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The Conjoined Spectacles of the “Smart Super Bowl” “智能超级碗”的连环赛

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Engaging Science Technology and Society Pub Date : 2020-06-26 DOI: 10.17351/ests2020.295

R. Shelby, Sarah Barnes, Nassim Parvin, M. Mcdonald

引用次数: 2

Engaging Theatre, Activating Publics: Theory and Practice of a Performance on Darwin 参与戏剧，激活公众：达尔文表演的理论与实践

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Engaging Science Technology and Society Pub Date : 2020-06-20 DOI: 10.17351/ests2020.403

Saul Halfon, Cora Olson, Ann Kilkelly, Jane Lehr

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引用次数: 5

On Half-Built Assemblages: Waiting for a Data Center in Prineville, Oregon 关于半成品组装：等待俄勒冈州普里尼维尔的数据中心

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Engaging Science Technology and Society Pub Date : 2020-06-20 DOI: 10.17351/ests2020.447

J. Burrell

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引用次数: 14

Scaling Techno-Optimistic Visions 扩展技术乐观愿景

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Engaging Science Technology and Society Pub Date : 2020-05-28 DOI: 10.17351/ests2020.283

Seyram Avle, C. Lin, Jean Hardy, S. Lindtner

引用次数: 11

The Myths and Moral Economies of Digital ID and Mobile Money in India and Myanmar 印度和缅甸数字身份和移动货币的神话和道德经济

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Engaging Science Technology and Society Pub Date : 2020-05-28 DOI: 10.17351/ests2020.276

Janaki Srinivasan, Elisa Oreglia

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引用次数: 4

Keep Diversity––Make Standards! Spaces of Standardization for Diversity Analyzed through Cattle Breeding Industry 保持多样性–制定标准！从养牛业分析多样性的标准化空间

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Engaging Science Technology and Society Pub Date : 2020-04-02 DOI: 10.17351/ests2020.287

Lidia Chavinskaia, A. Loconto

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引用次数: 2

Regimes of Patienthood: Developing an Intersectional Concept to Theorize Illness Experiences 病人的制度:发展一个交叉的概念来理论化疾病经验

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Engaging Science Technology and Society Pub Date : 2020-03-14 DOI: 10.17351/ests2020.389

Kelly Joyce, J. James, M. Jeske

引用次数: 6

The Blank Slate E-State: Estonian Information Society and the Politics of Novelty in the 1990s 空白的电子国家:爱沙尼亚的信息社会和20世纪90年代的新奇政治

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Engaging Science Technology and Society Pub Date : 2020-03-14 DOI: 10.17351/ests2020.284

Aro Velmet

引用次数: 5

When Mental Walls Lead to Physical Walls: The US-Mexico Border Wall, Art, and Public Conversations about the Social Responsibility of Engineering 当精神墙导致物理墙:美墨边境墙，艺术，以及关于工程社会责任的公众对话

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Engaging Science Technology and Society Pub Date : 2020-03-10 DOI: 10.17351/ests2020.379

M. Macias, Peter Pohorily, Jorge Morales Guerrero, D. Karwat

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Sticks, Stones, and the Secular Bones of Indian Democracy 棍子、石头和印度民主的世俗骨头

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Engaging Science Technology and Society Pub Date : 2020-03-10 DOI: 10.17351/ests2020.393

M. B. Haines, S. Sarkar

引用次数: 2