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Sub-theme 39:

Unsettling Technology and Accountability

 

Convenors:

Elena Simakova
Cornell University (USA)
es537@cornell.edu

Catelijne Coopmans
National University of Singapore
soccc@nus.edu.sg

Steve Woolgar
Said Business School Oxford & University of Oxford (UK)
steve.woolgar@sbs.ox.ac.uk


 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30

Chair: Steve Woolgar

Convenors
Welcome and introductions

Graham Button
Designing technology to be accountable
Commentator: Daniel Neyland

Catelijne Coopmans
Materiality, accountability and the politics of expertise: A comparative analysis
Commentator: Attila Bruni
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30

Chair: Catelijne Coopmans

Ian Graham and Nils Markusson
Accounting for carbon
Commentator: Eleni Lamprou

Rita Samiolo
Accounting for infrastructure and technologies of calculation: The controversy over the economic and environmental appraisal of the flood protection scheme in Venice
Commentator: Rolland Munro

Steve Woolgar and Daniel Neyland
Disruption, breakdown and resistance: Technologies of mundane governance
Commentator: Signe Vikkelsø
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30

Chair: Elena Simakova

Matthew Smith, Aaron Martin and Merel Noorman
A critical consideration of e-government and accountability
Commentator: Nils Markusson

Eleni Lamprou and Haridimos Tsoukas
Restoring transparency in accountability within technological change in organizations
Commentator: Rita Samiolo

Steen Vallentin
CSR as governmentality
Commentator: Brian Rappert
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30

Chair: Catelijne Coopmans

Rolland Munro
The motility of accounts: Power and the proliferation of management technologies
Commentator: Claes-Fredrik Helgesson

Daniel Neyland
Techno-fixes and the Werewolf
Commentator: Hannes Günter

Brian Rappert
Scepticism and imagination: Alternative strategies for thinking about the accountability of technology
Commentator: Steve Woolgar
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45

Chair: Daniel Neyland

Elena Simakova
Technology, accountability and specificity: A "nano" case
Commentator: Steen Vallentin

Daniel Boos, Hannes Günter and Gudela Grote
Internet of things – Designing accountability towards an unknown audience?
Commentator: Enrico Maria Piras
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30

Chair: Catelijne Coopmans

Claes-Fredrik Helgesson
From dirty data to scientific evidence: Some practices used to render large randomised clinical trials accountable
Commentator: Ian Graham

Signe Vikkelsø
Amalgamated accountability and information infrastructures
Commentator: Aaron Martin
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45

Chair: Elena Simakova

Enrico Maria Piras and Alberto Zanutto
The (opaque) work of being a patient: Aligning citizens to health care systems
Commentator: Graham Button

Attila Bruni
Unsettling organizational safety: Work practices, technological artefacts and accountability processes in a sanitary organization
Commentator: Daniel Boos


Wrap-up Discussion; Closing

 

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