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We are happy that the new volume of the EASST Review is out. 43/2 baby! Hugs to everyone involved and the fellow editorial team members.
This is a conference issue discussing all #sts things that happened at #EASST4S2024. Plus, the winning pieces of the creative writing competition are included. https://easst.net/easst-review/43-2/
A gift at the end of a very long day. Here it is, in all its glory: the open access version of my book on network cultures is now available thanks to MIT Press.
👉 https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12547.001.0001
#oa #media #history #network #AOIR2024 #EASST4S #EASST4S2024
Many thanks again to Apolline Taillandier, @sjvanders and Neil Stephens for organizing a panel on #philanthropy #technoscience and #transformation in Amsterdam: #easst4s2024
The topics may not seem to be intended for each other, but they fit together really well, as the discussions showed!
It was interesting to hang out at @easst last week and learn from folks in the #STS space. The kids loved the vouchers too (their own money).
I presented some results from our work on people interacting with LLMs. Besides Welby and Suchman, which I shared before, the interactions made me think of Garfinkel's Studies in Ethnomethodology, and especially his random-yes-no-answers experiment
We're uncannily good at finding sense in nonsense, and instruction-tuning boosts it
STS scholars on their way home from #EASST4S2024 witnessing the infrastructural Microsoft breakdown at the airports all be like ”take fieldnotes!!!”
New protest on the #Amsterdam campus, entries blocked, so I'm again referring to our editorial. #easst4s #easst4s2024
https://social.tchncs.de/@stefanlaser/112790762979245984
Of related interest for all the data, media, infrastructures, publics, and history people at #EASST4S2024: Please consider contributing to next year's THE DATAFIED WEB at Siegen University. Our call for contributions is open until October 15: https://easychair.org/cfp/RESAW2025. Boosts are highly welcome.
#easst4s #resaw25 #mediaofcoop #c2dh #mediastudies #webarchive
Was trying to see if #easst4s2024 had some advice on reporting COVID.
But the only thing I was able to find was this: «In short: there are no strict regulations and it is not necessary to test. You should of course not feel shy either to wear a mask when you have symptoms[…]»
Which reads a whole lot like “if you wanted to, you could show up with symptoms and all and not even mask up” 🫠🫠
Hey #easst4s2024 @easst crowd. I fear yesterday was unexpectedly my last day at the conference, due to testing positive for COVID this morning.
If you’re feeling not 100%, you might also want to get a couple of tests, which luckily are quite cheaply available in pharmacies in the Netherlands.
Good night, #easst4s2024, #photography vibes
can't go wrong with Suchman
"As soon as computational artifacts demonstrate some evidence of recognizably human abilities, we are inclined to endow them with the rest."
(in Human-Machine Reconfigurations, 2007)
#easst4s #easst4s24 #easst4s2024
Tomorrow, 11:00, HG 05A24!
(also one of our coauthors on Beyond Single-Mindedness https://markdingemanse.net/beyond/ )
What a beautiful #EASST4S2024 party! Having all invited to the fun definitely solves the entanglement problem that your peers only book the dinner when you don't abd vice versa.
What a funky program, wonderful food selection, music, drinks. Networking and celebrating your work has never been better. And it feels even better with being open end!
My extended compliments to the organizers of more than a buzzily tuned conference. Cheers!
Protip for @easst organisers and #easst4s2024 folks: with a conference that happens only once every four years and that has a low-traffic acronym like #EASST4S, there is no need to have year-specific hashtags. Predictable confusion & fractured convos could be prevented by keeping to a single, clear, maximally short hashtag like #easst4s — variants like #easst4s24 and #easst4s2024 just add extra ballast
I know it's day 4 so maybe this comes in handy in 2028 🤣
It was really lovely to listen to Annemarie Mol’s and Geoffrey Bowker’s talks when receiving the Bernal prize today.
#EASST4S2024
#EASST is a gift that keeps on giving!
Shedding tears at #EASST4S2024 at the most beautiful, heartbreaking celebration of Adele Clarke's life - just after remembering Susan Leigh Star in Bowker's keyword giving Bernal lecture on growing and dying infrastructures. I am deeply touched and inspired by the emotional bound and community within STS. I can only wish to be/come a part of this.
Weizenbaum meets @easst #easst4s2024! On Tuesday, @Rainer_Rehak and Paola Lopez presented alternative narratives on #AI including its limits, as opposed to current stories of agency and objectivity.
Listening to Inca Ulnicane talking about technological fixes and governance of AI. What should technology do? Compelling!
At the same time my Amazon App asked me if I was interested in their 'Selection of Plattenrollen' (impossible to translate).
Funny. Broken.
And a cute bridge to Fabian Anicker's presentation on the ideological function of AI.
Join our panel on Planetary Data Infrastructure right now at #easst4s2024. A two session ride. 👇HG-KC07
We have academic paper presentations and experimental formats such as material hands-on server experiences, and virtual reality applications. It will be a fun gathering. #sts
#SFBonTour
Stefan Laser and Estrid Sørensen from TP A02 Virtual Information Infrastructures of the CRC 1567 together with Nancy Mauro-Flude (RMIT) and Steven Jackson (Cornell University) are hosting the panel “Planetary data Infrastructures” at #easst4s2024 today.
expect some critical AI studies avant la lettre in my #easst4s presentation coming Friday (panel 296 in HG05A24)
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14375
Also a huge thank you to everyone who provided inspiring remarks or lovely, encouraging feedback about my presentation today. It really made my day.
