<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div style="overflow:hidden auto;padding-bottom:16px;padding-top:16px"><div style="width:432.373px;display:flex;min-height:32px;padding-right:16px;box-sizing:border-box;outline:none"><div id="m_-5733265836471525664gmail-xDetDlgDesc" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-size:0.875rem;line-height:1.25rem;padding-bottom:6px;padding-top:6px;overflow:hidden auto;font-variant-ligatures:no-contextual;font-feature-settings:"liga" 0;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0px">Hey everyone, <br><br>We're pleased that <b>Pelle Tracey (Information, UW Seattle)</b> is the host of our first<b> First Monday STSS Reading Group</b> of 2026! Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 | 12:30 - 1:20 PM | Zoom link below<br><br>We're reading: <br><br>Birch, Kean. “Do Artifacts Have Political Economy?” Science, Technology, & Human Values, SAGE Publications Inc, August 4, 2025, 01622439251352167. <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=Https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439251352167&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw0Ts7tp1iJKqBrAgMG1YCwB" style="color:rgb(11,87,208)" target="_blank">Https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439251352167</a> | Attached<br><br>It's in conversation with science and technology studies political theorist Langdon Winner's influential 1980 article, "Do artifacts have politics?" (Spoiler: he argues they do, in two ways). <br><br>In Pelle's words, here's why this matters now: <br><br>"The relationship between political economy and technoscience is important for many present concerns. This is perhaps most obvious in the case of generative AI and the data center building boom, but also in other contexts. For instance, in my own work, the question of if/how proptech/landlordtech are impacting the housing crisis also involves the intersections of political economy and technoscience, in the interactions between landlords, developers, and platform companies."<br><br>How do the political economies of artifacts matter to your research? <br><br>Join us to discuss this, the article by Kean Birch, and more.

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