Data as Collectively Generated Patterns: Making Sense of Data Ownership
Data ownership is power. Who should hold that power? How should data be owned?
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The Practices of Objectivity in Regulatory Science
Of all the noteworthy features of modernity, one of the most remarkable, yet least remarked, is our reliance on policy makers to know what is good for us.
Personal Narratives Build Trust Across Ideological Divides
Lack of trust is a key barrier to collaboration across ideological divides.
Partnership and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry: the case of clinical research
This study attempts to test the hypothesis that collaborative research projects boost R&D performance.
Beyond Porn and Discreditation: Epistemic Promises and Perils of Deepfake Technology in Digital Lifeworlds
Deepfakes are a new form of synthetic media that broke upon the world in 2017. Bringing photoshopping to video, deepfakes replace people in existing videos with someone else’s likeness.
The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability
The contribution makes use of a sociotechnical imaginaries (STI) framework to expose crucial but neglected governance issues in sociotechnical areas of key relevance to sustainability transformations
Science and Technology for Humanity: An STS View from Singapore
With this short essay, we aim to raise awareness of the NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity (NISTH) initiative and to invite our colleagues to partake in the research programs we hope
The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World
How tech companies like Google, Airbnb, StubHub, and Facebook learn from experiments in our data-driven world—an excellent primer on experimental and behavioral economics Have you logged into Facebo
Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Privacy, Personal Data, and Surveillance
Privacy has always been one of the most precarious rights of American life because it lacks clear protections in the U.S. Constitution.
Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics
This report provides a preliminary distillation of Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics (CompCoRe) – a cross-national study of the policy responses of 16 countries across five conti
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