New publication explores contemporary digital politics

As a follow-up publication to the CRC lecture series in summer 2024, the special issue on Digital Sovereignty has now been published at communication +1, edited by Christoph Borbach and Tristan Thielmann.

🔗 https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/cpo/issue/221/info/ (open access)

#DigitalSovereignity #DigitalPolitics #AI #ResponsibleAI #HCI #STS #MediaStudies #OpenAccess #SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation

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Our forum series continues next week with
🎤 interventions by Marcus Burkhardt & Hendrik Bender on "System Prompts"

📆 Wednesday, Dec 3
🕙 2:15-4:45 pm
📍Universität Siegen, Herrengarten 3, room: AH-A 217/18 or online via webex
🔗 more info & registration on our website: https://u-si.de/RyQlv

#AI #ResponsibleAI #HCI #STS #ResearchMethods #DataEthics #UniversityOfSiegen #SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #SyntheticMethods

The project includes cases such as exoplanet #K218b, phosphine on #Venus, Tabby's Star, #Oumuamua, and #3IATLAS. Each video is currently being coded in terms of risk and benefit narratives, sources, science actors and evaluations, and frames of (un)certainty.

The group is using computational methods to analyze thousands of user comments on public videos to investigate reactions to discovery in terms of sentiment and other aspects.

#PostDetection #SETI #SocialScience #ScienceCommunication #STS

SPSP Newsletter # 24

November 2025

Meanwhile, a new essay about Buddhist interpretations of artificial intelligence and a Japanese Zen robo-priest. https://academia.fzrw.info/en/archives/2495 #religion #sts #buddhism
Buddhist Robots – Stanislav Panin – philosopher and scholar

While some religions find the idea of artificial intelligence problematic, Buddhism seems to be pretty comfortable with artificial life. In the past few decades, a gamut of Buddhist authors, including the 14th Dalai Lama, consistently addressed this topic, arguing that people can potentially reincarnate as robots and that robots can achieve spiritual enlightenment. Recently, some Buddhist comminities even experimented with introducing robots in their spiritual practices.

Meet the new Euro indicators dashboard – News articles

We are happy to share the new look and feel of the Euro Indicators dashboard, modernised and enhanced…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/269275/

"All knowledge is local" by Geoffrey C. Bowker
https://ics.uci.edu/~gbowker/Pages%20from%20LC_Journal_Issue2_2010-bowker.pdf

"to the extent that knowledge can be shown to have a very wide range, this can only be done in a highly localized environment, one about which you can say ‘all other things being equal’"

#STS #knowledge #community

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"What is the relationship of science and technology to human history, and how have Marxists conceptualized this problematic within historical materialism? The work of Boris Hessen represents one of the most sophisticated attempts to apply a materialist analysis to the history of science—specifically, how the economic needs of early capitalism influenced what we now think of as modern science and the Scientific Revolution. In this blog, I explore how Hessen pursues his analysis in his seminal essay “The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia” (henceforth referred to as “Newton’s Roots”).

While Hessen did not develop the first Marxist analysis of science, Hessen’s approach was one of the first truly systematic attempts. Moreover, his work helps us see past the often oversimplified division between “Western Marxism” and Soviet thought, revealing a productive tension in international Marxism through attempts to apply historical materialism in understanding science, technology, and nature under capitalist society.

In the same vein, Henryk Grossman makes the connection between science and capitalist society explicit in his work with the Institute of Social Research (Institut für Sozialforschung, or IfS)—several of Grossmann’s articles were published in the IfS’s journal Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung (ZfS). Grossmann was in fact one of the first defenders of Hessen’s work against critics such as George. N. Clark, Richard S. Westfall, etc. as these critics fundamentally misunderstood Hessen’s theses, and, by extension, Grossmann’s own formulation of the relation between science and capitalist society. While both reached similar conclusions independently, and Grossmann’s work is introduced at points, I focus on Hessen’s formulation here."

https://ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/RootsandBranches_Hessen/

#Marxism #Science #Newton #HistoricalMaterialism #STS #Capitalism

Roots & Branches. Boris Hessen’s Marxist Science Historiography | CTWG

An Introduction to a Marxist Science Historiography