N Marres
Biographic Data
| ID | 57304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Marres |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Marres |
| SIGNATURE | MARRES N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8237-6946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 873 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
A tale of two controversies: Situated AI frictions and the generative AI tsunami
What makes AI controversial? This article reports on an international expert consultation that we conducted between 2021 and 2023 to analyse recent controversies about AI in four countries: the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Canada. Adopting a standpoint approach, this online consultation was designed to activate the collective intelligence of AI & Society expert communities to identify the most important but possibly overlooked controversi…
Reciprocity Deficits: Observing AI in the street with everyday publics
The street has emerged as a primary site where publics are confronted with AI as an everyday reality. AI-based systems are now commonly deployed in this setting in the form of automated cars, facial recognition, smart billboards and the like. While this use of AI in the street has attracted significant media attention and public controversy, such deployments often remain inscrutable, and everyday publics are often unaware of their presence. We re…
Infrastructural Participation in Digital Societies: Challenges and Alternatives
User and citizen participation in the form of micro-actions scripted by digital systems has become indispensable to the functioning of government and society. In this article, we introduce the concept of ‘infrastructural participation’ to evaluate this phenomenon and investigate empirical instances of it in four topical areas: automated vehicles, digital education, citizen science and data protection. We formulate four societal challenges arising…
On the controversiality of AI: The controversy is not the situation
Do public controversies about AI matter? Can they really make a difference to how AI is taken up or imposed on society? This introduction to the Special Issue on Analysing Articifial Intelligence Controversies (?) discusses how the contributing articles and commentaries address this question through original research and critical reflection. We argue that AI presents a watershed moment for the analysis of public controversies about science and te…
Making expert advice public in a time of emergency: Independent Sage and the contestation of science during the Covid pandemic in the UK
This article presents a situational analysis of the expert advice offered by Independent SAGE, a group of scientists that formed in May 2020 in the UK to provide advice on the Covid response. Based on interviews with the group’s members and partners, we argue that through its interventions Indie SAGE demonstrated an important alternative approach to linking science and politics in a time of emergency. They showed that the only way to ensure that …
Do automated vehicle trials test society? Testing mobility futures in the West Midlands
Do automated vehicle (AV) trials in everyday environments like urban streets constitute social tests? This article answers this question with a firm no and yes, based on field study of automated mobility testbeds in the United Kingdom, with a focus on the West Midlands. Engaging with the social studies of testing and automobility futures research, this article examines how AV tests in real-world settings do double duty as tests of society, even a…
How Tech Trials Put Society to the Test
Tech trials turn society into a testing ground, even as they dismantle the conditions for the evaluation of technology from the standpoint of social life. Based on a discussion of street tests of automated vehicles, police pilots of facial recognition technologies, and a controversial trial of a medical diagnostics app in a hospital in the UK, I argue that such tests present 'trials of implicitness'. As these trials inscribe compute-intensive tec…
Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation
Sociologists have long argued that explanation, as a form of knowledge, has serious limitations when it comes to understanding society. The case against explanation is one of the field's founding ideas, it is literally a foundational idea. It was by rejecting causalist forms of explanation that had been developed in the natural sciences that 19th century scholars and activists that we today call sociologists succeeded in articulating a distinctiv…
AI as super-controversy: Eliciting AI and society controversies with an extended expert community in the UK
Following the release of large language models in the late 2010s, the backers of this new type of artificial intelligence (AI) publicly affirmed that the technology is controversial and harmful to society. This situation sets contemporary AI apart from 20th-century controversies about technnoscience, such as nuclear power and genetically modified (GM) foods, and disrupts established assumptions concerning public controversies as occasions for tec…
Experimentalism and Sociology: From Crisis to Experience
Has society become a “real-world laboratory”? Tanja Bogusz asks this question in her book as she traces back the experimentalist approach from early American pragmatism to contemporary world society. She recommends that sociology, as a discipline, transform from a science of crisis towards an experimental science of experience, focusing on heterogeneous cooperation to overcome the epistemic disparities of our time. The speakers will discuss the b…
Seven moments with Bruno Latour
How to Turn Politics Around: Things, the Earth, Ecology
In this article, I give a personal view of Bruno Latour's work on the politics of ecology going back to his work during the early 2000s on the politics of things. Based on my exchanges with Latour over the years, from the time that I became his student in the late 1990s, I show how he developed his understanding of the politics of ecology through a critical engagement with early twentieth-century theories of a "politics of things," notably the on…
Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods
How was testing-and not testing-for coronavirus articulated as a testing situation on social media in the Spring of 2020? Our study examines everyday situations of Covid-19 testing by analyzing a large corpus of Twitter data collected during the first 2 months of the pandemic. Adopting a sociological definition of testing situations, as moments in which it is no longer possible to go on in the usual way, we show how social media analysis can be u…
From indicators to indicating interdisciplinarity: A participatory mapping methodology for research communities in-the-making
This article discusses a project under development called “Inventing Indicators of Interdisciplinarity,” as an example of work in methodology development that combines quantitative methods with interpretative approaches in social and cultural research. Key to our project is the idea that Science and Technology Indicators not only have representative value, enabling empirical insight into fields of research and innovation but simultaneously have o…
Preface to a special issue on the sociology of testing
A test can be defined as an orchestrated attempt to reveal an entity’s potentially unknown properties or capacities. A drug trial, a pregnancy test, and a planetary probe are all procedures designed to ascertain the properties of some entity. However, while tests and testing are well-established social forms, their role in culture, economy, politics, and everyday life seems to be expanding. With smart city experimentation, randomized controlled t…
Put to the test: For a new sociology of testing
In an age defined by computational innovation, testing seems to have become ubiquitous, and tests are routinely deployed as a form of governance, a marketing device, an instrument for political intervention, and an everyday practice to evaluate the self. This essay argues that something more radical is happening here than simply attempts to move tests from the laboratory into social settings. The challenge that a new sociology of testing must add…
Co-existence or displacement: Do street trials of intelligent vehicles test society
This paper examines recent street tests of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the UK and makes the case for an experimental approach in the sociology of intelligent technology. In recent years intelligent vehicle testing has moved from the laboratory to the street, raising the question of whether technology trials equally constitute tests of society. To adequately address this question, I argue, we need to move beyond analytic frameworks developed in 1…
For a situational analytics: An interpretative methodology for the study of situations in computational settings
This article introduces an interpretative approach to the analysis of situations in computational settings called situational analytics. I outline the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of this approach, which is still under development, and show how it can be used to surface situations from large data sets derived from online platforms such as YouTube. Situational analytics extends to computationally-mediated settings a qualitative met…
Why We Can't Have Our Facts Back
How do we make the case for “knowledge democracy” in the face of the growing influence of right-wing figures and movements that denounce experts and expertise? While the threats to knowledge posed by these movements are real, it would be a mistake to return to a classic intellectual strategy––the politics of demarcation––in the face of this danger. Examining practical proposals for combatting fake news and opinion manipulation on the Internet, na…
Response to Steve Hoffman's "The Responsibilities and Obligations of STS in a Moment of Post-Truth Demagoguery"
In this response to Steven Hoffman’s The Responsibilities and Obligations of STS in a Moment of Post-Truth Demagoguery," I insist on the importance of public knowledge, which requires that we distinguish between scientific and public facts. I differentiate between knowledge democracy and populism, as the former entails a refusal of hierarchical visions of the relation between science and politics. I discuss the problem of demarcation, and how the…
Zuiderent-Jerak Teun (2015) Situated Intervention: Sociological Experiments in Health Care. Cambridge & London: The MIT Press. 248 pages
This article is a elaborate review of Teun Zuiderent's book 'Situated Intervention: Sociological Experiments in Health Care' (2015) The MIT Press. The article is based on our comments and the discussions made during the launch of the book at Linköping University in Sweden in October 2015
Interface Methods: Renegotiating Relations between Digital Social Research, STS and Sociology
This paper introduces a distinctive approach to methods development in digital social research called 'interface methods'. We begin by discussing various methodological confluences between digital media, social studies of science and technology (STS) and sociology. Some authors have posited significant overlap between, on the one hand, sociological and STS concepts, and on the other hand, the ontologies of digital media. Others have emphasized th…
Why Map Issues? On Controversy Analysis as a Digital Method
This article takes stock of recent efforts to implement controversy analysis as a digital method in the study of science, technology, and society (STS) and beyond and outlines a distinctive approach to address the problem of digital bias. Digital media technologies exert significant influence on the enactment of controversy in online settings, and this risks undermining the substantive focus of controversy analysis conducted by digital means. To …
Mapping Controversies with Social Media: The Case for Symmetry
This article assesses the usefulness for social media research of controversy analysis, an approach developed in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and related fields. We propose that this approach can help to address an important methodological problem in social media research, namely, the tension between social media as resource for social research and as an empirical object in its own right. Initially developed for analyzing interactions bet…
Performing Environmental Change: The Politics of Social Science Methods
Book Reviews : Handbook of Political Science Methods. By G. DAVID GARSON. (Boston: Hol brook Press, Inc., 1971. Pp. xii, 276. $3.50.)
