COVID-19

What political economic developments (media industry consolidation or declining investment in community radio, for example) set the stage for COVID communications?

What examples from other disasters are suggestive for thinking about COVID communications?

Research on Research

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I’d like to build perspective on the types of social science research being done on COVID-19 in different settings, reading through...Read more

As COVID-19 has continued to unfold, what research questions have you come to see as especially important? How have you imagined working on them? Would you appreciate collaborators?

COVID-19 COLLABORATION CALL: PROJECT REFLECTIONS & DIRECTIONS

Transnational Disaster STS COVID-19 Collaboration Biographies

How are surveillance tactics and technologies being used and legitimated in response to COVID-19 in different settings? What is debated, normalized, and denounced?

Which social groups are particularly vulnerable and marginalized in different COVID-19 settings? What contributes to and compounds their vulnerability?

Week 12: Asparagus Assemblages

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Guil Louissaint on Haiti

See Guil Louissaint's Somatosphere post, "'Hygiene' is the Future: Lessons from 'Post'-Cholera...Read more

How is COVID-19 unfolding in Haiti?

Transnational STS COVID-19 Project

00 T-D-STS COVID-19 Project: Questions About Places Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Shared Questions

DEUTERO: How could COVID-19 data and data infrastructures be used in the future? How could they affect the ways we understand future crises, disasters, emergencies?

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Itty Abraham's article (2020) on The India Forum...Read more

How is the aftermath of COVID-19 crisis being imagined in different settings? How is this shaping beliefs, practices, and policies?

Transnational STS COVID-19 Project

000 COVID-19: Questions about Governance of Places and Compound Vulnerabilities Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Shared Questions

What COVID-related problems are identified in this commentary and how are they characterized?

May 1: Reading Climate Leviathan

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How are big data and algorithmic tools being used in response to COVID-19 (tracking people and goods, in diagnostic and therapeutic efforts etc), and how does this compare with their use in other pandemics?