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Strategic Research Agenda of the EERA Joint Programme Hydropower
(Research report, 2019)The launch of a new EERA Joint Programme on Hydropower is good news for energy system in Europe and beyond. The clean energy transition is necessary, demanding and accelerating. Hydropower in Europe and worldwide represents ... -
Making researchers responsible: attributions of responsibility and ambiguous notions of culture in research codes of conduct
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Research codes of conduct offer guidance to researchers with respect to which values should be realized in research practices, how these values are to be realized, and what the respective responsibilities of ... -
Consensus or contestation: reflections on governance of innovation in a context of heterogeneous knowledges
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Governance of innovation needs to cater in a democratic way for heterogeneity of knowledges. Many initiatives in the democratisation of innovation aspire to some sort of consensus among relevant actors. However, consensus ... -
The imagined scientist of science governance
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In this article, we introduce the concept of ‘the imagined scientist’. It inverts previous discussions of the public as an imagined community with a knowledge deficit, to examine imagined scientists representing an actor ... -
"Mas, mas, mas - over hele linja"
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Assessing the Potential of Digital Collaborative Sharing Platforms in Fostering Neighbourhood Participation Through Volunteerism
(Chapter, 2019)This paper seeks to discuss whether and how digital collaborative sharing platforms can foster citizen engagement in urban neighbourhoods by addressing various challenges experienced by local initiatives. To that aim, we ... -
Opplæring av Grønn IT-ambassadører. En håndbok
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Designing and domesticating an interstructure: Exploring the practices and the politics of an elevator for cyclists
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Technologies called infrastructures are often considered to be inherently and opaquely political, but how they exert their politics has been both empirically and conceptually debated. Infrastructure studies have largely ... -
Science Communication as Emotion Work: Negotiating Curiosity and Wonder at a Science Festival
(Journal article, 2019)STS scholarship has long emphasised that science is emotional as well as cognitive and social. A 2014 science festival, Science in the City, held in Copenhagen, provides a case for thick description of emotion within the ... -
Epistemic Living Spaces, International Mobility, and Local Variation in Scientific Practice
(Journal article, 2019)This article explores local variations in scientific practice through the lens of scientists’ international mobility. Its aim is twofold: to explore how the notion of epistemic living spaces may be mobilised as a tool for ... -
The role of competences, engagement, and devices in configuring the impact of prices in energy demand response: Findings from three smart energy pilots with households
(Journal article, 2019)The paper discusses the dynamics behind price-based incentives in demand response programmes promoting time shifting of energy consumption in households. Through a comparative analysis of smart energy pilots in Norway, ... -
Creating Human Life Itself. The Emerging Meanings of Reproductive Cells among Science, State and Religion
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)Abstract: In the past decades, reproductive biomedicine has quickly developed and become widespread, producing a number of new options that have challenged the definition of kinship and parenthood, bodies and gender relations ... -
Exoskeletons for all: The interplay between exoskeletons, inclusion, gender and intersectionality
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In this article, we investigate the relation between gender and exoskeleton development through the lens of intersectionality theory. Exoskeleton users come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and genders. However, it is ... -
Children’s perceptions of social robots: a study of the robots Pepper, AV1 and Tessa at Norwegian research fairs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article studies perceptual differences of three social robots by elementary school children of ages 6–13 years (n = 107) at research fairs. The autonomous humanoid robot Pepper, an advanced social robot primarily ... -
Promise of the obsolete: expectations for and experiments with self-driving vehicles in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article explores the expectations associated with self-driving vehicles and the role of public trials in testing and upscaling this technology. Using a two-pronged empirical approach, we first analyze public responses ... -
"Best before, often good after": Re-scripting the date label of food in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In 2018, several Norwegian food producers added a new phrase to date labels of packaged foods: best before (date), often good after. Why and how did they do this? By using two concepts from Actor-Network Theory, translation ... -
Conserving Wolves by Transforming Them? The Transformative Effects of Technologies of Government in Biodiversity Conservation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article investigates the construction of instruments and techniques employed in the management of Norwegian wolves since the early 1980s by construing the tools as technologies of government. The proliferation of such ... -
Liminal technologies: Exploring the temporalities and struggles in efforts to develop a Belgrade metro
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The sociology of technology needs more nuanced conceptualizations of the temporal aspects of sociotechnical change. In this article, we propose liminality as a useful analytical entry-point to study technologies that ... -
Mecha-Media: How Are Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots Presented and Received Through the Media?
(Chapter, 2017)How are robots, androids and cyborgs presented and received in the media? This chapter applies a social media analysis to this question by using empirical research on news stories that feature robotic technologies to see ...
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