The Issues Deserve More Credit: Pragmatist Contributions to the Study of Public Involvement in Controversy
This paper explores the `issue-oriented' perspective on public involvement in politics opened up by recent research in Science and Technology Studies (STS). This research proposes that public controversy around techno-scientific issues is dedicated to the articulation of these issues and their eventual accommodation in society. It does not, however, fully answer the question of why issue formation should be appreciated as a crucial dimension of d…
Materials and devices of the public: An Introduction
This introduction provides an overview of material- or device-centred approaches to the study of public participation, and articulates the theoretical contributions of the four papers that make up this special section. Set against the background of post-Foucauldian perspectives on the material dimensions of citizenship and engagement – perspectives that treat matter as a tacit, constituting force in the organization of collectives and are predomi…
Scraping the Social: Issues in Live Social Research
What makes scraping methodologically interesting for social and cultural research?This paper seeks to contribute to debates about digital social research by exploring how a 'medium-specific' technique for online data capture may be rendered analytically productive for social research.As a device that is currently being imported into social research, scraping has the capacity to re-structure social research, and this in at least two ways.Firstly, …
The Redistribution of Methods: On Intervention in Digital Social Research, Broadly Conceived
This paper contributes to debates about the implications of digital technology for social research by proposing the concept of the redistribution of methods. In the context of digitization, I argue, social research becomes noticeably a distributed accomplishment: online platforms, users, devices and informational practices actively contribute to the performance of digital social research. This also applies more specifically to social research met…
Why Map Issues? On Controversy Analysis as a Digital Method
This article takes stock of recent efforts to implement controversy analysis as a digital method in the study of science, technology, and society (STS) and beyond and outlines a distinctive approach to address the problem of digital bias. Digital media technologies exert significant influence on the enactment of controversy in online settings, and this risks undermining the substantive focus of controversy analysis conducted by digital means. To …
The costs of public involvement: Everyday Devices of Carbon Accounting and the Materialization of Participation
This paper seeks to contribute to the development of device-centred perspectives on public participation through an analysis of everyday technologies of carbon accounting. Such instruments are currently put forward, in the UK and elsewhere, as a way of locating environmental engagement in everyday practices, such as cooking and heating. The paper considers whether and how these technologies can be said to ‘materialise’ public participation. It ar…
Put to the test: For a new sociology of testing
In an age defined by computational innovation, testing seems to have become ubiquitous, and tests are routinely deployed as a form of governance, a marketing device, an instrument for political intervention, and an everyday practice to evaluate the self. This essay argues that something more radical is happening here than simply attempts to move tests from the laboratory into social settings. The challenge that a new sociology of testing must add…
Interface Methods: Renegotiating Relations between Digital Social Research, STS and Sociology
This paper introduces a distinctive approach to methods development in digital social research called 'interface methods'. We begin by discussing various methodological confluences between digital media, social studies of science and technology (STS) and sociology. Some authors have posited significant overlap between, on the one hand, sociological and STS concepts, and on the other hand, the ontologies of digital media. Others have emphasized th…
Testing Powers of Engagement: Green Living Experiments, the Ontological Turn and the Undoability of Involvement
This article explores the role of sustainable living experiments as devices of public engagement. It engages with object-centred perspectives in the sociology of science and technology, which have characterized public experiments as sites for the domestication of technology, and as effective instruments of public involvement, because, in part, of the seductive force of their use of empirical forms of display. Green living experiments, which are c…
On Some Uses and Abuses of Topology in the Social Analysis of Technology (Or the Problem with Smart Meters)
This paper examines the limits and possibilities of topological approaches in the social analysis of technology. It proposes that topology should be considered not just as a theory to be adopted, but equally as a device that is deployed in social life in a variety of ways. Digital technologies help to make clear why: these technologies have facilitated the spread of a topological imagination, but they have also enabled a weak form of topological …
Why political ontology must be experimentalized: On eco-show homes as devices of participation
This article contributes to debates about the ontological turn and its implications for democracy by proposing an experimental understanding of political ontology. It discusses why the shift from epistemology to ontology in science and technology studies has proved inconclusive for the study of politics and democracy: the politics of non-humans has been assumed to operate on a different level from that of politics and democracy understood as inst…
