📢 NEW ARTICLE JUST OUT!
"Governing by dismantling: tech oligarchy and the stifling of public data infrastructure," by @louravn.bsky.social, Bokar N'Diaye, Katie Mackinnon, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, and @dmuravyov.bsky.social is another addition to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy
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📢 Forum on Tech Oligarchy welcomes a new piece!
📜 "Tech-oligarchic visions of automated science: lessons from Franz Neumann’s Behemoth," by Frank Söderberg.
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📄 "Research participants as ‘pioneers’? Exploring how neurotechnology research is adapting the rhetoric of scientific risk-taking, exploration and trailblazing," by Andrew Ivan Brown, Sara Goering, and Eran Klein
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📸 In our latest Media Review "Curating across epistemologies: art, science, and technology studies in practice," Hannah Roger Stars uses an STS lens to analyse the photography exhibition Picturing the Invisible, by Makoto Takahashi.
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📄Our latest Forum on Tech Oligarchy article examines the mechanisms through which tech oligarchy takes shape in the field of urban mobility in China.
"Tech oligarchy and urban mobility in China: the case of DiDi," by @taoyue.bsky.social
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📄"Harmonising automation: Challenge-driven robotics and the making of Europe," by Carlos Cuevas-Garcia, Benjamin Lipp, Federica Pepponia, and Mathieu Baudrin
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📜 In "Leaving Earth behind: the semiotics of the failing planet in NewSpace online corporate imagery," Katherine Harrison shows how NewSpace capitalises on the profitable combination of private spaceflight and terrestrial precarity.
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📜 New article!
In "The specificity ratchet: agribusiness techniques for contesting state knowledge about antibiotics," @lansing.bsky.social shows how industry groups in the US instrumentalize knowledge production to gain favorable public opinion and regulatory advantage
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📜 "The Student becomes the teacher: what the early American automotive industry taught the tech oligarchy, and what the modern industry has learned," by @mcforelle.bsky.social
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Taking DiDi Chuxing as its case, this Forum Article examines the mechanisms through which tech oligarchy takes shape in the field of urban mobility in China. Through a digital analysis of DiDi’s pl...
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Robotics and artificial intelligence are regularly framed as potential solutions to grand societal challenges such as climate change, staff shortages and demographic aging. The European Union has d...
Powerful business groups are known to deny, block, and obfuscate public knowledge about their industries. Public comments by agricultural interest groups concerning the United States Food and Drug ...
Computer-generated imagery (CGI) of Earth published online by the private space industry, or ‘NewSpace,’ produces understandings of a failing planet to justify the commercialisation of space and te...
