To predict the uses of new technology, we present an approach grounded in science and technology studies (STS) that examines the social uses of current technology. As part of ongoing research on next-generation mobile imaging applications, we conducted an empirical study of the social uses of personal photography. We identify three: memory, creating and maintaining relationships, and self-expre...

This panel explores the value of institutional theory in understanding ‘virtualization (in its varieties of meanings) and the impact on work practices, organizations and society.’ In 2001, Orlikowski and Barley made an initial appeal in this direction suggesting that IS research could benefit from institutional theory and that organization theory could also learn from IS research in taking the ...

The papers in this forum on Spaces and Politics of Aesthetics share a concern with analyzing relationships between politics aesthetics ways that question humanist, anthropocentric logics underpinning dominant aesthetic regimes power. They do so by foregrounding more-than-human materialities critical analyses race colonial In introduction, we begin routing debates around spaces through post-huma...

In this paper we propose an operative social theory that eliminates the need for a pre-defined regional context or spatio-temporal entities like system, culture, society ethnic group. The archaeological object in microarchaeological approach is not closed and homogeneous totality, but rather structurating practices, regulative actions operating field ofhumans things. order to address these issu...

In this article, we examine detainee experiences of dignity in police detention through the lens materiality. To do this, draw on sociological and anthropological literature ‘material turn’ its application to criminal justice settings, a mixed-methods study custody England Wales. First, conceptualise different dimensions materiality custody. Second, show how some forms materiality, conjunction ...

Discourse analysis has come to represent something of a ‘growth industry’ in both research and critical psychology. Despite the apparent indebtedness of many such methods of discourse analysis to Foucault, there exists no strictly Foucauldian method of analysing discourse. Through a close reading of Foucault's ‘The order of discourse’ (1981), this paper re-characterizes the concept of discourse...

Security has come to embody a self-evident and much sought-after kind of good, colonise imaginaries, debates, policies, large swathes what social life means in various corners the world. Echoing postcolonial calls for decentring that which is taken granted, my essay seeks provincialise security three distinct ways. Drawing on research securitisation Roma Italy, first, I trace transformation ter...