The Making of Climate Publics: Eco-homes as Material Devices of Publicity
This article seeks to enrich material perspectives on environmental citizenship by considering current deployments of eco-homes as devices for public involvement in climate change. It discusses environmental awareness campaigns that centre on the home in the light of a warning voiced in political theory, that attempts to locate citizenship in ‘the world of things’ might mean that this category loses its distinctiveness. These campaigns, it propos…
Mapping Controversies with Social Media: The Case for Symmetry
This article assesses the usefulness for social media research of controversy analysis, an approach developed in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and related fields. We propose that this approach can help to address an important methodological problem in social media research, namely, the tension between social media as resource for social research and as an empirical object in its own right. Initially developed for analyzing interactions bet…
Material Participation: Technology, the Environment and Everyday Publics
This book develops a fresh perspective on everyday forms of engagement, one that foregrounds the role of objects, technologies and settings in democracy. Examining a range of devices, from smart meter
Subsuming the ground: How local realities of the Fergana Valley, the Narmada Dams and the BTC pipeline are put to use on the Web
Studies of the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) seek to come to terms with a particular problem of political globalization. While global forums are widely attributed the capacity to put in place the conditions for the resolution of local issues, at the same time these sites are seen to place unacceptable restrictions on the articulation of the issues from localist perspectives. ICTs…
Co-existence or displacement: Do street trials of intelligent vehicles test society
This paper examines recent street tests of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the UK and makes the case for an experimental approach in the sociology of intelligent technology. In recent years intelligent vehicle testing has moved from the laboratory to the street, raising the question of whether technology trials equally constitute tests of society. To adequately address this question, I argue, we need to move beyond analytic frameworks developed in 1…
For a situational analytics: An interpretative methodology for the study of situations in computational settings
This article introduces an interpretative approach to the analysis of situations in computational settings called situational analytics. I outline the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of this approach, which is still under development, and show how it can be used to surface situations from large data sets derived from online platforms such as YouTube. Situational analytics extends to computationally-mediated settings a qualitative met…
Performing Environmental Change: The Politics of Social Science Methods
Book Reviews : Handbook of Political Science Methods. By G. DAVID GARSON. (Boston: Hol brook Press, Inc., 1971. Pp. xii, 276. $3.50.)
AI as super-controversy: Eliciting AI and society controversies with an extended expert community in the UK
Following the release of large language models in the late 2010s, the backers of this new type of artificial intelligence (AI) publicly affirmed that the technology is controversial and harmful to society. This situation sets contemporary AI apart from 20th-century controversies about technnoscience, such as nuclear power and genetically modified (GM) foods, and disrupts established assumptions concerning public controversies as occasions for tec…
How to Turn Politics Around: Things, the Earth, Ecology
In this article, I give a personal view of Bruno Latour's work on the politics of ecology going back to his work during the early 2000s on the politics of things. Based on my exchanges with Latour over the years, from the time that I became his student in the late 1990s, I show how he developed his understanding of the politics of ecology through a critical engagement with early twentieth-century theories of a "politics of things," notably the on…
French Scandals on the Web, and on the Streets: A Small Experiment in Stretching the Limits of Reported Reality
The main argument of this paper is that the Web is well suited for the role of a streetwise informant for protest events. Using special software, we plot the network of Web sites of organisations related to the meat and anti-globalization protests in Milau, France, in June of 2000, and compare our findings about the nature of the actors with the reports in the mass media. Not only do the findings deepen mass media accounts but they also point to …
Making expert advice public in a time of emergency: Independent Sage and the contestation of science during the Covid pandemic in the UK
This article presents a situational analysis of the expert advice offered by Independent SAGE, a group of scientists that formed in May 2020 in the UK to provide advice on the Covid response. Based on interviews with the group’s members and partners, we argue that through its interventions Indie SAGE demonstrated an important alternative approach to linking science and politics in a time of emergency. They showed that the only way to ensure that …
Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation
Sociologists have long argued that explanation, as a form of knowledge, has serious limitations when it comes to understanding society. The case against explanation is one of the field's founding ideas, it is literally a foundational idea. It was by rejecting causalist forms of explanation that had been developed in the natural sciences that 19th century scholars and activists that we today call sociologists succeeded in articulating a distinctiv…
