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Comparative heuristics from an STS perspective: inquiring "novelty" in material practice

Komparative Heuristik aus Sicht der Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung: die Suche nach "Neuheit" in materiellen Praktiken

"This article proposes reconfiguring comparison as a method for innovation studies. It explores how two objects -a media installation and a robotic hand- are configured as novel through a complexity of materialities, stories, and bodies. In focus are small-scale interactions that signify relations between technological objects and their stories. The methodological approach advanced in this article…

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Creator

  • Stubbe, Julian

Subject

  • Sociology & anthropology
  • Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
  • Sociology of Knowledge
  • innovation
  • interaction
  • method
  • ethnography
  • art
  • heuristics
  • comparative research
  • …
  • Art
  • Technique
  • Mass media
  • Robot

Type of item

  • Zeitschriftenartikel