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21 produkter
Internationalization of the Social Sciences – Asia–Latin America–Middle East–Africa–Eurasia
Av Michael Kuhn, Doris Weidemann
Häftad, 2021
538 kr
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Internationalization of the social sciences rests on the setup of international scientific infrastructures, networks, and research agendas. Yet it has also stimulated discussions on academic dependency and the need for the indigenization of theories and methods. This book traces phenomena that …
On Folding
Towards a New Field of Interdisciplinary Research
Av Michael Friedman, Wolfgang Schaffner
Häftad, 2016
596 kr
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It is only recently, with the increasing interest in origami and folding in natural sciences and the humanities, that the fold as a new conception in a whole range of disciplines has begun to be conceived in a broader way. Folding as a material and structural process offers a new methodology to …
Science, Art, and Neuroethics – Transdisciplinary Collaborations to Foster Public Engagement
Av Mathilde Bessert–nettelb, Oliver Müller m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
404 kr
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Research in the field of neurotechnology raises ethical and societal questions and thus represents a particular challenge for public engagement efforts. How should formats of public outreach be shaped to encourage public reflection on science? How can the one-way nature of communication between the …
Construction of Analogy–Based Research Progr – The Lock–and–Key Analogy in 20th Century Biochemistry
Häftad, 2021
523 kr
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When the German chemist Emil Fischer presented his lock-and-key hypothesis in 1899, his analogy to describe the molecular relationship between enzymes and substrates quickly gained vast influence and provided future generations of scientists with a tool to investigate the relation between chemical …
Persistence of Technology – Histories of Repair, Reuse, and Disposal
Av Stefan Krebs, Heike Weber m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
621 kr
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Repair, reuse and disposal are closely interlinked phenomena related to the service lives and persistence of technologies. When technical artefacts become old and worn out, decisions have to be taken: is it necessary, worthwhile or even possible to maintain and repair, reuse or dismantle them – or …
Techno–Apparatus of Bodily Production – A New Materialist Theory of Technology and the Body
Av Josef Barla
Häftad, 2021
435 kr
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What if the terms "technology" and "the body" did not refer to distinct phenomena interacting in one way or another? What if we understood their relationship as far more intimate – technologies as always already embodied, material bodies as always already technologized? What would it mean, then, to …
Genealogy of Popular Science – From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
Av Jesús Muñoz Morcillo, Caroline Y. Rob Trotha m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
917 kr
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Despite the efforts of modern scholars to explain the origins of science communication as a social, rhetorical, and aesthetic phenomenon, most researchers approach the popularization of science from the perspective of present issues, thus ignoring its historical roots in classical culture along …
Robotic Knitting – Re–Crafting Human–Robot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting
Av Pat Treusch
Häftad, 2021
617 kr
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As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards »cobot« technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can …
Plausibility of Future Scenarios – Conceptualising an Unexplored Criterion in Scenario Planning
Häftad, 2021
924 kr
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What does plausibility mean in relation to scenario planning and how do users of scenarios assess it? Despite the concept's ubiquity, its epistemological and empirical foundations remain unexplored in previous research.Ricarda Schmidt-Scheele offers an interdisciplinary perspective: she presents …
More Than Machines? – The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology
Av Laura Voss
Häftad, 2021
435 kr
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We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this fascinating phenomenon, providing a rich insight into practices of animacy (and inanimacy) attribution to robot technology: from science-fiction to robotics R&D, from science …
Climate Protection, Resource Efficiency, and Sustainable Engineering
Transdisciplinary Approaches to Design and Manufacturing Technology
Av Ilona Horwath, Swetlana Schweizer
Häftad, 2023
889 kr
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The big societal challenges, such as climate change and public health, call for innovative approaches to address them. The contributors of this book present new ways to tackle these challenges by inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations in light weight engineering. They introduce a framework for …
Emotional Drivers of Innovation
Exploring the Moral Economy of Prototypes
Häftad, 2024
816 kr
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Innovation is ubiquitous and has become a universal term that is indispensable to describe interventions, projects, or products. Franziska Sörgel argues that emotions influence innovations as they are inherent in initial ideas, expectations and habitual evaluation criteria that impact the …
At the Edge of AI
Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations
Häftad, 2024
890 kr
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How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can do alone? Through multiple perspectives and methods, Libuse Hannah Veprek examines the imagination of these assemblages, their creation, and everyday negotiation in the …
Order of People
Contesting Bio-Scientific Human Classifications
Av Nils Ellebrecht, Tino Plümecke m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
590 kr
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Bioscientific concepts of human diversity and politics of inequality have long been intertwined in efforts to order and classify people. The contributors to this volume critically examine the particular ways in which these concepts are constituted and applied across various national contexts and …
Envisaging Dataist Modernity
The Construction of Edinburgh's Innovation Apparatus
Häftad, 2025
1000 kr
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The Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal (CRD) constitutes a long-term infrastructure investment that is designed to transform the city region into the »Data Capital of Europe«. Drawing on science and technology studies and urban studies, Nicolas Zehner explores the question of who …
Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds
An Inquiry into Agrobiodiversity Conservation Through the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Häftad, 2025
964 kr
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How has the world lost three quarters of its crop diversity in less than a century? How does a collection of seeds frozen in the Arctic help face this loss and ensure future food security? And how can Indigenous knowledges and artistic interventions inspire modes of dealing with agrobiodiversity …
Making of Scientific Knowledge
Sensory and Bodily Practices in Field Biology
Häftad, 2025
1108 kr
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What does really happen between the moment when a scientist is observing a bird in the wild and publishing a scientific chart? Jana Thierfelder reveals the hidden life of field science through the 30-year archive of biologist Michael Griesser’s work with Siberian jays in Sweden. Blending design, …
Understanding Science with Large Language Models?
Potentials for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science
Av Arno Simons, Adrian Wüthrich m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
592 kr
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How are large language models (LLMs) changing research in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS)? The contributors to this volume show how these tools open new possibilities for interpretative scholarship while posing fresh challenges for fields that thrive on qualitative methods, …
Inclusion in Science
The Social Architecture of Science-Public Relations
Häftad, 2026
810 kr
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Relations between science and publics are tricky affairs. While public participation in science is expanding, it regularly falls short of emancipatory hopes. Claudia Göbel analyzes these tensions as an important feature of contemporary society. She develops an extended model of inclusion in science …
Professionalisation of Medical Education
The Rise of Simulation-Based Training
Häftad, 2026
1141 kr
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Simulation-based training (SBT) has been on the rise as a medical education methodology in Germany since the 1980s, characterising this period of change in terms of professionalisation and institutionalisation. Jasmin Dierkes illustrates how SBT reflects significant historical and contemporary …