Do automated vehicle trials test society? Testing mobility futures in the West Midlands
Do automated vehicle (AV) trials in everyday environments like urban streets constitute social tests? This article answers this question with a firm no and yes, based on field study of automated mobility testbeds in the United Kingdom, with a focus on the West Midlands. Engaging with the social studies of testing and automobility futures research, this article examines how AV tests in real-world settings do double duty as tests of society, even a…
How Tech Trials Put Society to the Test
Tech trials turn society into a testing ground, even as they dismantle the conditions for the evaluation of technology from the standpoint of social life. Based on a discussion of street tests of automated vehicles, police pilots of facial recognition technologies, and a controversial trial of a medical diagnostics app in a hospital in the UK, I argue that such tests present 'trials of implicitness'. As these trials inscribe compute-intensive tec…
Landscaping climate change: A mapping technique for understanding science and technology debates on the World Wide Web
New World Wide Web (web) mapping techniques may inform and ultimately facilitate meaningful participation in current science and technology debates. The technique described here “landscapes” a debate by displaying key “webby” relationships between organizations. “Debate-scaping” plots two organizational positionings—the organizations' inter-hyperlinking as well as their discursive affinities. The underlying claim is that hyperlinking and discursi…
French Scandals on the Web, and on the Streets: A Small Experiment in Stretching the Limits of Reported Reality
The main argument of this paper is that the Web is well suited for the role of a streetwise informant for protest events. Using special software, we plot the network of Web sites of organisations related to the meat and anti-globalization protests in Milau, France, in June of 2000, and compare our findings about the nature of the actors with the reports in the mass media. Not only do the findings deepen mass media accounts but they also point to …
Pim Fortuyn ou la persistance du rêve communautariste aux Pays-Bas
Précédé d'une introduction de Noortje Marres et de Patrice Riemens qui mettent l'accent sur la reconstitution, lors des élections, d'un communautarisme national ; l'article analyse les événements que constituent l'assassinat de Pim Fortyn et la montée d'un populisme d'extrême droite aux Pays-Bas. Il s'appuie sur une analyse des médias et de la relative cécité des néerlandais à l'égard de la question technologique. Pour l'auteur, Pim Fortyn est es…
Pourquoi prendre des chemins de traverse: De quelques déplacements politiques sur le Web
"Quel est cet animal politique sorti du chapeau de la "gender theory
La seconde vague du féminisme a mis en évidence la particularité de phénomènes que la théorie politique moderne avait conceptualisés comme génériques de par leur nature et leur sujet : le citoyen , la communauté politique, les différents domaines de la politique. Depuis les pratiques et la théorie féministe ou queer ont non seulement montré que le sujet des arrangements et des domaines politiques est toujours historiquement spécifique.. Ils ont é…
A different kind of political realist
A different kind of political realist
The Issues Deserve More Credit: Pragmatist Contributions to the Study of Public Involvement in Controversy
This paper explores the `issue-oriented' perspective on public involvement in politics opened up by recent research in Science and Technology Studies (STS). This research proposes that public controversy around techno-scientific issues is dedicated to the articulation of these issues and their eventual accommodation in society. It does not, however, fully answer the question of why issue formation should be appreciated as a crucial dimension of d…
Space, Politics, and how Experimental can One be
The Making of Climate Publics: Eco-homes as Material Devices of Publicity
This article seeks to enrich material perspectives on environmental citizenship by considering current deployments of eco-homes as devices for public involvement in climate change. It discusses environmental awareness campaigns that centre on the home in the light of a warning voiced in political theory, that attempts to locate citizenship in ‘the world of things’ might mean that this category loses its distinctiveness. These campaigns, it propos…
Subsuming the ground: How local realities of the Fergana Valley, the Narmada Dams and the BTC pipeline are put to use on the Web
Studies of the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) seek to come to terms with a particular problem of political globalization. While global forums are widely attributed the capacity to put in place the conditions for the resolution of local issues, at the same time these sites are seen to place unacceptable restrictions on the articulation of the issues from localist perspectives. ICTs…
Testing Powers of Engagement: Green Living Experiments, the Ontological Turn and the Undoability of Involvement
This article explores the role of sustainable living experiments as devices of public engagement. It engages with object-centred perspectives in the sociology of science and technology, which have characterized public experiments as sites for the domestication of technology, and as effective instruments of public involvement, because, in part, of the seductive force of their use of empirical forms of display. Green living experiments, which are c…
The costs of public involvement: Everyday Devices of Carbon Accounting and the Materialization of Participation
