Things That Left Me Shook Week Three
To start us off on this wild journey I just want to remind you, dear reader, that I have never been the gr9est at understanding scientific language. Who is STEM? I for one, do not know her. The first article I read did not really help me with understanding what I needed to know about STEM. Now don’t get me wrong, I believe that Donna Haraway has some amazing points it is just that I wish I did not have to study a Prezzi, two YouTube videos, and three summaries to get at the point of her arguement. My high school English teacher would tell me that when someone uses that many SAT words it means they are either a) trying to prove a point or b) just someone obsessed with the ideas of what academic writing should look like. I think academic writing should not be obsessed with writing in fancy English because it has very problematic implications, but that is a blog post for a different class. Harraway’s main arguement was that objectivity, like the limit, doe snot exist and is extremely problematic. Cutcliffe and Mitcham re-emphasize this in their article by pointing out the masculine bias within Science and Technology Studies, and that the traditional view of STS excludes women and strengthens the male connection to STS. When you combine those two aspects of the fake objectivity in science (aka God-trick) with the inherent biases it is very clear that a change must happen.
The big change, plot twist, is actively giving more attention to the feats women have done in the various science fields as well as the female perspecive being included in objectivity (aka Situated Knowledge). No longer marginalizing women and disregarding their perspective seems to be a common theme in all the articles this week, it is almost like women have good ideas and perspectives that help more than hinder. Huh who woulda thought? Situated Knowledge is like objectivity but better and more helpful. It accounts for both the knowledge producer and the object of the study to sit there and basically be not obviously biased towards the male perspective.
The main emotion Ifelt this week was confusion, all the STEM language made me feel like the meme of the white man blinking in shock. I did learn new and interesting tidbits of information that left me shooketh. The fact that the Internet was originally made for military use makes me laugh a little. The internet has definitely one downhill since its creation but hearing about the original intent of the internet reminded me of a program that the government has that keeps tabs on the citizens of the United States. I am not allowed to fully tell you guys what the program is, but what I can say is that you would be surprised at the amount of info a government agent can see on you at any given time. Also, that after working with OPD for as long as I have you can tell a lot about someone based on just one post on Facebook, Insta, and other forms of social media.
Key Words:
1) STS: Science and Technology Studies
2) Situated Knowledge: A better version of objectivity that looks at and takes into consideration the views of the knowledge producer and the object of the study. Also states that basically knowledge can be accepted by everyone no matter what perspective they have.
3) Objectivity: When you are truly independent from biases and other things that would influence your thoughts. It also does not exist and is #fakenews
Bibliography
Culiffe, Stephen H. Et Mitcham, Carl, 2001.”Visions of STS: Counterpoints in Science Technology and Social Studies. State University of New York. Chapter 9.
Haraway, Donna, 1988. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies. 14 (3) 575-599.
The big change, plot twist, is actively giving more attention to the feats women have done in the various science fields as well as the female perspecive being included in objectivity (aka Situated Knowledge). No longer marginalizing women and disregarding their perspective seems to be a common theme in all the articles this week, it is almost like women have good ideas and perspectives that help more than hinder. Huh who woulda thought? Situated Knowledge is like objectivity but better and more helpful. It accounts for both the knowledge producer and the object of the study to sit there and basically be not obviously biased towards the male perspective.
The main emotion Ifelt this week was confusion, all the STEM language made me feel like the meme of the white man blinking in shock. I did learn new and interesting tidbits of information that left me shooketh. The fact that the Internet was originally made for military use makes me laugh a little. The internet has definitely one downhill since its creation but hearing about the original intent of the internet reminded me of a program that the government has that keeps tabs on the citizens of the United States. I am not allowed to fully tell you guys what the program is, but what I can say is that you would be surprised at the amount of info a government agent can see on you at any given time. Also, that after working with OPD for as long as I have you can tell a lot about someone based on just one post on Facebook, Insta, and other forms of social media.
Key Words:
1) STS: Science and Technology Studies
2) Situated Knowledge: A better version of objectivity that looks at and takes into consideration the views of the knowledge producer and the object of the study. Also states that basically knowledge can be accepted by everyone no matter what perspective they have.
3) Objectivity: When you are truly independent from biases and other things that would influence your thoughts. It also does not exist and is #fakenews
Bibliography
Culiffe, Stephen H. Et Mitcham, Carl, 2001.”Visions of STS: Counterpoints in Science Technology and Social Studies. State University of New York. Chapter 9.
Haraway, Donna, 1988. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies. 14 (3) 575-599.
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