Janet Vertesi

@cyberlyra.bsky.social

Princeton Sociology Prof; NASA ethnography; tech policy; digitalSTS; critical technical practice; mobile Linux. Conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism.
https://janet.vertesi.com
https://www.optoutproject.net
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@cyberlyra.bsky.social

"Retro tech is not about nostalgia. It’s about resistance. Evading the technologies of capture, attention hacking, and dispossession. Resisting the forced hardware upgrades, the shuttered platform logins, and myriad forms of “progress” sold to us as the next new thing to appease the shareholders."

@cyberlyra.bsky.social

Hey #sociologists and #sts scholars! We've been teaching Merton's norms of science wrong for decades!! They're not lofty misstaken descriptions, but a prescription for state funded science to avoid Nazism! More relevant than ever today. My latest with @nataliebaviles.bsky.social
#academicsky

Dan Hirschman@asociologist.bsky.social

"Reading Merton’s writing on norms in science as a prescriptive text, not a descriptive one, makes visible his desire to counter the active dismantlement of prestigious and powerful scientific institutions in Nazi Germany." @nataliebaviles.bsky.social & @cyberlyra.bsky.social

issues.orgMerton Redux: Re-Confronting the Norms of Science in DemocracyThe decimation of democratic processes that undergird state-sponsored research may be ultimately more consequential than funding cuts.
@cyberlyra.bsky.social

Remember how the US fought a war to illegalize owning humans for forced labor, and a whole bunch of the losers decided NOT TO TELL said humans so they could continue extracting from them for YEARS?

A #Juneteenth lesson: the US has a long history of not letting human rights get in the way of profit.