Blar i Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier på tidsskrift "Science & Technology Studies"
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Back to the Present of Automated Mobility: A Typology of Everyday Use of Driving Assistance Systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article focuses on how car drivers domesticate technologies of automation and the way this might inform our understanding of potential shifts to a more automated mobility system. The current literature on automated ... -
From 'alternative' to 'advanced': Mainstreaming of sustainable technologies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This paper revisits some technologies that, in the 1970s, were considered as ‘low-tech’ alternatives to mainstream versions, but more recently have been developed using high-tech elements. This change from alternative to ... -
Gender Segregation in the Borderlands of E-Science
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article draws on an ethnographic study of an e-science platform in Sweden to analyse how horizontal gender segregation across sciences plays out in e-science, a borderland in which sciences converge around state-of-the ... -
Keeping Systems at Work: Electricity Infrastructure from Control Rooms to Household Practices
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article discusses the reliability of electricity supply and the management of its uncertainties from a systems theoretical point of view. We begin by outlining recent Science and Technology Studies (STS) literature ... -
The Physiology of Imagined Publics : From a Deficit to an Ambivalence Model
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)This paper draws on the concept of imagined lay persons (ILP) to investigate how scientists working in the fields of bio- and nanotechnology perceive the public and how these imaginaries facilitate or hinder engagement ... -
Steered or Guided by Numbers? How Climate and Energy Policymakers Domesticate Quantitative Information
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Concepts like 'the metric society' and 'the tyranny of metrics' suggest that quantitative information increasingly shapes and steers policy and governance. This paper engages critically with such assumptions by using ... -
Testing Emergent Technologies in the Arctic: How Attention to Place Contributes to Visions of Autonomous Vehicles
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)There are great expectations around the future of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Such visions often picture vehicles that work everywhere without human interference. In this article we use empirical data from a pilot project ... -
The Shaping of Urban Public Transport: Two Cases of Alternative Leading Objects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper investigates the shaping of urban public transport by comparing ‘alternative leading objects’ to the car in the Norwegian cities Trondheim and Bergen. These have chosen different transport technologies, bus and ...