Browsing Rensselaer Libraries by Subject "Science and technology studies"
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Accessing (or not) telemedicine to treat opioid use disorder during covid-19: an ethnographic study in new york state
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)This dissertation presents an in-person and digital ethnography of people in New York State who use drugs and seek treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) using phone or video connection to receive healthcare (telecare) ... -
Accountability, responsibility, and 'success' among medical NGOs in Central America
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-05)This paper seeks to examine how registered, 501(c)3 short-term medical missions (STMMs) create and define accountability, responsibility, and success within their organization. To explore this question, a survey measuring ... -
Adaptation governance in rural Austria and New York
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2020-08)The objective of this study is to analyze planned adaptation as it is localized in agricultural communities as “political all the way through.” It argues that adaptation is not only shaped by political orders as it is ... -
Agents on the loose : embodied reflexive practice in emerging computational social science
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Air pollution governance in Iran: inhibiting factors
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-08)The aim of this study is to advance understanding of air pollution governance in Iran through examination of supporting policy and the ‘thought-styles’ of various stakeholders. The study will focus on four stakeholder ... -
Arcadian pasts and futures: making and breaking a lignite coal landscape in southern greece
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)At the end of the 1950s, Greece’s state-owned electrical utility the Public Power Corporation (PPC) surveyed large reserves of a low-quality energy resource called lignite coal around the town of Megalopolis. Since the ... -
Averting a.i. catastrophe : improving democratic intelligence for technological risk governance
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2019-08)Concerns about the negative social impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) continue to grow as rapid technological developments bring the promises and threats of AI into reality. Though long dismissed by AI scientists, ... -
Beavers, settlers, and scientists : entanglements of environmental science and (in)justice in austral patagonia, 1940s-2020s
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2020-08)This dissertation examines how the production of scientific knowledges has been entangled with the making of inter-generational, environmental, interspecies, and memory (in)justices in Austral Patagonia, 1920s-1940s. I ... -
Becoming irradiated: the epistemic politics of neglect along india’s nuclear fuel cycle
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)Becoming Irradiated demonstrates that the dual epistemic conditions of self-reliance and nuclear safety neglect experiences of radioactive contamination across three varied irradiated facilities in India that comprise the ... -
Becoming patient : testimonial conditions and the (un)making of injury
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2020-05)This dissertation examines three cases of what I refer to as testimonial conditions, health conditions marked by the requirement of the patient to establish the validity of their illness through narrative, rather than ... -
"Big ’P’ politics, small ’p’ advocacy" : political participation, intersectionality, and information technology in Northern Ireland
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Bodies from below : decomposition, death certificates, and the politics of 'natural' death
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2020-08)This dissertation focuses on human decomposition research within the forensic sciences, in particular forensic entomology, and how the death certificate Manner of Death category ‘Natural Death’ effects forensic research ... -
Breathtaking: contemporary figures of U.S. asthma care
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Building utopia with tomorrow’s trash: formal and informal infrastructures for organics recycling in New York City
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2016-08)In this dissertation, I describe the interactions between informal infrastructures for community composting and micro-hauling, and the formal organics recycling system implemented by the City. I do this through a detailed ... -
Car guys and martial artists : knowledge classification and validity in non-occupational communities of practice
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2019-05)This study argues that while these communities are increasingly using the internet to communicate and organize, expertise that new members gain from the internet is not truly ‘valid;’ because expertise in these communities ... -
Communitarian technology : realizing thicker communities within societies built for networked individualism
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-05)This dissertation provides an account of community through the lens of the politics of technology. That is, how do the artifacts, infrastructures, sociotechnical systems and other technologies that constitute everyday life ... -
Community matters : a history of biological nitrogen fixation and nodulation research, 1965 to 1995
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Complexities of collaboration : an open source story
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-08)This dissertation examines how collaboration has been conceived and practiced in two communities of open source digital practice: the open source software community, most famously anchored by the Linux operating systems ... -
Contesting avoidable blindness : socially responsible innovation systems and multilateral circulation
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-08)The theoretical significance of this research is that it contradicts the assumption that highly sophisticated science and technology is developed in the west and transferred to developing countries.It also develops new ... -
Contingent mechanization : the case of American dairying
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2008-08)