Dear all,
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<br>Apologies for the longish email request to a listserve.
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<br>Is anyone doing any STS-specific work on monopoly and technoscience? Im
<br>particularly interested in research on Big Tech, or GAFAM, and the notion
<br>that certain technologies are inherently monopolistic, for whatever reason
<br>e.g. network effects. So, analytical work as much as empirical.
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<br>Some people have already suggested work in innovation studies and earlier STS
<br>work on agriculture, but Im interested in more recent research on
<br>digital/data technoscience. Especially, anyone doing work on the techlash.
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<br>I want to extend some of my existing research on technoscience rents e.g.
<br>Technoscience Rent: Toward a Theory of Rentiership for Technoscientific
<br>Capitalism
<br>just published in Science, Technology & Human Values. In this article, I
<br>identify monopoly as a mode of ownership and am now interviewing various
<br>people about tech monopolies.
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<br>Itd be great to hear from others, so please do send anything my way.
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<br>Cheers
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<br>Kean
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<br>Kean Birch
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<br>Graduate Program Director, Science & Technology Studies
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<br>Associate Professor, Department of Geography
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<br>Co-Editor, Science as Culture
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<br>Editorial Board Member, Science,
<br>Technology, & Human Values
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<br>4700 Keele Street
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<br>NEW ARTICLES
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<br>Birch, K. (2020) Technoscience Rent: Toward a Theory of Rentiership for
<br>Technoscientific
<br>Capitalism,
<br>Science, Technology and Human Values 45(1): 3-33 [Open Access].
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<br>Birch, K. (2017) Rethinking value in the bio-economy: Finance, assetization
<br>and the management of
<br>value, Science, Technology and Human Values 42(3):
<br>460-490 [Open Access].
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<br>NEW BOOKS
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<br>Birch, K. and Muniesa, F. (eds) (forthcoming 2020) Assetization: Turning
<br>Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism, MIT Press.
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<br>Birch, K. (2019) Neoliberal
<br>Bio-economies? The Co-construction of Markets &
<br>Natures, Palgrave Macmillan.
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<br>Twitter:
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<br>@keanbirch
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<br>Website: http://www.keanbirch.net/
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