Sumitran Basu’s “Three Decades of Social Construction of Technology: Dynamic Yet Fuzzy? The Methodological Conundrum” (2022) provides insightful comments and builds a solid cornerstone for us to review and reflect on the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT). It is an… Read More ›
Like Florian Jaton (2022, 2021), I don’t have a lot of time for experiences that can’t be scrapped for parts and exchanged for healthcare benefits and other requisites to bare life. The book is as battered as he imagines, and… Read More ›
Ironically, as an academician, there are countless reasons why I don’t successfully engage in academic book reading. Undergraduate classes to prepare and teach, field notebooks to transcribe in NVivo software, languishing joint publication projects, obscure workshops, and, in my case… Read More ›
Florian Jaton’s The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating takes up a simple question: where do algorithms come from? Although a great deal of sociotechnical research implies problems of this kind, they are rarely posed so directly. There may be… Read More ›
Author Information: Eric Kerr, National University of Singapore, eric.kerr@nus.edu.sg. Kerr, Eric. “On Thinking With Catastrophic Times.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 1 (2019): 46-49. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-45Q Reprinted with permission from… Read More ›
Author Information: Jeff Kochan, University of Konstanz, jwkochan@gmail.com. Kochan, Jeff. “Disassembling the System: A Reply to Paolo Palladino and Adam Riggio.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 12 (2018): 29-38. The pdf of the article gives specific page references…. Read More ›
Author Information: Joshua Earle, Virginia Tech, jearle@vt.edu. Earle, Joshua. “Deleting the Instrument Clause: Technology as Praxis.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 10 (2018): 59-62. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-42r Damien Williams, in his review… Read More ›
Author Information: Raphael Sassower, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, rsasswe@uccs.edu. Sassower, Raphael. “Post-Truths and Inconvenient Facts.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 8 (2018): 47-60. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-40g If nothing else, Steve… Read More ›
Author Information: Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson, Humber College, alci.malapi@outlook.com Malapi-Nelson, Alcibiades. “On a Study of Steve Fuller.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 7 (2018): 25-29. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3Za Francis Remedios and Val Dusek… Read More ›
Author Information: Gabriel Vélez-Cuartas, Universidad de Antioquia, gjaime.velez@udea.edu.co Vélez-Cuartas, Gabriel. “Invisible Colleges 2.0: Eponymy as a Scientometric Tool.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 3 (2018): 5-8. Please refer to: Francisco Collazo-Reyes, Hugo García-Compeán, Miguel Ángel Pérez-Angón & Jane… Read More ›