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Neuralink’s brain-computer interfaces: medical innovations and ethical challenges
March of 2025 saw the release of Neuralink’s brain-computer interfaces: medical innovations and ethical challenges, authored by Andrea Lavazza, Michela Balconi, Marcello Ienca, Francesca Minerva, Federico Gustavo Pizzetti, Massimo Reichlin, Francesco Samorè, Vittorio A. Sironi, Marta Sosa Navarro and Sarah Songhorian. The article appears in the open access publication Frontiers in Human Dynamics, and is part of a series of 10 articles that appear in a collection ... Neuralink’s brain-computer interfaces: medical innovations and ethical challenges
2025 3mn
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Looking Back on 2024
IN MEMORY OF ANDREINA BASSETTI Through her profound civic spirit, Andreina Rocca Bassetti gained esteem and affection from all of those who had the pleasure to meet her. The work of the Bassetti Foundation (which she co-founded with her brother Piero Bassetti) is both a reflection and result of her dedication, and we endeavor to ... Looking Back on 2024
2025 5mn
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Opportunities in digital transformation, organizing and STS at the IT University of Copenhagen
IT University of Copenhagen invite applicants who can contribute to strengthening the IT University’s research and teaching in how digital technologies affect organising and organisational transformations, for instance how AI or new data management practices engender changes in public institutions, NGOs or private companies. The candidates need to have a background in qualitative humanities or social ... Opportunities in digital transformation, organizing and STS at the IT University of Copenhagen
2025 1mn
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Responsible Innovation Lectures at Leiden University
On Thursday 5th and Monday 9th of December (2024), Bassetti Foundation correspondent Jonathan Hankins brought discussion about responsible innovation and sociotechnical imaginaries to Leiden University Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, as part of its Social Theories undergraduate course. Here his report: In December of 2024 I was given the opportunity to discuss responsible ... Responsible Innovation Lectures at Leiden University
2024 4mn
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Performance Lecture at the International School Utrecht
The Bassetti Foundation recently continued its long-term collaboration with the International School Utrecht as on 23 October Jonathan Hankins delivered a Performance Lecture about sociotechnical imaginaries during a Diploma Years TOK (theory of Knowledge) lesson. The Foundation and the school have been collaborating since 2018, when topics under discussion were ‘the driverless society’ and developments ... Performance Lecture at the International School Utrecht
2024 2mn
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New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness
Long-time Bassetti Foundation collaborator Cristina Grasseni recently presented a paper at the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) conference in Barcelona, held between 18-26 July. The conference theme was ‘Doing and Undoing with Anthropology’, with Grasseni participating in a full-day panel entitled New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness convened by Joost ... New directions in the anthropology of entrepreneurship: beyond social embeddedness
2024 9mn
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Call for application for the Twelfth Annual Winter School on Emerging Technologies
Call for application for the Twelfth Annual Winter School on Emerging Technologies: Accelerating Impactful Scholarship. The Twelfth Annual Winter School on Emerging Technologies: Accelerating Impactful Scholarship is supported by National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure and takes place from January 3-10, 2025 at Saguaro Lake Ranch in Mesa, Arizona. The Winter School provides junior scholars and scientists ... Call for application for the Twelfth Annual Winter School on Emerging Technologies
2024 2mn
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NOvation. A Position Paper from René von Schomberg
NOvation. Critical Studies of Innovation As is tradition at the Bassetti Foundation, in this article we propose a little ‘light’ reading for the summer break. The latest edition of NOvation is a special issue that opens with a position paper by René von Schomberg entitled Towards a New Ethos of Science or a Reform of ... NOvation. A Position Paper from René von Schomberg
2024 6mn
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Longevity: Now Available in Cans!
Longevity: Now Available in Cans! A Performance Lecture Approach to Addressing Longevity Issues from A Responsible Innovation Perspective is the latest research article from Bassetti Foundation collaborators Jonathan and Angelo Hankins. The publication appears in Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and innovation, and is the result of a call for papers focusing on longevity and ... Longevity: Now Available in Cans!
2024 4mn
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Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives
Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives from Giovanna Mascheroni and Andra Siibak is dedicated to describing and critiquing practices of datafication that sustain what Shoshana Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism. Datafication is described as both an outcome and an intensifier of deep mediatization: an outcome, as almost all social action and interaction is ... Datafied Childhoods: Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives
2024 5mn
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Researcher Position at AIT
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is seeking to fill a vacancy for an experienced researcher at its Center for Innovation Systems and Policy. AIT is Austria’s largest applied public research organization, with its Center for Innovation Systems and Policy doing research and advising national and regional authorities as well as European institutions on matters of ... Researcher Position at AIT
2024 1mn
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Glocalism. Ten Years of Culture, Politics and Innovation
To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, Piero Bassetti (President of the Bassetti Foundation and Globus and Locus) and Davide Cadeddu (Editor in Chief of Glocalism) have edited an open access collection of articles for publication through Milan University Press. In the editorial that precedes this collection, Bassetti, Cadeddu ... Glocalism. Ten Years of Culture, Politics and Innovation
2024 5mn
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