wind energy ownership model
Previously, local actors have often had a stake in renewable energy projects through cooperative ownership and other variants of community energy configurations. However, the increase in project size and necessary investments as well as policy shifts towards auctions and “local energy” have made it difficult for communities to obtain a stake in such developments, while also increasing the potential for controversies. This article investigates the…
Pedagogical Orientations and Evolving Responsibilities of Technological Universities: A Literature Review of the History of Engineering Education
Current societal changes and challenges demand a broader role of technological universities, thus opening the question of how their role evolved over time and how to frame their current responsibility. In response to urgent calls for debating and redefining the identity of contemporary technological universities, this paper has two aims. The first aim is to identify the key characteristics and orientations marking the development of technological…
University Campus Living Labs: Unpacking Multiple Dimensions of an Emerging Phenomenon
Universities and their changing role in society is a source of perennial debate. In this article, we examine the emergent phenomenon of University Campus Living Labs (UCLL), the set of practices by which universities use their own buildings, streets or energy infrastructure as experimental settings in order to support applied teaching, research and co-creation with society. While most existing studies of UCLLs focus on them as sustainability inst…
Dissolving Boundaries in the Policy System
Based on personal experiences with science policy advice, this paper argues that science and technology studies (STS) would benefit from developing closer collaboration and collegial links with innovations studies (IS). When it comes to achieving impact outside our academic circles, disciplinary boundaries do not seem very relevant. Rather, it would be preferential if our contributions were based on systematic interaction with neighbouring fields…
Towards failed renewable energy communities? Activist attempts to change market conditions in the Danish wind energy market
Denmark is known for its bottom-up, participatory approach to developing renewable energy communities, and yet wind power has become ‘big business’ in Denmark and other countries, a market affair for large, private renewable energy companies. Drawing on the performative perspective on markets, this paper examines a non-governmental organization's (NGO's) attempts to innovate the market for wind power deployment in Denmark, to include renewable en…
Rights or resources? Local actor roles in ‘participation’ and ‘co-creation’ in wind energy transitions
Co-creation has been heralded as a potential solution to the often controversial implementation of renewable energy projects. In this paper, we therefore investigate how such co-creation processes work in practice. We present a case study of an onshore utility-scale wind power project in Denmark that developed into a nexus of interaction among a range of actors seeking to materialize their preferred configuration of the project. By applying situa…
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making
Rapid innovation in digital services relying on artificial intelligence (AI) challenges existing regulations across a wide array of policy fields. The European Union (EU) has pursued a position as global leader on ethical AI regulation in explicit contrast to US laissez-faire and Chinese state surveillance approaches. This article asks how the seemingly heterogeneous approaches of market making and ethical AI are woven together at a deeper level …
Political science (23 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (13 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Social science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)