Resilient Technologies, Resilient Knowledge Communities, Resilient Cultures April 28, 2011

28-29 April 2011 at the University of Minnesota
Colloquium on Technology, Culture, and Communication
Practicing Science, Technology, and Rhetoric:
The North-South Divide in an Emerging Global Order

This talk, a conversation with Rick Duque, Isabella Wagner, and Sonja Weber from the University of Vienna, kicks off the two day colloquium. Rick Duque is a professor of Social Studies of Sciences at the University of Vienna, where Wagner and Weber are two of his graduate students. Prof. Duques recent publications include "Gender, ICTs, and Productivity in Low Income Countries: A Panel Study" (with B.P. Miller and W. Shrum, 2010), "Are Mobile Phones Changing Social Networks: A Longitudinal Study of Core Networks In Kerala" (with A. Palackal, P. Mbatia, D. Dzorgbo, M. Ynalvez, and W. Shrum, 2010), "Internet practice and professional networks in Chilean science: dependency or progress" (with W. Shrum, O. Barriga, and G. Henriquez, 2009).

The colloquium will highlight work being done at the University of Minnesota exploring the interdependent and global nature of contemporary science and technology practices. Participants will explore how those who work within institutions of science and/or employ emerging technologies, like (but not limited to) new information and communication technologies (ICTS), frame political, economic, cultural, and environmental arguments about the impacts of their practices on “others". In particular, we will focus on how the diffusion of contemporary science and technology practices plays out in transnational projects that span the divide between countries in the global North and South.

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