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Configuring Dementia: How Nursing Students are Taught to Mediate the Socio-political Role of Gerontechnologies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper contributes to the discussion on the materiality of age and ageing in this special issue by presenting a case that illustrates how nursing students are trained to shape gerontechnologies in ways that have ... -
Conflicted transitions: Exploring the actors, tactics, and outcomes of social opposition against energy infrastructure
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Conserving Wolves by Transforming Them? The Transformative Effects of Technologies of Government in Biodiversity Conservation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)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 ... -
The Constitutive Practices of Public Smartphone Use
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The smartphone has become the most ubiquitous piece of personal technology, giving it significant social importance and sociological relevance. In this article, we explore how the smartphone interacts with and impacts ... -
Constructing the Norwegian smart grids: To fix what is not broken?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)The first step towards the so called smart grid is currently in undertaking by most industrial countries, represented as the development and implementation of the smart meter. The smart meter will digitalize our relationship ... -
Consumer, client or citizen? How Norwegian local governments domesticate website technology and configure their users
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Local governments' websites are important gateways for residents wishing to interact with public institutions online, and the establishment and development of such websites stand out among governmental initiatives to improve ... -
Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The widely discussed transition to a circular economy (CE) combines a large number of approaches that imply varying degrees of change and affect institutions and actor groups. Despite this variety, the basic premise of CE ... -
Contemporary Fairy Tales: Narrating Women Academics Through Metaphors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article contributes to the feminist literature that explores the vast landscape of metaphors on the professional experiences and identities of women academics found in scholarly works. In their now classic studies on ... -
Contesting Consumerism with a Circular Economy?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The circular economy (CE) concept has recently entered the public discourse. A CE should contest the reproduction of a so-called linear economy. However, it is largely promoted as a normative top-down fix for business ... -
Crafting environmental policies into action: Energy consulting practices of craftspeople
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article discusses the emerging practices of craftspeople – particularly carpenters – in relation to policies of energy-efficient homes in the building sector. The Norwegian political goal of making buildings more ... -
Craftsmanship in the machine: sustainability through new roles in building craft at the technologized building site
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The building industry is becoming increasingly characterized by automated production, and in line with this, the nature of craftsmanship is transforming. In this article, we look for a sustainable path for this transformation ... -
Creating energy citizenship through material participation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Transitions towards low-carbon energy systems will be comprehensive and demanding, requiring substantial public support. One important contribution from STS is to highlight the roles of citizens and public engagement. Until ... -
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 ... -
Creating transitions to electric road transport in Norway: The role of user imaginaries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The aim of this paper is to study the role of user imaginaries in relation to electric cars and the role these imaginaries play in the ongoing transition towards electrification of the transport sector. We conducted ... -
Critical infrastructure vulnerability: a research note on adaptation to climate change in the Nordic countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This research note reviews recent literature on the vulnerability of critical infrastructures caused by climate change with a focus on the Nordic countries. We integrate literature from three research areas: the role of ... -
Curb Your Enthusiasm: On Media Communication of Bioenergy and the Role of the News Media in Technology Diffusion
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)There is widespread agreement that the mitigation of climate changes requires societies across the globe to speed up the diffusion of renewable energy technologies. This article pursues an interest in the diffusion of one ... -
Dealing with uncertainty in sustainable innovation: mainstreaming and substitution
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)In this paper, innovation is studied as a set of activities that seeks to deal with uncertainty. It is argued that the very idea of innovation contains the assumption that the future is, in principle, open to change. ... -
Democracy or war? The communication of the climate issue online
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)For years, technology optimists have hoped that the internet might serve as a vehicle for democratization. Meanwhile, many STS-scholars have called for a democratization of scientific practices through increased transparency ...