... interest, natures of interests themselves, histories and uses of civic epistemologies and not only their forms, contingencies of particular understandings of the politics of science and technology, ... director of the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh, co-founding editor of Social Studies of Science, and President of the Society for Social Studies of Science Above and beyond ... aspects of human endeavor—truth and power and justice and equity and democracy and asks how these can be conserved and consolidated in modern society, so that the immense possibilities of scientific...
... Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences @ the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts andSciences (Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) Wouters, P (2005) The Virtual ... Comparable use of the Internet as both a source of new data and a new source of old types of data has been reported in virtually all fields of the social sciences, information science, and the newly ... center of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, based in Amsterdam This chapter was written by Paul Wouters, Katie Vann, Andrea Scharnhorst, Matt Ratto, Iina Hellsten, Jenny Fry, and...
... The use of technological objects may change the form and practical and symbolic functions of artifacts, and it may enable or constrain performances of identities and negotiations of status and social ... concept of co-production would also imply, forms of knowledge and understanding are contextually generated and simultaneously embody understandings of both the natural and social worlds In this, of ... building the quality and character of lives, the distribution of benefits and burdens, what people can and can’t do, the risks of everyday life, and so on Even if we think of engineers as attending...
... One of the most influential recent strands of argument in the field of the social studies of the life sciences concerns ideas of biosociality (Rabinow, 1996a) and biological 828 Adam M Hedgecoe and ... the practices and procedures associated with them Yet there are conceptualizations of users, of the nature of illness and susceptibility, andof the relations among technologies and the body that ... patient’s descriptions of discomfort and mobility needs and the practitioner’s analysis of gait and the biomechanics of the adapted device, tacit knowledge and a mutual reading of body signs work...
... Journal of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 1, Issue 6, 2010, pp.1009-1016 1011 Kwame Nkrumah University of science and technology (KNUST) generates a colossal amount of waste (solid and liquid) ... estimation of the biogas potential of the sludge the quality of the sludge was analysed and the results is presented below in Table The average litre of biogas produced from a kg of TVS found ... and policy, and CDM proposal development He is also an associate of The Energy Centre, KNUST and a founding member of a not-for-profit organization; Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainable...