Futures,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
163, С. 103458 - 103458
Опубликована: Авг. 17, 2024
This
article
draws
on
a
co-design
workshop
with
professionals
working
in
the
field
of
smart
energy
UK,
to
explore
their
imaginaries
homes
and
how
these
are
(in)formed
by
everyday
'lay'
experiences.
Smart
home
technologies
(SHTs)
fundamentally
embedded
future
visions
transitions
as
they
expected
support
actions
tackle
climate
change.
Nevertheless,
literature
adoption
rates
reveal
an
apparent
gap
between
householders'
needs,
expectations,
uses
SHTs,
professional
designers
developers
view
same
technology.
Previous
studies
SHTs
coming
from
industry
experts
have
focused
users
represented
institutional
visions,
however,
routinely
neglect
individual
subjectivities
producing
such
representations.
The
presents
three
core
results
role
digital
futures:
(1)
it
generates
visual
textual
conceptualizations
professionals'
around
domestic
environments;
(2)
identifies
empirical
insights
formative
personal
for
transitions;
(3)
calls
alternative
more
reflexive
practice
envision
fairer
inclusive
future.
Energy Research & Social Science,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
114, С. 103595 - 103595
Опубликована: Май 31, 2024
Limiting
global
warming
to
1.5
°C
is
crucial
prevent
the
worst
effects
of
climate
change.
This
entails
also
decarbonization
aviation
sector,
which
considered
be
a
"hard-to-abate"
sector
and
thus
requires
special
attention
regarding
its
sustainability
transition.
However,
transition
pathways
potentially
climate-neutral
are
unclear,
with
different
stakeholders
having
diverse
imaginations
sector's
future.
paper
aims
analyze
socio-technical
imaginaries
aviation,
as
perceptions
various
on
this
issue
have
not
been
sufficiently
explored
so
far.
In
that
sense,
work
contributes
current
scientific
debate
energy
transitions,
for
first
time
studying
case
sector.
Drawing
six
reports
composed
by
interest
groups
(e.g.
industry,
academia,
environmental
associations),
three
were
explored,
following
process
thematic
analysis:
rethinking
travel
behavioral
change
(travel
innovation),
radical
modernization
technological
progress
(fleet
alternative
fuels
renewable
sources
(fuel
innovation).
The
results
reveal
how
partly
conflicting
co-produced
emergence
enforceability
these
influenced
situatedness
their
creators,
indicating
raises
political
issues.
Essentially,
act
driver
change,
policymakers
should
acknowledge
existence
counter-hegemonic
visions,
created
actors
from
civil
society
settings
take
an
inclusive
equitable
approach
implementing
towards
aviation.
Qualitative Research,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Янв. 12, 2025
Vibes
are
having
a
moment
and
academics
seem
increasingly
serious
about
understanding
whatever
the
vibe
is.
Many
qualitative
methodological
approaches
already
very
vibey.
This
is
especially
true
of
those
that
engage
with
affects
atmospheres,
social
sociotechnical
imaginaries,
materialisms
more-than-human.
In
this
article,
I
reflect
on
these
outline
some
vibes-based
methods.
discuss
how
methods
help
us
consider
work
generative
ambiguities
life.
Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Апрель 28, 2025
The
concept
of
sociotechnical
imaginaries
(SIs)
has
been
widely
used
and
proven
fruitful
to
understand
diverging
trajectories
technologies.
While
scholars
have
acknowledged
the
multi-layered
materialisation
SIs
highlighted
importance
communicative
layer
therein,
this
aspect
remained
under-conceptualised.
Therefore,
we
propose
an
analytical
framework
better
Sociotechnical
Imaginaries
in
Public
Communication
(SIPCs),
defined
as
publicly
constructed
visions
(un)desirable
futures
that
guide
action,
mobilise
resources
lay
out
for
or
prevention
those
futures.
In
article,
first
discuss
relevant
strands
research
on
public
communication.
We
then
SIPCs
enables
rigorous
reconstruction
comparison
mediated
Finally,
illustrate
with
examples
from
communication
about
artificial
intelligence,
emerging
key
technology
contemporary
societies.
