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Author: aleesteele

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-_Note: Back in August of last year, I wrote a blog that aimed to collect (or at least jumpstart) some personal reflections about Community Management, a year on in my role with The Turing Way. The expectation around that time is that I would be able to write a blog every week, . Clearly, that went out the window! In lieu of that, I wanted to h_
-# Science, Technology and the Societies (Cultures) they create 
+_Back in August of last year, I wrote a blog that aimed to collect (or at least jumpstart) some personal reflections about Community Management, a year on in my role with The Turing Way._
 
-Scientific research is not the same as technological development – their cultures, norms, and practices are different. I gave a talk at the [Data Justice conference](https://zenodo.org/records/8060167) in 2023 about this, which stemmed from my own experience in the ecosystems.
+Scientific research is not the same as technological development – their cultures, norms, and practices are different. But it took me a while to understand this.
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+I first approached this kind of work from the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS). STS is an interdisciplinary field that emerged in [the interwar period](https://sts.hks.harvard.edu/about/whatissts.html) when historians, sociologists, and scientists took a growing interest in understanding how science and technology was influencing society. 
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+When I became a community manager, in many ways, I was guilty of merging the two together. I assumed that scientific practice and technological development were one and the same.
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+I gave a talk at the [Data Justice conference](https://zenodo.org/records/8060167) in 2023 where I tried to tease out these differences, which stemmed from my own experience in the open ecosystem. In many ways, I was trying to understand 
 
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 I gave an updated version of this paradigm later on during that summer, at [['Moving frontiers of the demos: Enfranchisement, youth participation, and digital technologies'](https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/programmes/moving-frontiers-demos-enfranchisement-youth-participation-and-digital-technologies)](https://zenodo.org/records/8063396).
 
+This significantly expanded my framework, describing funding, their roles, and the crises that defined them.
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