So, good night, and don't forget to social innovate yourself!
See y'all tomorrow!
Lucy van Eck from Erasmus University told the fairy tale of the Public Sector's Knew Knowledge. A kind of emperor new cloth spin off.
Amazing and a highlight for me at the innovation discontinuity panel. It reminded me of Barthes Mythology and the many reflexive loops you can jump through with these things.
The emperor new cloth thing is rather popular. Or at least I know that this has also been used to critizise unquestioned assumptions, like Hollnagel did about human error... Psychology, are you reading this?
However, it may be tough to use such a description template, given the moral of the story. But remember, it is a modern habit to give all fairy tales moral messages. They use to be very cold descriotions if society. No happy end, no punishnent of the evil. Just harsh reports and sometimes weird escalations (talking about you, Leberwurst and Blutwurst).
#SFBonTour
Fabian Pittroff, Mace Ojala and Leman Çelik from CRC 1567 are about to start the panel “Transforming data practices in the humanities: virtual research environments revisited” at #easst4s2024.
Awesome audience. This morning at #easst4s2024, I discussed our upcoming book (series) on “Predictions” (Mattering Press, w/ Mél Hogan and Edward Ongweso Jr).
We’re inviting #sts authors to experiment with the format of predictions. A troubling format. But it offers room to imagine and intervene. To show up differently. To learn from sf.
It requires careful editing though, so the comments about where and how to be critical were essential. Attentive folks
Can we reassemble actor-network theory in a new way to create a transformative ANT? Let's talk actor-network theory at #EASST4S!
Feel free to join us this Friday in Amsterdam.
Location: NU-5A47
Sessions: Friday 19 July, 14:00-15:30
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14192
Scale and anti-scale.
Today, I enjoyed listening to a three session panel on the #cloud, and a lovely stacked discussion about science, technology and policy work. Inspiring people have come to Amsterdam, and the infrastructure is a bliss.
And now, dinner may commence
Hello Amsterdam! 🇳🇱 Join our presentation ✨ "On to new limits! Purpose limitation for AI models as a novel paradigm in AI regulation" ✨ at #EASST4S2024. Starting 16:00 in room HG09A24. @HannahRuschemeier
https://rainermuehlhoff.de/en/EASST4S-Amsterdam/
I am indulging myself with wonderful, sophisticated pragmatism and social theory arguments @ "world-making and pragmatism". I am in methodology heaven.
You could not wish for more Dewey and Mead, critical thoughts on sociotechbical imaginaries (more relational imagination less institution corroboration), situating, orders and minding your own worldmaking role in knowledge production.
One for @sts re #STS #WeDoSTS critical and reflexive analyses of the institutionalised processes and their effects within our field - power abuse, #MeTooSTS and debate at #easst4s24 #easst24 #4s2024 #EASST4S2024
Check the new EASST Review published just in time for the big #sts conference. Our editorial is quite a political one.
https://easst.net/easst-review/43-1/
Indeed, it’s time for #easst4s2024! On my way to the registration in Amsterdam, filled with memories of an Utrecht book/zine store.
For #newcomers to #EASST #4S conferencing or feeling stressed about your presentation - I can recommend with my whole heart the coaching sessions by #CatelijneCoopmans - cf. https://www.easst4s2024.net/presentingandconnecting/
Sessions take place via Zoom on:
Monday 15 July 17:00 – 18:00 – duration: 1 hour
Tuesday 16 July 7:30 – 8:00 – duration: 30 minutes
Wednesday 17 July 7-30 – 8:00 – duration: 30 minutes
@easst @4Sweb @sts @stsing re #easst4s #easst4s24 #easst4s2024 at #Amsterdam
@stsing @easst Yes, there will be a panel at #EASST4S2024 with it's own merch 😀 More importantly though, it concerns all of us & the way we want to work together. Wednesday from 16-17:30, we will discuss on how to transform STS via #WeDoSTS. Stickers are available exclusively off campus, bigger bulks available for anyone who wants to distribute them at their home institutions. Respond here, find me there, ask someone who knows someone. You & the sticker(s) will find each other! #WeDoSTS @easst
On route to #easst4s2024
#easst4s24 and will arrive in Amsterdam this afternoon. If any @sts folks are around for a coffee, let me know. ☕️
And there are hosted panels:
Panel 345 "Calculating Migration" by Silvan Pollozek and others, Wednesday 09.30 - 12.30
Panel 300 "Infrastructure, crises and transformation", Wednesday 08.30 - 12.00
Panel 280 "Contingencies of value-driven design in public service digitization" by Maryam Tatari and @benelang, Wednesday 15.30 - 17.
Silvan Pollozek presents together with Nina Amelung on AI and civil society contestation in Panel 220 "Technologies of the other" on Friday, 10.30.
Paul Trauttmansdorff is going to present on the justification of calculation through different regines of worth in Panel 345 "Calculating Migration", Wednesday 11.00
Maryam Tatari presenting on Covid-19 and empirical, digital research in Panel 188 "Caring for digital field work" on Tuesday, 14.00.
We are going #EASST4S2024
Meet us, among other, here:
@PeterKahlert presenting in Panel 001 "Innovation Discontinuities" about Social Innovation and social cricitm on Wednesday, 15.30 & for Suzette Kahlert in Panel 167 "World-making and pragmatism" about making mess with methods on Tuesday, 13.30.
@benelang presenting on smart city discourse in the context of Germany's "öffentliche Daseinsvorsorge" concept in Panel 023, Thursday 09:00.