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The Big Techification of Everything 万物的大技术化

IF 2.6 3区哲学

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2021-10-13 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2021.1984423

Reijer P Hendrikse, Ilke Adriaans, Tobias J. Klinge, Rodrigo Fernandez

引用次数: 18

Amazon’s Ring: Surveillance as a Slippery Slope Service 亚马逊的指环:监控是一种滑坡服务

IF 2.6 3区哲学

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2021.1983797

Evan Selinger, Darrin Durant

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引用次数: 7

Bioprinting as a Sociotechnical Project: Imaginaries, Promises and Futures 生物打印作为一个社会技术项目：想象、承诺和未来

IF 2.6 3区哲学

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2021-09-17 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2021.1977264

C. Lafontaine, M. Wolfe, J. Gagné, E. Abergel

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引用次数: 3

Germ Growers in the Colonial Laboratory 殖民实验室的细菌种植者

IF 2.6 3区哲学

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2021-08-28 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2021.1970128

D. Crouch

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The Board Game Pandemic: Cooperative Sociotechnical Imaginaries Obscuring Power Relations 桌游大流行:合作的社会技术想象掩盖了权力关系

IF 2.6 3区哲学

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2021-08-18 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2021.1965111

Larry Au

引用次数: 3

The (Possible) Future of Cyborg Healthcare: Depictions of Disability in Cyberpunk 2077 电子人医疗保健(可能的)未来:《赛博朋克2077》中对残疾的描述

IF 2.6 3区哲学

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2021-08-17 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2021.1956888

A. Fox

引用次数: 4

Aging in a Technoscientific World: Postphenomenology versus critical phenomenology Medical Technics 技术科学世界中的老龄化:后现象学与批判现象学

IF 2.6 3区哲学

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2021-07-31 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2021.1956889

M. Charette

引用次数: 0

Centers, Peripheries and Subordination. A View on Latin American Science 中心、外围和从属。拉丁美洲科学观

IF 2.6 3区哲学

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2021-07-21 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2021.1954153

Federico Vasen

引用次数: 0

Island Imaginaries: Introduction to a Special Section 海岛幻想:专题导论

IF 2.6 3区哲学

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2021-06-15 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2021.1939294

M. Gugganig, Nina Klimburg-Witjes

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引用次数: 7

Monstrous Motherhood – Women on the Edge of Reproductive Age 怪异的母性——处于生育年龄边缘的女性

IF 2.6 3区哲学

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2021-06-08 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2021.1935842

S. W. Adrian, C. Kroløkke, J. Herrmann

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引用次数: 5