Pub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2142431
Alberto López Cuenca
{"title":"Towards a posthumanistic knowledge production. Multimedia artistic research during the rise of neoliberalism in Mexico","authors":"Alberto López Cuenca","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2022.2142431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2022.2142431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78676478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2023.2169311
J. Griesemer
{"title":"On lowering guardrails","authors":"J. Griesemer","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2023.2169311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2023.2169311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89585088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-16DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2023.2173485
Vivette García Deister
{"title":"Critical contacts: making STS public amid Mexico’s forensic crisis","authors":"Vivette García Deister","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2023.2173485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2023.2173485","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90234672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2156178
Luciano Levin
{"title":"Conocimientos, sociedades y tecnologías en América Latina: Viejos modelos y desencantos, nuevos horizontes y desafíos","authors":"Luciano Levin","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2022.2156178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2022.2156178","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136198463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2123633
Martín Tironi, Camila Albornoz
ABSTRACT Digital platforms have quickly become popular thanks to the algorithms that have made it possible to work from a smartphone. The potential benefits of job flexibility and easy complementary income for “delivery partners” have been highlighted. However, work through tasks precariously paid, the impossibility of organizing in a labor union and the constant monitoring of labor performance has put platforms to the test. Despite these working conditions, delivery staff are not passively under surveillance, but rather the platforms are a space of frictions. In this article, we seek to abandon the idea of delivery platforms as objectified entities that are the natural/universal result of technological progress in the city by adressing the frictions and local practices of reproduction of the platform. Through a 6-month fieldwork consisting of interviews with Uber Eats delivery workers in Santiago de Chile, this article seeks to describe and delve into practices of subversion that delivery staff use to resist excessive surveillance at work, where indicators such as rating are essential to avoid being “deactivated”. Our findings indicate that Uber Eats’ platform deploys various strategies that we will call friendly surveillance, which operates as veiled nudges in which the system seeks to keep delivery staff engaged through incentives and promotions. At the same time, the platform collects data and defines what it means to be an efficient delivery partner.
{"title":"Surveillance and the ecology of frictions in platform urbanism: the case of delivery workers in Santiago de Chile","authors":"Martín Tironi, Camila Albornoz","doi":"10.1080/25729861.2022.2123633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2022.2123633","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Digital platforms have quickly become popular thanks to the algorithms that have made it possible to work from a smartphone. The potential benefits of job flexibility and easy complementary income for “delivery partners” have been highlighted. However, work through tasks precariously paid, the impossibility of organizing in a labor union and the constant monitoring of labor performance has put platforms to the test. Despite these working conditions, delivery staff are not passively under surveillance, but rather the platforms are a space of frictions. In this article, we seek to abandon the idea of delivery platforms as objectified entities that are the natural/universal result of technological progress in the city by adressing the frictions and local practices of reproduction of the platform. Through a 6-month fieldwork consisting of interviews with Uber Eats delivery workers in Santiago de Chile, this article seeks to describe and delve into practices of subversion that delivery staff use to resist excessive surveillance at work, where indicators such as rating are essential to avoid being “deactivated”. Our findings indicate that Uber Eats’ platform deploys various strategies that we will call friendly surveillance, which operates as veiled nudges in which the system seeks to keep delivery staff engaged through incentives and promotions. At the same time, the platform collects data and defines what it means to be an efficient delivery partner.","PeriodicalId":36898,"journal":{"name":"Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79700920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2037819
Camilo López-Aguirre, Diana Farías
ABSTRACT Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the workforce are paramount for the betterment of the scientific endeavor. Colombia is a country with great scientific potential, but also multiple long-lasting socioeconomical difficulties. Here, we provide a quantitative analysis of the temporal trajectories of gender parity in scientific publishing in Colombia. Data was dissected based on education level, researcher’s rank and research area, in order to elucidate differential patterns of scientific publishing. We controlled for gender-based differences in number of researchers by quantifying per capita scientific productivity. Our results show widespread gender disparity in scientific publishing persistent across time. Gender-based differences in per capita scientific publishing indicate that gender disparity persists even after controlling for differences in the number of researchers. Temporal trajectories revealed a decrease in women publishing in the medical sciences and a widening of the per capita publishing gender gap. Women senior researchers and women researchers with doctoral degrees had the lowest publishing participation within their group, suggesting access to postgraduate education or entering the workforce in themselves do not prevent women from being underrepresented. We highlight the need to understand the problem of underrepresentation in science and possible ways to address it beyond increasing the number of women researchers.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2021.1992959
