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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science

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The article was published on 1994-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 718 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Science wars & Intellectual freedom.

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Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek's Guide to Contemporary Literature

Jay Clayton
- 01 Dec 2002 - 
TL;DR: In Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho (2000), Katz introduces what some might consider a rare creature: a teenage computer hacker who reads literature as discussed by the authors.
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Deleting the Subject: A Feminist Reading of Epistemology in Artificial Intelligence

TL;DR: Feminist epistemology can be used to approach this from new directions, in particular, to show how women's knowledge may be left out of consideration by AI's focus on masculine subjects.
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Une approche structurationniste de l’activité de consommation ordinaire : les expériences et la construction du soi des consommateurs dans les forums de discussion en ligne

TL;DR: In this paper, Caru et Cova propose an approfondissement de la connaissance relative aux mecanismes de the construction du soi apprehendee dans a complexite.
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Dialogical aspects of the technologies of the self in organizational analysis

TL;DR: Organizational evolution is presented in lieu of the concept of change, revolution, revitalization, etc. in that one can assert that organizations can only evolve, they cannot develop a new structure and paradigm from nonexistent precursors, elements, structures, etc as discussed by the authors.
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Why does technology fail to benefit the poorest farmers? A sociotechnical approach to the study of innovation and poverty

Abstract: This dissertation seeks to understand the barriers preventing the poorest farmers from realizing greater benefits from technology innovation. The goal of the dissertation is to derive policy relevant insights for reorienting the institutions structuring agriculture innovation systems to ensure the poorest farmers reap greater benefits from agricultural technology. The research for the three papers was conducted in India and pairs qualitative interviews of farmers and other actors in the agricultural innovation system, including members of the private sector, government, NGOs, international donor agencies, and researchers, with analysis of survey data collected by the author, and secondary sources, including government documents, NGO and donor reports, newspaper articles, books, and journal articles. The results demonstrate that the benefits of agricultural technology are frequently skewed toward wealthier farmers. This continues to be the case, even when policy makers and technologists are explicitly concerned with the needs of the poorest. Ensuring benefits of technology are realized by the poorest farmers, requires context specific fit between physical and institutional dimensions of technology that explicitly takes into account the opportunities and barriers facing the poorest farmers. Reorienting agricultural innovation systems to meet the needs of the poorest requires more than just technologies with the appropriate physical dimensions. It also requires efforts across stages of the innovation system to align the physical and the institutional dimensions of technology with local conditions, in ways that meet the needs