Author: Larry

• March 21, 2023

  Program Spotlight: Introducing the Trust Collaboratory

  By Cristian Capotescu and Gil Eyal, Columbia University [For the Spring 2023 SKAT Newsletter] TrustWorkers Project exhibition June 2022 at Columbia University Trust is one of the twenty-first century’s defining social and political issues. Trust, or lack thereof, shapes how citizens interact with media, information technology, and expert systems. Despite, or perhaps precisely because trust…
• January 1, 2023

  In Memoriam: Bruno Latour (1947-2022)

  By Cristian Morales, for the Fall 2022 SKAT Newsletter In July 1984, thirty prominent sociologists, historians, and other scholars met for a workshop at the University of Twente that would lead to the famous volume: “The Social Construction of Technological Systems”. At this workshop were luminaries such as Trevor Pinch, Wiebe Bijker, Thomas Hughes, Harry…
• December 13, 2022

  Q&A with Diane Vaughan, Author of Dead Reckoning

  Dead Reckoning is an historical ethnography of the life course of the air traffic control system from system emergence through 2017. Based on archival research and fieldwork in four air traffic control facilities, the book focuses on how historical institutional conditions, assemblages of social actors, and events in the system’s external environment – political, economic, technical,…
• November 14, 2022

  Q&A with Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Author of The Quantified Scholar

  Interviewed by Larry Au on November 4, 2022 for the Fall 2022 SKATOLOGY Newsletter Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, where he is a founding faculty member of the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute and a co-founder of the Computational Social Science program, as well as…