Héctor Ricardo Hernández Galeano
That which is most palpable of media devices – a uniform tactile screen or the sleek casing of a smartphone – often renders less visible the complex materiality of that technology. Similarly, when speaking about artificial intelligence (AI) and its apparent ability to learn, buzzwords and phrases gloss over a careful understanding of how AI works and how it arose. Jussi Parikka and Kate Crawford concern themselves with ostensibly distinct matters: the former explores what it means to think of media geologically in A Geology of Media, while the latter investigates the history and discourse surrounding AI in Atlas of AI. Nonetheless, Parikka and Crawford coincide in the thrust of their projects: there is a particular theoretical potential in media devices and artificial intelligence that is not obvious in their final, packaged form. Parikka proposes a “metallurgical way of conducting theoretical work” that foregrounds nonhuman, geologic agency in the production of modern media technology. He calls attention to the geologic materiality of media through literature, art and theory: transdisciplinarity is central to the metallurgic method. Crawford adopts a cartographical approach, cutting through the mystique of AI by mapping out what AI is, what it is not, and how it has come to wield an air of unknowable abstraction. Through their respective methods, both books seek to (re)-ground media, intelligence, and discourse and begin anew.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2115221
María Verónica Troncoso Guzman, Francisca Ugarte
ABSTRACT The horror of the military coup in Chile motivated a massive international solidarity network. One of them was composed of self-organized citizens, NGOs, and Chilean exiles in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). This movement was a response to affected individuals facing the lack of immediate measures and policies of the FRG’s government towards exile and human rights violation victims in Chile. This article offers a cartography that traces key locations of such solidarity network: places where solidarity events took place, where the subjects involved reside, and their transits; with a special but not exclusive focus on the state of Baden-Württemberg, in the federal south. Considering the historical moment when this took place – Cold War scenario: Germany divided between the two ruling blocks – the cartography shows how this movement was a way of subverting that geopolitical order. This work, therefore, is a new contribution to the studies of solidarity and, at the same time, it links those studies with the field of STS, by presenting a cartography as a visual dispositif that documents the imbrications of solidarity, affections, politics, culture, Germans, and Chileans on a given territory.
智利军事政变的恐怖引发了一个庞大的国际团结网络。其中一个由自发组织的公民、非政府组织和在德意志联邦共和国的智利流亡者组成。这场运动是对受影响的个人的回应，他们面临着FRG政府对智利流亡和人权侵犯受害者缺乏即时措施和政策的问题。本文提供了一幅地图，追踪了这种团结网络的关键地点:团结事件发生的地方，涉及的主题居住的地方，以及他们的过境;并特别关注联邦南部的巴登-符腾堡州(baden - w rttemberg)。考虑到这种情况发生的历史时刻——冷战情景:德国被两个统治集团分裂——地图显示了这种运动是如何颠覆地缘政治秩序的。因此，这项工作是对团结研究的一项新贡献，同时，它将这些研究与STS领域联系起来，通过将地图绘制作为视觉配置文件，记录特定领土上的团结，情感，政治，文化，德国人和智利人的砖块。
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Pub Date : 2022-11-24DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2144004
María Eugenia Ulfe, Roxana Vergara
ABSTRACT The increasing number of claims filed by Indigenous peoples against pollution caused by extractive industries makes the challenge of factualizing and measuring the damage caused in their territories necessary. In Peru, the Kukama Kukamiria people are among the most affected by the various spills from the North Peruvian Pipeline since its construction, one of the most well-known occurred in the lower Marañón River in 2014. This paper is about the efforts and limitations involved in aligning the Kukama Kukamiria’s experiences with the criteria and frameworks for measuring damage and compensation amid the toxic environment and the complicated time and space of late capitalism. Based on ethnographic research and considering the judicial processes, the analysis found that compensation became a tool of dispute in which incommensurable Indigenous worlds emerged to claim for their incommensurability to exist. But in the Peruvian neoliberal and extractive context, compensation also became a technique for governing Indigenous lives and natures in a way that excludes those worlds.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-21DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2022.2110356
María Elissa Torres Carrasco
ABSTRACT This article analyses the controversy between neoconservatives and prochoice groups in their political use of abortion data in Ecuador. Despite the fact that there is a huge underreporting of abortion in the country – since it is an illegal process, with two exceptions – I keep track of how the narratives on this issue have changed from a moral and religious tone to a datified discourse focused on “science” and human rights where both neoconservative and prochoice groups are forced to produce their own studies, data, and conclusions with the little information available. Combining statistics together with a discourse analysis of the debates on the decriminalization of abortion for rape in 2019 in the National Assembly and the debate on the Constitutional Court in 2021, I observe the controversy that develops in the use of data. In conversation with literature on social studies of science, technology, and techno politics, I seek to contribute to the debate on the production and political use of data directly related to human rights, with an emphasis on women's rights in Latin America.
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