Record of the Week (Week of 17 March 2014)
This is some of the STS (science, technology, and society) literature that caught my attention during the course of the week of 17 March 2014).
ANTHROPOLOGY
Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC) – Auxiliary Motives and the Anthropology of Technology
Savage Minds – Ontology and wonder: an interview with Michael W. Scott
Somatosphere –
- TB/HIV: Distinct Histories, Entangled Futures. Towards an Epistemology of Co-infection
- A reader’s guide to the “ontological turn” – Part 4
- Brain
CLIMATE CHANGE
The Guardian – Climate change is putting world at risk of irreversible changes, scientists warn
The Huffington Post – White House Unveils Climate Data Website To ‘Empower America’s Communities To Prepare’
COMMUNICATION
Environmental Communication – Environmental Risks in Newspaper Coverage: A Framing Analysis of Investigative Reports on Environmental Problems in 10 Chinese Newspapers
Harvard Business Review Blog Network – A Presentation Isn’t Always the Right Way to Communicate
Just Publics @365 Blog – Getting Academic Research into the Public Sphere: The Rundown on Repositories
FRACKING
Journalist’s Resource – The impact of natural gas extraction and fracking on state and local roadways
Climate Central – Drilling, Fracking Efficiency Fuels Oil and Gas Boom
GENETICS
New Genetics and Society – Making the Mexican diabetic: race, science, and the genetics of identity [AHEAD OF PRINT]
GEOGRAPHY
Geography Directions – Time to rethink the e-waste problem
INTERNET etc.
The New York Times – Warming Up to the Culture of Wikipedia
RESEARCH
AR Cameron blog – Mainstream not third stream: Inside Government seminar on implementing the Witty Review.
Universities UK blog – Universities’ economic impact – new research revealed soon
LSE Impact Blog –
- BIS report on UK Research Councils: Drop in income sees fewer researchers supported but more knowledge created.
- Open data sheds light on how universities are minority providers of commissioned research to government
- Research datasets need to be easy to find if they are to achieve their potential impact
Alliance for Useful Evidence – The creation of a new service to unlock research expertise – and you hold the key
The Guardian – We aim to put research evidence on tap for UK politicians
The Guardian’s Higher Education Network – Is pressure on postdocs leading to ‘massaged’ research?
The Scholarly Kitchen Blog – Wellcome Money — In This Example of Open Access Funding, the Matthew Effect Dominates
RISK
Journal of Risk Research – Something old and something new: comparing views about nanotechnology and nuclear energy
SCIENCE
Buzzfeed – Watch The Moment A Scientist Gets Told His Life’s Work Has Been Proven Right
SCIENCE – COMMUNICATION
SciLog’s Communication Breakdown Blog – Non-English Science Communication: An Overview
Scientific American Blogs: Symbioartic – What If All The Images Went Away
A Candle in the Dark Blog – Care about the future of science? Be visible.
SCIENCE – EDUCATION
Cultural Studies of Science Education – A cultural historical theoretical perspective of discourse and design in the science classroom
Science & Education – Scientists, Engineers and the Society of Free Choice: Enrollment as Policy and Practice in Swedish Science and Technology Education 1960–1990
Science Education –
- What’s In a Name?: Epistemology, “Epistemology,” and Science Education
- Epistemology of Science vs. Epistemology for Science
SCIENCE – POLICY
Policy Science – Scientific opinion in policymaking: the case of climate change adaptation
Journalist’s Resource – How policymakers can get a rigorous assessment of scientific opinion: Research brief
SCIENCE – PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Department of Business, Innovation & Skills (UK) Science & Society Blog –
- National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement – a strategic imperative: A manifesto for public engagement within higher education
- What do we know about UK public attitudes to science?
Social Science & Medicine – The use of citizens’ juries in health policy decision-making: A systematic review [OPEN ACCESS]
SOCIAL MEDIA
The Sociological Life blog – An interview in which I talk about using social media to promote academic research
Social Media Collective Research Blog – Why Snapchat is Valuable: It’s All About Attention
The Atlantic – Turkey’s Government Can’t Stop Twitter
LSE Impact Blog – Social media is a ticking time bomb for universities with an outdated web presence.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Activism –
- Uniting Political Bloggers in Diversity: Collective Identity and Web Activism [OPEN ACCESS]
- Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin’s Sources on Twitter During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions [OPEN ACCESS]
- Cultivating Social Resources on Social Network Sites: Facebook Relationship Maintenance Behaviors and Their Role in Social Capital Processes [OPEN ACCESS]
SPACE
TED talk – What I learned from going blind in space (Chris Hadfield)
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
Department of Business, Innovation & Skills (UK) Science & Society Blog – BBSRC – evaluating public dialogue: Synthetic Biology
TECHNOLOGY
Science, Technology, & Human Values – Constructing the East-West Boundary: The Contested Place of a Modern Imaging Technology in South Korea’s Dual Medical System [AHEAD OF PRINT]
OTHER ROUNDUPS
The Atlantic – Creepy Crushes, Fictional QBs: The Week’s Best Pop-Culture Writing
Don’t Get Caught blog – The Weekend Read
LSE Impact Blog – Impact Round-Up 22nd March: Data journalism, code as a research object, and the cure for impact factor mania.
Nieman Journalism Lab – This Week in Review: Nate Silver and data journalism’s critics, and the roots of diversity problems
Savage Minds blog – Around the Web Digest: Week of March 16
Speakers of Science blog – Reads of the Week March 21st 2014 – The big bang, blogging, the sounds of your voice and more!
The Lancet – This Week in Medicine (March 22-28, 2014)
** Last updated on 24 March 2014 **
