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Objective: we aim to understand Instagram's sociotechnical role in the modest fashion market in Brazil, proposing a theoretical-empirical model to analyze this social media as a market-thinking infrastructure. Theoretical framework: the research is based on market-thinking infrastructure studies recently incorporated into the marketing area. Method: in this research, two techniques were used for data collection: (a) semi-structured and indepth interviews with 27 agents of the modest fashion market and (b) nonparticipant observation on Instagram. Results: the results demonstrate that Instagram offers an infrastructure that mediates and standardizes interactions between market actors, allowing the construction of the modest fashion market, once seen as stigmatized. Instagram's infrastructure establishes rules that will dictate users' (market actors) success (or exercised power) in the network and, consequently, in the market. Although it is impossible to carry out monetary transactions through Instagram in Brazil, it offers various material devices that encourage economic exchanges. Conclusions: this study contributes to the market-thinking infrastructures literature by showing how the standardization designed to "neutralize the network's power of agency" in users' actions ends up having the opposite effect, (re)affirming its political and symbolic elements. Instagram can be considered a democratic space if its users understand and apply its neoliberals rules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Injustice in energy transitions is a problem perceived in the inequity of participation in decision-making among the actors that shape socio-technical energy systems, where society usually plays the role of end user within the system network. The importance of taking it into consideration lies in the fact that this inequity can contribute to low social acceptance and lack of public confidence in the energy transition process, which is essential to define the course of the process. Through a qualitative study with an exploratory scope, the objective of this article is to study the perception of citizens as actors in the energy transition process from a procedural justice approach, and to contribute to the research of social study of energy through the social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cable cars are analyzed as an innovative modality of public transport through the sociotechnical approach. Analytical categories of the Dutch current of technological transitions and socio-technical alliances proposed by Latin American authors are used, the case of the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico is studied. The research aims to explain the construction of sociotechnical trajectories in the case of an urban cable car and the degree of interactions between relevant public and private actors. Latin America has been at the forefront in the implementation of cable cars for public transport in big cities. Although cable car technology is imported, its implementation has involved organizational, institutional and infrastructure innovations that aim to analyze comparing the different lines of the Mexican megalopolis. We obtained, from the theoretical approaches proposed, the description of the landscape, the regime and the level of innovation niche. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-l9 altered the relative importance of the sustainability of the business socio-technical system and the public sector. This article evaluates the change experienced in the media representation of the sustainability of IBEX-35 companies during two sub-periods. On the one hand, the two years before and after the declaration of the State of Alarm are analyzed. The search was carried out in Factiva® for all the countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The results suggest a change in the discourse of the largest Spanish companies by capitalization and a greater sectoral and institutional transversality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hernán Thomas--a well-known figure in Science and Technology Studies (STS) in Latin America--talks about his academic career and some of the questions that drive his research. In this interview, he narrates his encounter with STS--which was marked by the aspiration to create a space of reflection and intervention around technology an incipient field in Latin American academia. When asked "How can we forge paths to development using technologies for social inclusion in Latin America?", Thomas adopts a broad perspective. He relates the persistence of a hegemonic thought that reproduces the models of dependency, with their manifestation in scientific production evaluation focused on publication in international journals. This contributes to build a scientific field in line with central countries' research agendas, while constructing sociotechnical systems that detach technologists from local problems. In the face of this diagnosis, Thomas holds that theory is necessary, but insufficient. Plans and strategies should be designed to integrate production and artifacts with their technoeconomic macrostructures. Forging a path of inclusive technologic development requires a counter-hegemonic vision that would enable more egalitarian and free futures for the Global South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the contemporary context of public health, information and communication technologies, known as eHealth, have become a first-hand tool to carry out interventions for the population. Despite the boom, its effectiveness is often unknown. In this sense, literature on methods and approaches used in biomedical technologies to assess the digital technological impact has begun to be imported. However, eHealth incorporates qualities of its digital nature that represent new challenges in the social and technical relationships it establishes with the environment. This raises the question of what would be the particular characteristics of a comprehensive assessment of these interventions. To that end, scientific database publications were reviewed between 2010 and 2017 on health information technology assessment to analyze the characteristics to consider when evaluating eHealth interventions. From 520 articles identified, three models were selected that presented a broad perspective for eHealth assessment beyond impact. Although different in their epistemic stances, they included different domains of interventions: technological, social, economic, political and sanitary, with a broader perspective than the traditional biomedical assessment. However, the models still instrumentalize the relationship between technology and society/context and leave gaps in how to operationalize them on the ground. This work seeks to become a document of reference and reflection for designers and/or evaluators of information technologies in health, with a final recommendation: not everything that shines is gold, and sometimes gold doesn't even shine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the historical configuration of the Chilean energy matrix throughout the twentieth century and understands it as the result of the relative expansion and decline of three interdependent socio-technical regimes: coal, petroleum and electricity. For each of these regimes the article studies the techno-political definitions that guided its development. These definitions were represented as "problems" by the elites of an ideological, social or economic nature, which should be resolved by the State and the private sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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