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- Dimitrievski, Ivanche, 1988-
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Accounting the Future : An Ethnography of the European Spallation Source
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The thesis investigates the social processes involved in the practices of futuring. It addresses the question of how social practices contribute to the production and maintenance of robust versions of the future. It asks how best we should study futurity, including expectations, imaginations, promises and visions. Existing research tells us rather little about how ordinary practices render the future as a particular, publicly available and accountable presence or absence. In what ways do people achieve situated performances of certainty about the future? The thesis addresses these questions by drawing upon recent theoretical themes in Science and Technology Studies (STS), notably accountability relations and mundane practices in science and technology. The empirical focus of the thesis is an extended ethnographic study of the European Spallation Source (ESS) – a major neutron-based science research facility currently under construction in Lund, Sweden. The methods used are a combination of participant observation, interviews, documentary analysis, and ethnomethodologically inflected textual analysis. The thesis reports findings in relation to each of four aspects of ESS work: 1) the textual practices rendering the future of the ESS in local newspaper coverage; 2) documentary analysis of a 2014/2015 Call for ESS Instrument Proposals; 3) observations from visits to ESS and participation in staged “future walks” and 4) the mundane laboratory practices of measuring thickness in an ESS Detector Coatings Workshop in Linköping. The results of these empirical analyses are used to argue for the importance of generating and sustaining accountability relations in futuring practices, for understanding how the future is imagined and made to come about. The thesis concludes that looking at practices in this way has political implications – among other things, it allows to see how agency and capability-to-affect the future is distributed, built, eroded and attributed.
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- Helgesson, Claes-Fredrik, 1964-, et al.
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Research note: Valuation Mishaps and the Choreography of Repair
- 2018
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Ingår i: Valuation Studies. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 2001-5992. ; 5:2, s. 145-162
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This research note proposes that it is instructive to ask what happens when evaluative practices go wrong. It shows how a close study of mistakes and mishaps in evaluation - both in the process of their disclosure and subsequent management - provides important insights into ways in which evaluation practices contribute to performing and sustaining the relations of accountability involved. The note examines two cases: 1) the mistaken award of the 2017 Oscar for Best Picture and 2) the incident in November 2016 when Thomson Reuters notified a large number of scholars that they had been awarded the distinction of being a “Highly Cited Researcher” in their field, only a few hours later to retract these awards. Studying such instances provides insights into what is at stake for participants, the choreography of performing and revealing evaluations, the ways in which different evaluation practices fold together, and the accountability structures which support valuation practices.
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Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited
- 2013
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Ingår i: Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press. - 9780262525381 ; , s. 1-14
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A new series of essays that sets the bar for the study of representation in science in the twenty-first century. Chapters span a range of topics, including molecular modelling, nano-imaging, mathematical formalisms, and digital imagery in neuroscience, planetary science, and biology - as well as business data visualisation, economics diagrams and technology-mediated surgery.
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- Schneider, Tanja, et al.
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Enacting the consuming brain : An ethnographic study of accountability redistributions in neuromarketing practices
- 2022
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Ingår i: Sociological Review. - : Sage Publications Ltd. - 0038-0261 .- 1467-954X. ; 70:5, s. 1025-1043
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The figure of the brain has continued to rise in prominence for at least 30 years. This development continues to raise important questions: in particular, to what extent and in what ways does the brain supplant the person as the presumed origin of human behaviour? Whereas it has previously been discussed in general terms, here we address this question through an ethnographic study of the experimental articulation of the brain in neuromarketing research. Drawing on analytical themes from science and technology studies, we argue that it is crucial to investigate the enactment of the brain in situated practice and to understand the effects on prevailing accountability relations. We analyse the enactment of the consuming brain in neuromarketing experiments and in experts communication of experimental results. We show how the consuming brain emerges from reconfigured sets of socio-material relations (between e.g. consumers, brains, brain scanning operators, consultants) and how this entails a redistribution of accountability relations. This results in an ontological respecification of the consumer, who is no longer deemed accountable for his/her actions. Instead spokespersons on behalf of the brain - neuromarketing technologies and experts - assume accountability for revealing why consumers buy what they buy. We conclude that the putative shift from person to brain is in fact characterised by a redistribution of accountability relations in neuromarketing practices. We call for further studies of accountability redistributions in practice, so as better to situate novel explanations of human behaviour.
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- Schneider, Tanja, et al.
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Technologies of ironic revelation : Enacting consumers in neuromarkets
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Ingår i: Consumption, markets & culture. - : Routledge. - 1025-3866 .- 1477-223X. ; 15:2, s. 169-189
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Neuroscience is increasingly considered a possible basis for new business and management practices. A prominent example of this trend is neuromarketing – a relatively new form of market and consumer research that applies neuroscience to marketing by employing brain imaging or measurement technology to anticipate consumers’ response to, for instance, products, packaging or advertising. In this paper, we draw attention to the ways in which certain neuromarketing technologies simultaneously reveal and enact a particular version of the consumer. The revelation is ironic in the sense that it entails the construction of a contrast between what appears to be the case – consumers’ accounts of why they prefer certain products over others – and what can be shown to be the case as a result of the application of the technology – the hidden or concealed truth. This contrast structure characterises much of the academic and popular literature on neuromarketing, and helps explain the distribution of accountability relations associated with assessments of its effectiveness.
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- Woolgar, Stephen William, et al.
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Globalisation in Practice
- 2014
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The concept of globalization has become ubiquitous in social science and in the public consciousness and is often invoked as an explanation for a diverse range of changes to economies, societies, politics and cultures - both as a positive liberating force and as a wholly negative one. While our understanding of the politics, economics, and social resonance of the phenomenon has become increasingly sophisticated at the macro-level, this book argues that globalization too often continues to be depicted as a set of extra-terrestrial forces with no real physical manifestation, except as effects.
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- Woolgar, Stephen William, et al.
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Mundane Governance : Ontology and Accountability
- 2013
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The book aims to explore how governance and accountability are mediated through material relations involving ordinary everyday objects and technologies. It draws on empirical materials in three main areas: waste management and recycling; the regulation and control of traffic; and security and passenger movement in airports
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- Woolgar, Stephen William
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Ontological child consumption
- 2012
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Ingår i: Situating Child Consumption. - Lund : Nordic Academic Press. - 9789185509706 ; , s. 33-51
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Woolgar, Stephen William, et al.
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Preface
- 2013
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Ingår i: Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press. - 9780262525381 ; , s. 366-
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A new series of essays that sets the bar for the study of representation in science in the twenty-first century. Chapters span a range of topics, including molecular modelling, nano-imaging, mathematical formalisms, and digital imagery in neuroscience, planetary science, and biology - as well as business data visualisation, economics diagrams and technology-mediated surgery.
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