Author Archive
Article
December 11th, 2016 by: Jenna Healey
Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 1 – doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.4.1.02 PDF: Healey_Bluetooth Babies At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Church & Dwight Co., the makers of First Response pregnancy and ovulation test kits, unveiled the latest and greatest innovation in the world of do-it-yourself reproductive testing: the Bluetooth-enabled pregnancy test.[1] Christened the “First Response Pregnancy…
More Info
Article
December 7th, 2016 by: Heather Prescott
Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 1 – doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.4.1.03 PDF: Prescott_This is Not a Dalkon Shield In March of 2015, a group of Colorado lawmakers began wearing earrings shaped like intrauterine devices (IUDs) to demonstrate their endorsement of a bipartisan but controversial bill that would provide IUDs and other long-acting contraceptives for low-income women. The…
More Info
Article
June 21st, 2016 by: Debjani Bhattacharya
Technology’s Stories vol. 4, no. 1 – doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2016.6.1.01 PDF: Bhattacharyya_Manufactured Landscapes The island is called Talpatty in Bangladesh and New Moore in India. Claimed by both countries, this uninhabited island is part of a water-border-complex and the flashpoint of conflict over territoriality, sovereignty, and ownership rights within a new economic regime created by the…
More Info
Article
June 1st, 2016 by: Scott Knowles
Technology’s Stories vol. 4, no. 1 – doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2016.6.1.02 PDF: Knowles_Deferred Maintenance Construction is a sacred rite in American life—it demonstrates vision.[1] In the rise of suburban developments, the flow of cars on an expressway, and the glimmer of skylines it embodies democracy. At the same time, the willingness, the compulsion even, to build homes…
More Info
Article
June 1st, 2016 by: Vivek Kant
Technology’s Stories vol. 4, no. 1 – doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2016.6.1.03 PDF: Kant_Human as System Component In 1976, the Danish engineer, Jens Rasmussen[1], was well aware that his approach to studying human performance in high-risk technological contexts was breaking new ground. He commented wryly, “When entering a study of human performance in real-life tasks one rapidly finds…
More Info
Article
September 1st, 2015 by: Laura Ann Twagira
Technology’s Stories vol. 3, no. 3 – doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2015.9.1.01 PDF: Twagira_Interrogating the Machine When I[1] interviewed Mariam “Mamu” Coulibaly in Kankan (Mali, West Africa) about women’s work in the early twentieth century she told me about a labor intensive cooking process that involved farming, collecting and processing spices, pounding grains, and finally combining all those…
More Info
