Blocks and Overflows of Care: Territorialization and Marine Conservation in the Balearic Sea - Jose A. Cañada, 2026

The article expands upon care theory in Science and Technology Studies by attending to marine spaces and practices for conservation of marine and coastal ecosys...

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Eating Dust: Toxic Air and Parasitic Relations of Gold Mining in DR Congo - Simon Marijsse, 2026

Since the late 2000s, artisanal and small-scale gold miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have incorporated mechanized ball mills in their workflow. W...

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Atmospheric Analytics: Situated Encounters in the Age of Generative AI - Mathias Decuypere, Carlo Perrotta, 2026

This article challenges the view of technologies, and more particularly generative artificial intelligence (AI), as augmenting experience through binary human–c...

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Treasure Hunting in Tanzania as a Chronopolitical Practice - Jia Hui Lee, 2026

In Morogoro, Tanzania, people regularly embark on treasure hunting expeditions, usually near places or buildings associated with German colonialism. In recounti...

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Managing the Boundaries of Citizen Science: Reordering Science–Society Relations - Claudia Göbel, Kevin Altmann, Sascha Dickel, Michael Kitzing, Andreas Wenninger, 2026

Today, science is expected to open up to publics and be more responsible. At the same time, the legitimacy and autonomy of academic work are increasingly challe...

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Synthetic Participation: How Zoom Shaped the Experience of Participation in the Danish Climate Assembly - Irina Papazu, Rose Marie Højbjerg Henrichsen, 2026

As part of the Danish Climate Act of 2019, the government established a Climate Citizens’ Assembly to secure public participation in the formulation of climate ...

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Promises/Manual Labor Paradox: The Accountability Style of On-Site Validation in Microbiology Laboratory Automation - Joaquín Yrivarren, Alessandra C. Jacomuzzi, Miquel Domènech, 2026

This study investigates the role of validation reports in legitimizing laboratory automation through artificial intelligence and robotic systems in clinical mic...

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Developmental new space in South Korea: Militarized developmentalism and the privatization of outer space - Hae-Seo Kim, 2026

“Developmental New Space” might, at first glance, seem to be an oxymoron since New Space is often conceptualized as being free from centralized government suppo...

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Terrarium as Geo-Fetish: On the Vectorialist Re-Commoning of the Earth - Sungyong Ahn, 2026

This article examines the transformation of terrarium building from a colonial-era hobbyist practice into a contemporary YouTube-based citizen science movement,...

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“Go to Another State”: Rust Belts, Microchip Futures, and Innovation's Others in Upstate New York - Marlise Horvath Schneider, Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer, 2026

Innovation is regularly depicted as the answer to regional socioeconomic decline and deindustrialization. Yet, the results of regional innovation strategies are...

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Otherwising or Attaching? Play, Care, and Critique in Interdisciplinary Public Engagement - Catherine M. Montgomery, Santini Basra, Corrienne McCulloch, Annemarie B. Docherty, 2026

This article builds on the affective turn in Science and Technology Studies (STS) analyses of public engagement with science to explore the tension between epis...

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Temporary Infrastructure: Temporal Boundary Work, Form Investments, and Delayed Endings - Philipp Knopp, Tilo Grenz, 2026

Temporality has become a prominent theme in research on infrastructure in science and technology studies. Infrastructure is often conceptualized as permanent an...

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A Tool, Connector, or Data Processor: On the Multiplicity of an Algorithm and Its Worlds - Ida Schrøder, Helene Friis Ratner, Laura Kocksch, 2026

This paper explores the development of an algorithm for child welfare administration in Denmark. Based on an ethnographic study of the development process, we a...

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Congestion Conversations: Efficiency and Politics in an Eastern Mediterranean Port City - Canay Özden-Schilling, 2026

Maritime movement has been essential to the current moment of capitalism, marked by the management and optimization of supply chains. As seaports continue to sc...

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Testing and Errors: Aligning Cybersecurity Expertise in Contemporary UK Energy Infrastructures - Ola Michalec, 2026

Digitalization of the grid promises a sustainable energy system. However, we do not fully understand how innovative technologies are introduced—and challenged—i...

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Wavematters

WAVEMATTERS is a European Research Council funded project that investigates how physical waves, sound waves, electromagnetic waves and solar radiation, come to matter in contemporary urbanism.

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Two or Three Confusions About Vibrations - Brett Mommersteeg, 2026

Road traffic noise is considered the largest contributor to excessive noise exposure levels in Europe. Central to this type of noise is what is called “rolling ...

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Expendable Workers: Food Delivery and Technopolitics in China - Angela Ke Li, 2026

Through a case study of Meituan Waimai, China's dominant food delivery platform, this article examines how algorithmic management is entangled with labor p...

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