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Computer programming was never a women's occupation at its inception
Historical scholarship contributed a misperception that computer programmers in the 1950s were mostly women who were then replaced by men in the 1960s…
Feb 21
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Shreeharsh Kelkar
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Vaccine hesitancy and the problem of "science"
The concerns of vaccine hesitant people must be taken seriously. But the specter of "science" needs to be used consistently.
Feb 14
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December 2024
How do you solve a problem like Bluesky?
Third-party labeling of posts and posters can be used to trade off between speech and reach. But this model has run into problems on Bluesky. The…
Dec 20, 2024
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What's the matter with social media?
The problem with platforms is not that they are for-profit or because the beguile viewers with "algorithms." Scale, context collapse, and…
Dec 9, 2024
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November 2024
Because: capitalism! is not an argument by itself
Students in my class will often blame "capitalism"--by which they often mean "profit-seeking"--for particular outcomes they don't like. But there is…
Nov 26, 2024
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Brian Wynne's study of Cumbrian sheep farmers, explained.
The strength of this paper is how thoroughly Wynne explains the sheep farmers' POV, their distrust of scientists and the government. Its weakness is its…
Nov 17, 2024
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People's political preferences come from their identities.
Not from information (or misinformation). The public understanding of science (PUS) model is truly alive and well in politics.
Nov 10, 2024
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The history of technology as a story of "key points"
The question of which technologies get adopted is much more contingent than we think. Tennis can help us think about it.
Nov 1, 2024
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Shreeharsh Kelkar
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October 2024
Is science bad for politics?
Daniel Sarewitz argues that yes, it is, and we're better off first hashing out value disagreements first. But shifting from arguing about facts to…
Oct 25, 2024
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Hawk-Eye line detection in tennis was not inevitable
There could have been many ways to auto-detect line calls in tennis. We picked one. But not because it was technically the "best," at least not in the…
Oct 18, 2024
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David Graeber's theory of technology
He was not so much a technological determinist as he was a social determinist.
Oct 12, 2024
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September 2024
Integrating expert and public input into policy design
In lieu of a post, here is an assignment from my "Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society" course at Berkeley.
Sep 17, 2024
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