technoskepticism – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Currently reading Winner (1980) on “Do artifacts have politics?”

mglessmer — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:05:28 +0000

Recently on Bluesky, I came across a post by Bo Thomson who wrote about the article I am summarising below “I frequently had students ask “Why are we reading this in a class on …?” My answer was always the same: One day your choice of how to select, develop, or use a technology may […]

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Reading Pleasants et al. (2023, 2024) on technoskepticism

mglessmer — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:37:33 +0000

Our experience with how students argue in the Climate Fresk serious game is that they often jump to technical solutions to climate change right away and are unwilling to even entertain the thought of any other approach. Someone will invent something, and that will fix everything (false hope that does not lead to action, as […]

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