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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 131 - 150 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Science, Technology, & Human Values |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 8 Dec 2022 |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2024 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Abstract
Science and technology studies (STS) practitioners regularly use qualitative research methods to describe the structures and practices of science. Despite a long history of collaborative inter- and transdisciplinary research in the field, key aspects of this type of research remain underexplored. For example, much of the literature on positionality has focused on the vulnerable position of participants and there is considerably less work on how investigators can be vulnerable. We examine how investigators in collaborative sociotechnical integration (CSTI) are vulnerable by presenting two examples of CSTI research that require researcher vulnerability. This vulnerability has an emotional dimension, which also necessitates affective labor. We integrate recommendations from feminist-scholarship to minimize the affective cost to investigators and explore how they might apply to qualitative research more broadly.
Keywords
- affective labor, collaborative sociotechnical integration, integrative research, STS
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)
- Anthropology
- Social Sciences(all)
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Arts and Humanities(all)
- Philosophy
- Social Sciences(all)
- Sociology and Political Science
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
- Economics and Econometrics
- Computer Science(all)
- Human-Computer Interaction
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In: Science, Technology, & Human Values, Vol. 49, No. 1, 01.2024, p. 131 - 150.
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