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Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 1 – doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.4.1.04 PDF: Bimm_Notes From the Field Aliens have invaded Roswell. Whether or not you believe a UFO really crashed here in the summer of 1947, what’s readily apparent is that the image of the almond-eyed extraterrestrial is everywhere. Restaurants, motels, liquor stores, gift shops, car dealerships, and…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 5, no. 1 – DOI: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2017.4.1.01 PDF: Drucker_Materializing Gender This essay focuses on the intersection of gender, sexuality, and technology in the use of barrier methods (diaphragms and cervical caps) along with spermicides as contraceptive technologies in the 1930s and 1940s United States. Documents on contraceptive technologies in this era favor doctors’…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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