A multi-disciplinary gathering place for scholars working on the analysis of science and technology
Marianne Groep-Foncke deposited Water’s worth. Urban society and subsidiarity in seventeenth-century Holland in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days ago
By taking water as a viewpoint, this dissertation reveals that the urban communities of seventeenth-century Holland were highly subsidiary in nature. Individual townspeople, men and women alike, knew how to fend for themselves, incidentally having recourse to other inhabitants, businessmen, corporations or magistrates. Together, they constituted a…[Read more]
Michael Lyons deposited Excavating ‘Excavating AI’: The Elephant in the Gallery in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Two art exhibitions, “Training Humans” and “Making Faces,” and the accompanying essay “Excavating AI: The politics of images in machine learning training sets” by Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen, are making substantial impact on discourse taking place in the social and mass media networks, and some scholarly circles. Critical scrutiny reveals,…[Read more]
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited WOMEN AND BIOMEDICAL HEALTHCARE IN A COMMUNITY IN GHANA in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The contribution of women to the development of societies and medicine around the world cannot be overstated. Their contribution to medicine is great; this is seen, in particular, in their role among other physicians, obstetricians, nurses, herbalists, and assistant physicians. Despite the significant contribution of women to medicine and health…[Read more]
Mateus Yuri Passos deposited The Chudnovsky Case: How Literary Journalism Can Open the “Black Box” of Science in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Literary journalism offers an important way for explaining the complexity of the scientific world to a lay audience. An analysis of two of Richard Preston’s pieces published by The New Yorker, “The Mountains of Pi” and “Capturing the Unicorn” and how they give emphasize science-in-the-making.
Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad’s Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]
Rob Hunt deposited 1,000 Days to First Light: Construction of the Perth-Lowell Telescope Facility, 1968-71 in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
NASA’s Viking probes were launched in 1975. Six years earlier an International Planetary Patrol Network of telescopes was set up to observe Martian surface conditions. Sites were chosen to provide continuous observing, and were located in Hawaii, eastern Australia, India, South Africa, Chile, and central USA. Negotiations for a facility to be s…[Read more]
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited National Health Insurance and Free Maternal Healthcare in Ghana: Responses from Women and Health Workers in Akropong in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week ago
The government of Ghana from the 1990s has tried a lot of policies to finance healthcare in Ghana. Different policies were introduced by different governments until 2003 when President John Agyekum Kuffour introduced the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The study was carried out to find out the impact of NHIS on maternal healthcare at the…[Read more]
Timothy W. Elfenbein deposited “Putting the Papers Online”: Recognizing Labor on Documents in Scholarly Publishing in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
In this presentation, I investigate claims that publishers add little value to scholarly communication by asking about those parts of publishing overlooked when the focus is exclusively on content. Evaluating a study by Martin Klein, Peter Broadwell, Sharon Farb, and Todd Grappone, I not only point to problems with its assumptions about value,…[Read more]
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Indigenous Medicine and Traditional Healing in Africa: a Systematic Synthesis of the Literature in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Literature on traditional medicine in Africa is diverse and broad but most are country based, regional based or time based. There is the need for a systematic review that focuses on the nature of traditional medicine and its healers, the impact of the changing society on traditional medicine, and an analysis of same based on scholarly literature.…[Read more]
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited An evolutionary study of production of electricity in Ghana (1900 – 1960) in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
The literature on the history of electricity production have studied the evolution of electricity in both developed and developing countries and its impact on their economies. Some have laid foundations upon which other works are carried out. A close examination of historiography and multidisciplinary research on electricity production in Ghana…[Read more]
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi edited the post COVID 19, the way forward for African Countries in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS): on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week ago
CONCERNING COVID 19, the major test for African countries is whether non-pharmaceutical care will do the trick or a strict adherence of both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical strategy shall suffice. I argue that, due to limited infrastructure; non-pharmaceutical strategies like quarantine, social distancing, lock-downs and observance of…[Read more]
Flavia De Nicola deposited Spectral database of Renaissance fresco pigments by LIBS, LIF and colorimetry in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
A set of about 70 fresco samples made with pigments and binders typical of the Renaissance period in Rome has been characterized by LIBS, LIF and colorimetric measurements in order to build an as much as possible complete database. Aiming at providing the restorers and art historians with a useful tool for the study of ancient frescoes, the…[Read more]
Flavia De Nicola deposited LIBS and LIF for the characterization of artistic marbles and Renaissance frescos in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
In this work, Carrara marbles, both white and grey, from cave, and fresco laboratory samples have been studied by means of LIF (Laser Induced Fluorescence) and LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy). Fresco samples have been prepared in agreement with Renaissance recipes using natural pigments and original materials both for binders and…[Read more]
Jonathan Basile deposited Kant’s Parasite: Sublime Biodeconstruction in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
In Kant’s Critique of Judgment, his exploration of how something like life (organized matter) can appear to the faculties of a finite consciousness makes life as possible as it is impossible. A passing reference Kant makes to the idea that every organ of an organism can be seen as a parasite is taken as a lever to deconstruct his notion of…[Read more]
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Public Health in Colonial and Post-Colonial Ghana: Lesson-Drawing for the Twenty-First Century in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
Public health in twenty-first century Ghana is mired with several issues ranging from the inadequacy of
public health facilities, improper settlement planning, insanitary conditions, and the inadequacy of laws
and their implementation. This situation compared to the colonial era is a direct contradiction.
Development in the pre-colonial era to…[Read more]Jonathan Basile deposited Massa por Argamassa: A Biblioteca de Babel e o Sonho da Totalidade in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
Massa por Argamassa apresenta uma exploração profunda de um dos maiores ilusionistas da literatura, Jorge Luis Borges. Seu conto “A Biblioteca de Babel” é um exemplar ilustre de sua capacidade lúdica, embora não somente devido ao mundo invertido que nele é imaginado, no qual uma biblioteca, que supostamente contém todas as combinações possíveis de…[Read more]
Kenji Khozoei deposited Decolonising the Commons: Fugitivity and Future Planning in End Times in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
They say the global proliferation of colonial and neoliberal (ir)rationalities and the techno-managerial enclosure of the ‘commons’ (Hardt & Negri 2000; Harvey 2004) has resulted in a ‘foreclosure of politics’, prompting calls for a renewed technocultural hegemony for a post-capitalist future (Srnicek & Williams 2015) or a return to the revolut…[Read more]
Jonathan Basile deposited How the Other Half-Lives: Life as Identity and Difference in Bennett and Schrödinger in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
This essay deconstructs Jane Bennett’s and Erwin Schrödinger’s theories of life to demonstrate the untenability of defining life on the basis of either identity (relation to self) or difference (relation to other). Because the living thing is undecidably self and other, its traditional bond to the self-relation of teleology is untenable. Yet reli…[Read more]
Valeria Graziano deposited Cure Ribelli. Tecnologie aperte per una cura come bene comune. in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Cure Ribelli è una pubblicazione che nasce dalle attività di ricerca e disseminazione svolte da WeMake nell’ambito del progetto Digital Social Innovation for Europe, un programma supportato dalla Commissione Europea che punta a rafforzare la rete di organizzazioni che propongono l’utilizzo delle tecnologie con una prospettiva mirata all’i…[Read more]
Valeria Graziano deposited Rebelling with Care Exploring open technologies for commoning healthcare in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
The publication Rebelling with Care is the result of the research and dissemination activities carried out by WeMake within the framework of DSI for Europe, a project supported by the European Commission to reinforce the network of organizations using technologies to make a positive impact on society. The DSI paradigm revolves around key concepts…[Read more]
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