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The Parliament of Things and the Anthropocene: How to Listen to ‘Quasi-Objects’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Among the contemporary philosophers using the concept of the Anthropocene, Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers are prominent examples. The way they use this concept, however, diverts from the most common understanding of the Anthropocene.
Simons, Massimiliano
core   +2 more sources

Tinkering with symptoms, causes and solutions: Tracing the enactments of multiple chronic illnesses in specialised outpatient check-ups.

open access: yesSociology of Health and Illness, 2023
People living with multiple chronic illnesses and an increasing need for acute care is a global health challenge, which questions the conventional ways of managing illness.
A. Skovgaard   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Review of the Social Construction of Technology Approach: Do Society Constructs Technology? [PDF]

open access: yesسیاست نامه علم و فناوری, 2019
However “The Social Construction of Technology (SCOT)” is the title of an approach in the domain of Science and Technology Studies (STS), it has an important effect on the philosophy of technology. This approach that insists on the role of society in the
Mohamad Amin Shafikhani , Mostafa Taqavi
doaj  

Mai 68 et la sociologie des sciences

open access: yesRevue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines, 2015
This article, based upon discourse analysis, shows how May 68 translated in the field of science and technology studies. The study of journals dedicated to science/society relationship in the 1970s and in the early 1980s sheds light upon two discursive ...
Mathieu Quet
doaj   +1 more source

(Post)constructivism on Technoscience [PDF]

open access: yesAvant, 2013
The main aims of the article are as follows: (1) to indicate that cognition (in particular the conditions of effectiveness in laboratory practices) may be satisfactorily modelled from a (properly determined) constructivist perspective; (2) to reconstruct
Ewa Bińczyk
doaj   +1 more source

User perception and influencing factors of technology in everyday life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
An increasing amount of research is being developed in the area where technology and humans meet. The success or failure of technologies and the question whether technology helps humans to fulfill their goals or whether it hinders them is in most cases ...
Mesquita, Anabela
core   +1 more source

Data driven or data informed? How general practitioners use data to evaluate their own and colleagues' clinical work in clusters.

open access: yesSociology of Health and Illness, 2023
In contemporary policy discourses, data are presented as key assets for improving health-care quality: policymakers want health care to become 'data driven'. In this article, we focus on a particular example of this ambition, namely a new Danish national
C. Haase   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Modeling Twitter acceptance and use under the risk of antisocial behavior [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The problem of online antisocial behavior is increasingly attracting public attention and is compromising the quality of online communities. Previous research on online hostility looked at different aspects of the problem such as its definition ...
Almuhanna, Nora   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Practising care in a pandemic: Accounting for everyday life during COVID-19 among people who inject drugs.

open access: yesSociology of Health and Illness, 2023
From the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, fears have been raised worldwide regarding the unique challenges facing socially marginalised people such as those who inject drugs.
J. Rance   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Role of Chemistry Across Disciplines From Humanities to Life Sciences in Understanding Complexity and Emergence

open access: yesAngewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
This study explores the origins of life by linking prebiotic chemistry, the emergence of information‐carrying molecules such as RNA and proteins, and philosophical questions about consciousness. The study emphasizes the role of molecular evolution in the Central Dogma and provides insights into the chemical origins of biology and the basis of life's ...
Harald Schwalbe   +5 more
wiley   +2 more sources

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