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Mar 9 • 16 tweets • 33 min read
🎞️ Our fourth #STSshorts episode is live! 🎙️

We talk with @ashleyshoo about #STS, Technology & Disability, #DisabilityStudies, #technoableism, philosophy of tech, #cripsinspace, amongst other topics.

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@ashleyshoo This is the 4th episode of #STSshorts, a new video series in which we dialogue with a researcher, lecturer, writer, and eclectic human in the #STS discipline or related fields.

~30 mins in length.

The goal is to highlight and hopefully introduce a new audience to their work.
@ashleyshoo Ashley is an assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. (@sts_vt)

liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-an…
@ashleyshoo @sts_vt She is also the Co-Editor-In-Chief of “Techne” (@TechneAnd) the official Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (@SocPhilTech)

pdcnet.org/techne
@ashleyshoo @sts_vt @TechneAnd @SocPhilTech Her “Technology and Disability” course website

techanddisability.com
@ashleyshoo @sts_vt @TechneAnd @SocPhilTech Technoableism, Cyborg Bodies, and #Mars

techanddisability.com/2017/11/11/tec…
@ashleyshoo @sts_vt @TechneAnd @SocPhilTech Ableism, Technoableism, and Future AI paper

ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/90355…
@ashleyshoo @sts_vt @TechneAnd @SocPhilTech Let COVID-19 expand awareness of disability tech

The pandemic’s disruption shows how much academia could learn from the disability community.

nature.com/articles/d4158…
@ashleyshoo @sts_vt @TechneAnd @SocPhilTech We also discussed this Sheri Wells-Jensen piece:
blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/t…
@ashleyshoo @sts_vt @TechneAnd @SocPhilTech And @StationCDRKelly #YearInSpace study with his twin brother:
space.com/nasa-twins-stu…
@ashleyshoo @sts_vt @TechneAnd @SocPhilTech @StationCDRKelly Hosted by Nicholas McCay of #EclecticSpacewalk and a @TUM_STS grad student within the 'Responsibility in Science, Technology, and Society' (#RESETsts) program at Technical University Munich (@TU_Muenchen)

mcts.tum.de/en/programs/ma…
@ashleyshoo @sts_vt @TechneAnd @SocPhilTech @StationCDRKelly @TUM_STS @TU_Muenchen You can find our debut episode with @mapc
here:
@ashleyshoo @sts_vt @TechneAnd @SocPhilTech @StationCDRKelly @TUM_STS @TU_Muenchen @mapc You can find our second episode with @ShobitaP
here:
@ashleyshoo @sts_vt @TechneAnd @SocPhilTech @StationCDRKelly @TUM_STS @TU_Muenchen @mapc @ShobitaP You can find our third episode with @ranjodhd here:

@ashleyshoo @sts_vt @TechneAnd @SocPhilTech @StationCDRKelly @TUM_STS @TU_Muenchen @mapc @ShobitaP @ranjodhd May be of interest: @STS_News @thedeafpoets @WeAreDisabled @astroaccess @BernhardIsopp @MakTakahashi1 @smpfotenhauer @KimTallBear @Ulrike_Felt @buckystanton @catalyst_sts @STSpedagogy @MaraDicenta @NassimParvin @otsuki3c @taollinna @g_mascha @AVastMachine @libshipwreck
@ashleyshoo @sts_vt @TechneAnd @SocPhilTech @StationCDRKelly @TUM_STS @TU_Muenchen @mapc @ShobitaP @ranjodhd @STS_News @thedeafpoets @WeAreDisabled @astroaccess @BernhardIsopp @MakTakahashi1 @smpfotenhauer @KimTallBear @Ulrike_Felt @buckystanton @catalyst_sts @STSpedagogy @MaraDicenta @NassimParvin @otsuki3c @taollinna @g_mascha @AVastMachine @libshipwreck That's a wrap!

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