Emergent Consequences of Narrating Futures in Energy Transitions

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Autoři: Durdovic, Martin
The paper presents a general theoretical argument about narrating futures and demonstrates its validity on the topic of energy transitions. It goes beyond the perspective of social constructionism and analyzes the temporal relationship between narratives, as employed in social in...
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Intermediation in design as a practice of institutioning and commoning

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Autoři: Maurizio Teli, John McQueenie, Roberto Cibin, Marcus Foth
Design practices often involve grassroots communities and institutional actors with designers working as or with intermediaries. This paper defines intermediation as a significant design practice, especially when designers engage in commoning and institutioning—concepts that have...
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Counter-strategizing after a dialogue failure: Stakeholder involvement and nuclear waste disposal in the Czech Republic

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Autoři: Durdovic, Martin
This case study focuses on the temporal dynamics of stakeholder interaction to provide a sociological analysis of the deep geological repository siting process in the Czech Republic. By introducing the concept of counter-strategizing, it clarifies the shift in interaction after t...
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The Mobility Interview: Triangulating Interview and GPS Data to Explore the Role of Mobility in Everyday Life

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Autoři: van Dülmen, Christoph, Šimon, Martin, Bischof, Susann, et al.
This article presents a mixed-methods research protocol suitable for studying everyday mobility and its effects on life chances for a wide range of populations. We argue that it can address, among other issues, two important methodological challenges in the study o...
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Mobilities and commons unseen: spatial mobility in homeless people explored through the analysis of GPS tracking data

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Autoři: Šimon, Martin, Vašát, Petr, Daňková, Hana, Gibas, Petr, Poláková, Markéta
The aim of this study was to examine the spatial mobility of homeless people in urban areas, exploring homeless mobility, its drivers, limits and links to personal attributes, and whether there is an association between the extent of spatial activity and an...
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Philosophy and Ethics of Energy Development. What are the most general questions concerning our attitudes to energy technologies?

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Autoři: Ďurďovič, Martin, Mlynář, Jan
Energy production and energy facilities and projects are based on scientific knowledge and they require employment of various kinds of technologies. This links energy development with a more general view of natural sciences and technologies and their function in contemporary adva...
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Energy and the public. How societies communicate and decide about energy issues?

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Autoři: Ďurďovič, Martin, Mlynář, Jan
As people living in the EU states we take it for granted that a source of electricity will be there whenever we need it. It is a considerably less self-evident matter, how the electricity we rely on is supposed to be produced and distributed. The energy sector stands at a crossro...
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“Smart” quarantine and “blanket” quarantine: the Czech response to the COVID-19 pandemic

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Autoři: Kouřil, Petr and Slavomíra Ferenčuhová
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Land, Water and Sun: Tuning into Socio-Ecological Relations in Radio Design

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Autoři: Roberto Cibin, Sarah Robinson, Nicola J. Bidwell, Conor Linehan, Laura Maye, Nadia Pantidi, Maurizio Teli
Recent HCI scholarship has critiqued anthropocentrism in design as contributing to the ecological crisis. The current paper contributes theoretically and empirically to this area, adopting the lens of Socio-Ecological Relations, inspired by Environmental History and STS. We argue...
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Guiding Principles for Participatory Design-inspired Natural Language Processing

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Autoři: Tommaso Caselli, Roberto Cibin, Costanza Conforti, Enrique Ecinas, Maurizio Teli
We introduce 9 guiding principles to integrate Participatory Design (PD) methods in the development of Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems. The adoption of PD methods by NLP will help to alleviate issues concerning the development of more democratic, fairer, less-biased tec...
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A Morphogenetic Approach to Social Aspects of Energy: The Case of Coal

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Autoři: Durdovic, Martin
This chapter proposes the morphogenetic approach, as elaborated within the confines of Margaret Archer’s critical realism, as a suitable starting point for theoretically grounded research into social aspects of energy. It demonstrates in outline the suitability of this approach i...
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Neither magic bullet nor a mere tool: negotiating multiple logics of the checklist in healthcare quality improvement

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Autoři: Kocman, D., Stöckelová, T., Pearse, R. and Martin, G.
Over two decades, the checklist has risen to prominence in healthcare improvement. This paper contributes to the debate between its proponents and critics, making the case for an STS-informed understanding of the checklist that demonstrates the limitations of both the ‘checklist-...
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Devices of difference: On the socio-material forms and effects of technologies in complementary and alternative medicine

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Autoři: Klepal, J., T. Stöckelová
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