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SCIENCE AND THE POLITICS OF HOAX

SCIENCE AND THE POLITICS OF HOAX. SO YOU CAN TURN WATER INTO FUEL?. Sulfikar Amir :: Division of Sociology :: Nanyang Technological University. The Blue Energy: the magic fuel. Energy Minister. State Minister. President Yudhoyono. Transportation Minister. Environment Minister.

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SCIENCE AND THE POLITICS OF HOAX

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  1. SCIENCE AND THE POLITICS OF HOAX SO YOU CAN TURN WATER INTO FUEL? Sulfikar Amir :: Division of Sociology :: Nanyang Technological University

  2. The Blue Energy: the magic fuel

  3. Energy Minister State Minister President Yudhoyono Transportation Minister Environment Minister

  4. Joko Suprapto, “inventor” of the Blue energy

  5. A few months later……….

  6. How has a hoax penetrated into the scientific territory? What does it indicate of the institution of science?

  7. socio-political realms Scientific claim HOAX socio-political realms Scientific claim PROVED FACT STS concepts

  8. Politics of the Artifact

  9. Material and ideological interests produces maintains enhances POWER ARTIFACT Social relations

  10. “Technology as text” Social context ARTIFACT Political text

  11. “Technology as text” Indonesia’s New Democracy “United Indonesia Fuel”

  12. Actor-Network in Technoscience The linkage between interested actors The possibility for technoscientific production Translation and mobilization of resources

  13. Actor-network Symptom Heru Lelono President’s advisor

  14. Competing networks social context informal (back door) network formal (front door) network science decision making political text

  15. Technology of performance Boyle’s air pump as material technology (Shaping and Schaffer, 1985) Gentlemen’s credibility (Shapin, 1995) Modest witness (Haraway, 1997) Science-public relations Performing scientific evidence Public judgment

  16. The blue energy’s public show

  17. the end

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