Stefan Laser

Jun 13, 2023 ∞

Social sciences, ecology and careful digital communication

How can social science research address planetary concerns and be designed carefully? Two recent articles in Science & Technology Studies address this question with a view to different cases: Conference Mobility on the one hand and Decentralized Social Media on the other. Jumping on the bandwagon In Fieldnotes on FlyingLess Conferencing we discuss our different experiences as train travelers to the EASST conference in Madrid. Some of them were long journeys through Europe, including stops.

Nov 20, 2022 ∞

Engagement

Since the end of 2023, I am part of the editorial board of the EASST Review. I was a board member of stsing and contact person of their tech & infrastructure working group, from 2020 until 2023.

Nov 20, 2022 ∞

Interspecies Care

More-than-human research in the aftermath of the Corona crisis, and more.

Jan 20, 2022 ∞

Current Project

My main research theme right now is data centres: their local arrangement, material legacies, building procedures, and global production networks enabling its operation. I have been living and working in Asia-Pacific for a longer period to follow the actors. The study is conducted in the collaborative research centre 1567 Virtual Life Worlds, in subproject A02 led by Estrid Sørensen.

Jan 20, 2022 ∞

Train Infrastructures

Based on my (now concluded) work in the collaborative research centre in Siegen I contribute to the discussion on mobility transitions.

Jan 1, 2022 ∞

Network valuation studies

I am part of the research group On the path to the valuation society? funded by the German Research Foundation. With Emma Greeson and Olli Pyyhtinen, I’ve co-edited a Special Issue on ‘Dis/Assembling Value’. We’ve been meeting for several years and are preparing a handbook on Valuation and Society (Routledge).

Jan 1, 2022 ∞

Ethnography

My central methodological competence: participant observation, immersion, following materials, expert knowledge and situated practices.