This paper seeks to contribute to the development of device-centred perspectives on public participation through an analysis of everyday technologies of carbon accounting. Such instruments are currently put forward, in the UK and elsewhere, as a way of locating environmental engagement in everyday practices, such as cooking and heating. The paper considers whether and how these technologies can be said to ‘materialise’ public participation. It ar…
Materials and devices of the public: An Introduction
This introduction provides an overview of material- or device-centred approaches to the study of public participation, and articulates the theoretical contributions of the four papers that make up this special section. Set against the background of post-Foucauldian perspectives on the material dimensions of citizenship and engagement – perspectives that treat matter as a tacit, constituting force in the organization of collectives and are predomi…
Material Participation: Technology, the Environment and Everyday Publics
This book develops a fresh perspective on everyday forms of engagement, one that foregrounds the role of objects, technologies and settings in democracy. Examining a range of devices, from smart meter
The Redistribution of Methods: On Intervention in Digital Social Research, Broadly Conceived
This paper contributes to debates about the implications of digital technology for social research by proposing the concept of the redistribution of methods. In the context of digitization, I argue, social research becomes noticeably a distributed accomplishment: online platforms, users, devices and informational practices actively contribute to the performance of digital social research. This also applies more specifically to social research met…
On Some Uses and Abuses of Topology in the Social Analysis of Technology (Or the Problem with Smart Meters)
This paper examines the limits and possibilities of topological approaches in the social analysis of technology. It proposes that topology should be considered not just as a theory to be adopted, but equally as a device that is deployed in social life in a variety of ways. Digital technologies help to make clear why: these technologies have facilitated the spread of a topological imagination, but they have also enabled a weak form of topological …
Why political ontology must be experimentalized: On eco-show homes as devices of participation
This article contributes to debates about the ontological turn and its implications for democracy by proposing an experimental understanding of political ontology. It discusses why the shift from epistemology to ontology in science and technology studies has proved inconclusive for the study of politics and democracy: the politics of non-humans has been assumed to operate on a different level from that of politics and democracy understood as inst…
Scraping the Social: Issues in Live Social Research
What makes scraping methodologically interesting for social and cultural research?This paper seeks to contribute to debates about digital social research by exploring how a 'medium-specific' technique for online data capture may be rendered analytically productive for social research.As a device that is currently being imported into social research, scraping has the capacity to re-structure social research, and this in at least two ways.Firstly, …
Performing Environmental Change: The Politics of Social Science Methods
Book Reviews : Handbook of Political Science Methods. By G. DAVID GARSON. (Boston: Hol brook Press, Inc., 1971. Pp. xii, 276. $3.50.)
Why Map Issues? On Controversy Analysis as a Digital Method
This article takes stock of recent efforts to implement controversy analysis as a digital method in the study of science, technology, and society (STS) and beyond and outlines a distinctive approach to address the problem of digital bias. Digital media technologies exert significant influence on the enactment of controversy in online settings, and this risks undermining the substantive focus of controversy analysis conducted by digital means. To …
Mapping Controversies with Social Media: The Case for Symmetry
This article assesses the usefulness for social media research of controversy analysis, an approach developed in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and related fields. We propose that this approach can help to address an important methodological problem in social media research, namely, the tension between social media as resource for social research and as an empirical object in its own right. Initially developed for analyzing interactions bet…
Zuiderent-Jerak Teun (2015) Situated Intervention: Sociological Experiments in Health Care. Cambridge & London: The MIT Press. 248 pages
This article is a elaborate review of Teun Zuiderent's book 'Situated Intervention: Sociological Experiments in Health Care' (2015) The MIT Press. The article is based on our comments and the discussions made during the launch of the book at Linköping University in Sweden in October 2015
Interface Methods: Renegotiating Relations between Digital Social Research, STS and Sociology
This paper introduces a distinctive approach to methods development in digital social research called 'interface methods'. We begin by discussing various methodological confluences between digital media, social studies of science and technology (STS) and sociology. Some authors have posited significant overlap between, on the one hand, sociological and STS concepts, and on the other hand, the ontologies of digital media. Others have emphasized th…
Why We Can't Have Our Facts Back
How do we make the case for “knowledge democracy” in the face of the growing influence of right-wing figures and movements that denounce experts and expertise? While the threats to knowledge posed by these movements are real, it would be a mistake to return to a classic intellectual strategy––the politics of demarcation––in the face of this danger. Examining practical proposals for combatting fake news and opinion manipulation on the Internet, na…
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