9 research outputs found
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-sth-10.1177_01622439211052867 - Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-sth-10.1177_01622439211052867 for Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition by Kjetil Rommetveit, Ingrid Foss Ballo and Siddharth Sareen in Science, Technology, & Human Values</p
Making sense of sensing homes: exploring ‘regimes of engagement’ in a smart urban energy context
No full textIngrid Foss Ballo & Kjetil Rommetveit (2024) Urban Geography, 45(4), pp. 691-712 Abstract. Visionary imaginaries of desirable ‘smart’ urban energy futures entice city governments into innovation and collaboration aimed at large-scale urbanism. As part of attending to actualizations and materializations of ‘smart’ urban imaginaries, this paper contributes to moving beyond idealized framings of smart urban publics, towards more embedded reflexive accounts of how ‘real people’ in urban contexts..
Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition
No full textRecent efforts to involve digital technologies and renewables in the electricity grid have placed users at center stage in the legitimation of energy transitions. This move has been paralleled by an emphasis on users and energy practices in social studies of energy related to science and technology studies. This article builds on an eighteen-month Living Lab exploration of energy practices with smart electricity users in Bergen, Norway. We make two interrelated arguments. First, energy production and distribution in Norway and elsewhere is shifting toward greater automation of tasks, possibly bypassing the “active user” concept. Energy sector practices are evolving from simply extracting natural resources (Extraction 1.0) toward extraction of users’ behavioral data (Extraction 2.0), and privacy thus emerges as a key component in the stabilization of energy systems. Second, we reflect on displacements of the roles and possibilities of users (or “energy citizens”) thereby enabled, especially their normative (political and regulatory) aspects. We propose that conceptualization of energy practices be supported by the concept of regimes of engagement from pragmatist sociology. Relatedly, we argue that market, civic, ecological, and industrial regimes are being actively merged through digital innovation and what we call the techno-epistemic network of smart electricity
homes: exploring ‘regimes of engagement’ in a smart urban energy context
No full textVisionary imaginaries of desirable ‘smart’ urban energy futures entice city governments into innovation and collaboration aimed at large-scale urbanism. As part of attending to actualizations and materializations of ‘smart’ urban imaginaries, this paper contributes to moving beyond idealized framings of smart urban publics, towards more embedded reflexive accounts of how ‘real people’ in urban contexts make sense of and reason about smart urban developments. Through a living lab intervention in Bergen, Norway, we open up a space for critical deliberation, to explore situated imaginations and geographies of smart urban futures. We analyse how people reason about their experiences with smart technological devices, expanding on existing practice-oriented urban studies by applying the pragmatic framework of ‘regimes of engagement’. We analyse shifts people make between different regimes of argumentation and justification, showing how participants pragmatically handle their (simultaneous) status as energy consumers, urban citizens, and responsible users in an urban energy grid.publishedVersio
Imagining energy futures: Sociotechnical imaginaries of the future Smart Grid in Norway
No full textA future “Smart Grid” is increasingly being embraced in energy policies as a promising energy scenario for the future, with the introduction of “smart” electricity meters being seen as the first step. In Norway, this process is happening without much public debate. Discussions of complexity and uncertainty related to the future Smart Grid are mainly taking place within a network of actors with recognized expertise. Based on empirical data from interviews and documentary analysis, this paper describes sociotechnical energy imaginaries of a future Smart Grid in a Norwegian context from within this network of experts, which is conceptualized as a techno-epistemic network. The future imaginaries of smart meters and a future Smart Grid are mainly technological and economical, and they are partly permeated by national imaginations. They connect the past and the future by providing solutions for current challenges in the energy supply system, which reflect current institutional and technological structures. The imaginaries also include constructions of the public, or “consumers”, which has implications for the communication to the public. The paper suggests that increased openness and the inclusion of multiple perspectives and ways of knowing, inspired by post-normal science, could facilitate more careful consideration of potential social implications
Public Reasoning in "Post-Truth" Times: Technoscientific Imaginaries of "Smart" Futures
No full textOur current “post-truth” era seems to some extent to be a moment of competing realities, where future imaginations are no longer shared within society. Among the many optimistic narratives and imaginaries of progress, growth, control, and rational order manifesting themselves in contemporary society, those of “smart” abound – especially in relation to technoscience. Although deeply value-laden, desired “smart” futures such as “smart grids” or “smart cities” seem to gain traction and become dominant (or even hegemonic) prospective futures. These constructed “truth regimes” are typically characterised by lack of context and particularity, fuzziness, standardised subjects, and a bracketing of contingency. This chapter presents a critique of such “smart” imaginaries, examining the logics behind them and their role in contemporary society. Some of the ways in which they normatively reduce space for democratic engagement are isolated, but in the end, it is argued that in the contemporary post-truth “times of interregnum”, there is also opportunity for alternative imaginaries that might open up new spaces for public reason to thrive
D5.3 Pathway Studies Report
No full textThis report summaries selected results from empirical studies conducted to provide data and information for a monitoring framework to support open and responsible research and innovation. The final output of this process and the SUPER MoRRI project is an online portal named ‘Platform for the Support of Responsibility and Openness and their Monitoring in Innovation and Science Ecosystems (PROMISE, www.promise4era.eu)
D5.4: Analytical synthesis report of experimental cases
No full textThis deliverable contains descriptions of the results of Task 5.4 and includes a synthesis narrative across the full set of case studies implemented in WP5
D5.5: Policy brief: strengthening open responsible research and innovation
No full textIn this policy brief, SUPER MoRRI results and insights are presented in a concise form, drawing from various studies conducted in the projec
