Marta Tómmerbakk
Routledge, 2022

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This book addresses some of the controversies and uncertainties associated with reducing the extensive exploitation of fossil fuels due to their role in global warming.

Elisabeth Marta Tómmerbakk explores why a transition towards a post-carbon society is so difficult to accomplish by examining how the relationship between petroleum production and climate change is politically framed and negotiated in contested cases. This question is approached through a process-oriented comparative case study of Lofoten, located in the Norwegian Sea above the Arctic Circle, and Yasuní-ITT (Ishpingo, Tambococha, and Tiputini) located in the Ecuadorian Amazon: regions that both belong to oil-exporting countries with highly oil-dependent economies.

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Edited by Mauricio Berger, Tomás Carroza and Gonzalo Bailo
CELFI, 2021

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El presente libro reúne una serie de trabajos en torno al desarrollo nanotecnológico en Argentina, organizados en tres secciones sub- temáticas: “Políticas Públicas, Regulación y Gobernanza”; “Innovación Nanotecnológica, Ciencia y Regulación. Una Mirada al Desarrollo de la Nanomedicina / Farmaceútica”; e “Innovación Responsable, Desarrollo Sustentable y Principio Precautorio”. Las y los autores provienen de la academia y sectores tecnológicos, del sector público y de organismos elaboradores de normas nanoespecíficas.

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Sun-ha Hong
NYU Press, 2020

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An inquiry into what we can know in an age of surveillance and algorithms

Knitting together contemporary technologies of datafication to reveal a broader, underlying shift in what counts as knowledge, Technologies of Speculation reframes today’s major moral and political controversies around algorithms and artificial intelligence. How many times we toss and turn in our sleep, our voluminous social media activity and location data, our average resting heart rate and body temperature: new technologies of state and self-surveillance promise to re-enlighten the black boxes of our bodies and minds. But Sun-ha Hong suggests that the burden to know and to digest this information at alarming rates is stripping away the liberal subject that ‘knows for themselves’, and risks undermining the pursuit of a rational public. What we choose to track, and what kind of data is extracted from us, shapes a society in which my own experience and sensation is increasingly overruled by data-driven systems.

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Edited by Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI)
2005

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Los casos simulados CTS son propuestas para el aprendizaje de la participación ciudadana a través de controversias sobre ciencia y tecnología con relevancia social o ambiental. Se trata de estrategias educativas diseñadas por los miembros del grupo Argo y experimentadas desde hace años en aulas españolas y latinoamericanas. En ellos se plantean problemas reales de interacción entre ciencia, tecnología y sociedad en ámbitos como la salud, el medio ambiente, el urbanismo, etc. Cada una de esas controversias parten de un problema sobre el que se ha de tomar una decisión. Los diversos puntos de vista, intereses y valores presentes en la controversia son encarnados por distintos grupos que configuran una red de actores sociales con planteamientos diferenciados. En esa red existe siempre un grupo que tiene el papel de mediador, garantizando la apertura y pluralidad del debate y haciendo posible que la decisión final sea fruto de la negociación y el consenso a partir de los argumentos presentados por los grupos que defienden valores e intereses enfrentados.

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Edited by Graciela Natansohn and Florencia Rovetto
EDUFBA, 2019

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O grupo Gig@ lança nova publicação, o livro “Internet e feminismos: olhares sobre violências sexistas desde a América Latina”, de organização de Graciela Natansohn (coordenadora do Gig@ e professora da UFBA) e Florencia Rovetto (Universidad Nacional de Entre Rios, UNER, Argentina), aborda debates atuais sobre o feminismo e o ativismo digital na América Latina.

O conteúdo reúne artigos em português e espanhol com trabalhos debatem ativismo, feminismo, ciberfeminismo e internet no contexto de América Latina, com olhar e perspectiva localizados. O livro é um lançamento da Edufba.

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