The use of autonomous systems is encountering rapid growth as they complement and/or supplement human-operated systems across a variety of safety or service-critical applications covering civilian, industrial or defence needs. Autonomous systems entail socio-technical relationships with users in their environment,
Session on “care in STS” at the Nordic STS Conference
By Lisa Linden On June 13th-14th 2019, the binary Nordic STS Conference was held in Tampere, Finland. Together with Elena Bogdanova, Doris Lydahl and Linda Soneryd from the University of Gothenburg, I was co-organising the session Care in STS – Objects, Transformations
New book published – Living Data: Making Sense of Health Biosensing
Does biosensing increase people’s control over their health, as it is often claimed? What is the connection between more data and health? Who is biosensing who? What is the relation between biosensing and people’s anxieties about their health? How do
Upcoming Nordic STS Conference
On June 13th-14th 2019, the binary Nordic STS Conference will be held in Tampere, Finland. Together with colleagues from the University of Gothenburg, Lisa Lindén from CSS is co-organising the session Care in STS – Objects, Transformations and Politics. It
2019 Feminist Technoscience Studies MA Module and Summer School
Meeting Frankenstein’s Companions Tuesday 28 – Friday 31 May 2019 The Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies at Lancaster University, UK, in cooperation with the Department of Sociology, Lancaster’s Centre for Science Studies, and the Centre for the Study of