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From Alarm to Bogus: Climate Migration Discourse Across German-, Spanish-, and Dutch-Language Twitter/X (2015-2023)
This article examines how climate migration is framed on X, drawing on an initial collection of 335,221 German-, Dutch-, and Spanish-language tweets from 2015, 2019, and 2023, of which 70,110 were retained for analysis. Using BERTopic-based thematic analy
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Toward a Unified Conceptual Framework for Participation Research
Public participation has gained renewed interest amid the recent crises confronting Western democracies, yet scholarly consensus on its fundamental premises remains limited. This theoretical study reconceptualizes participation as a multidimensional commu
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Thailand 5.0? Reimagining the Nation's Digital Future With Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Thailand stands at a critical juncture in Southeast Asia's digital transformation, transitioning from a mobile-first society into an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled economy. Although widespread connectivity and super app ecosystems demonstrate rapid
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Sociotechnical Scale How Dreams Scale Up: Martial Law and the Living Dream of Democracy in South Korea
Dreams of social change make people come together in collective movements. Often, statements like "I have a dream" assume that dreams can be possessed by an individual and that the individual's dream can be "scaled up" to become a collective one. This art
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Sociotechnical Scale "Making Life Multiplanetary": Promise and Imperative of Scaling
Since as early as 2001, the tagline "making life multiplanetary" has been central to Elon Musk's narratives for his space-colonizing ventures. In this article, I show how Musk legitimizes such ventures through the discursive invocations of scale . Across
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Sociotechnical Scale Mediating Urban Futures: Reading Scales at Urban Planning Exhibition Centers
Drawing from observations at two urban planning exhibition centers in China, this article uses the concept of scale to explore how visions of urban futures are communicated to the public and mediated as a technical project to be accomplished through techn
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Sociotechnical Scale Scaling Identity: Venture Capital and Standpoint in Innovation Industries
Venture Capital (VC) is often defined by its ability to scale small, emergent companies into large companies with billion-dollar valuations, also known as "unicorns." Unlike traditional investment types that rely on historical data, VC focuses on emerging
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Sociotechnical Scale "Cute" or "Completely Unhinged?" Making Sense of Pregnancy App Size Comparisons
Pregnancy apps offer size comparison features that mobilize metaphor and measurement to help conceptualize prenatal growth and development. This essay offers a theoretical account of how these scalar mechanisms mediate reproductive knowledge, drawing on a
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Sociotechnical Scale Scales for a Community: How Strava Mediates the Body and Space to Enact Place-Based Imaginaries
This article interrogates how the popular exercise platform Strava uses scale to reconfigure both bodies and places into units of community and commodity. Focusing on the design of Strava's most distinctive feature, the Segment, I analyze how design decis
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