Planning story lines in smart grid road maps (2010–2014): three types of maps for coordinated time travel

Berker, Thomas; Throndsen, William

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2016.1207159

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“…Less attention has been given to mundane forms of engagement with decentralized technologies often located close to or within the domestic sphere. However, such technologies will likely be central in future energy systems ( Berker and Throndsen, 2017 ; Parag and Sovacool, 2016 ). Hence, understanding the forms of participation and engagement produced by collectives of humans and these technologies is a key research challenge in the years ahead.…”

Section: Theoretical Perspectives On the Role Of The Public In Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating energy citizenship through material participation

2018

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Transitions towards low-carbon energy systems will be comprehensive and demanding, requiring substantial public support. One important contribution from STS is to highlight the roles of citizens and public engagement. Until recently, energy users have often been treated as customers and passive market actors, or as recipients of technology at the margins of centralized systems. With respect to the latter role, critical or hesitant public action has been explained in terms of NIMBYism and knowledge deficits. This article focuses on the production of energy citizenship when considering public participation in low-carbon energy transitions. We draw upon the theory of ‘material participation’ to highlight how introducing and using emergent energy technologies may create new energy practices. We analyze an ongoing introduction of new material objects, highlighting the way these technologies can be seen as material interventions co-constructing temporalities of new and sustainable practices. We argue that artefacts such as the electric car, the smart meter and photovoltaic panels may become objects of participation and engagement, and that the introduction of such technologies may foster material participation and energy citizenship. The paper concludes with a discussion about the role of policies for low-carbon energy transitions on the making of energy citizenship, as well as limits of introducing a materially based energy citizenship.

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Section: Theoretical Perspectives On the Role Of The Public In Energymentioning

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2018

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“…Barker & Smith 1995;Kostoff & Schaller, 2001;Phaal et al, 2004), and have gone through constant evolution (Phaal et al, 2009). Despite their variability reflecting different contexts of use, there is a key gap in the discussion on technology roadmaps in political contexts (Berker & Throndsen, 2017). Sociology of expectations has been closing the gap by paying special attention to technology roadmaps as there is the ideologically anchored notion that technology will continue to offer possibilities for progress (cf.…”

Section: Studying Technology Roadmaps In Policy Discoursementioning

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“…A perspective from middle-range is provided by Berker and Throndsen (2017), who perceive roadmap as a product of negotiation of the future, where the resulting 'story' is a compromise between different anticipations. In other words, actors (also institutions) need to establish at least some rudimentary storyline to be able to provide a sense of direction (Berker & Throndsen, 2017, p. 215).…”

Section: Technology Roadmaps As Systematic Metaphors In Discoursementioning

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“…In contrast to studies focusing on explicit technology roadmaps (cf. Phaal et al, 2004 and2009;Kostoff & Schaller, 2001;Verbong & Geels, 2010;McDowall, 2012), this study deals with roadmapping as a metaphorical pattern and narrative structure (Rip, 2012;Berker & Throndsen, 2017). I suggest studying roadmapping discourse in the institutional setting, where relative consensus about nanotechnology has been reached.…”

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Technology Roadmaps, Innovation Journeys, and Nanoworld: A Spatio-temporal Consolidation of the EC Nanotechnology Policy

Kotlik

2018

Central European Journal of Public Policy

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Technology roadmaps have become an essential part of the European Commission’s (EC) nanotechnology policy strategies. They represent socio-technical landscapes and evolving pathways, suggesting the underlying or otherwise supportive metaphorical patterns and narrative structures. For the same reason, however, roadmaps are problematic assemblages: they can simplify and distort reality, and filter things that don’t fit. The presented study combines cognitive linguistics with narratology to scrutinise the European Commission’s nanotechnology roadmapping as a discursive formation. It targets the systematic metaphors in approximately two-hundred news and reports on nanotechnology, compiled ad hoc from the CORDIS database (between the years 1999–2015). It is argued that the identified metaphors correspond to a discourse topology of ‘locations’, ‘events’, and their structures, especially as regards to the dilemma of ‘path dependence’, overcoming ‘knowledge gaps’, and reaching ‘nanoworld’. These are accompanied by a narrative climax of developing mature science policy model, in the arrangement of actions and roles for the European governments, science (nanotechnology), policy, and the public. The study demonstrates how systematic metaphors engage all the actors in the narrative of ‘innovation journey’ to form stabilised structures of meaning, that is, spatio-temporal consolidation of nanotechnology policy. It is imperative to continuously assess the context of such consolidation, being less overt but not necessarily less effective, in privileging some meanings, interests, and practices over the others, thereby excluding other political alternatives.

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“…As an important part of the global economy, the tourism industry is always looking for innovative ways to enhance the tourist experience. Traditional tourism path planning mostly relies on expert knowledge and experience, which may not be able to fully consider individual differences and real-time dynamics [7][8][9]. The utilization of social media data offers the possibility of personalized and dynamic tourism path planning.…”

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Design and Planning of Tourism Path Based on Social Media Sharing Data Mining

Huang,

Pan,

Yan

2024

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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In recent years, along with the rapid development of artificial intelligence, big data and social media, informatization in the tourism industry also shows an explosive trend. This paper constructs a tourism path planning system based on data mining technology and the selection method of the optimal path. The GS algorithm is used to optimize the SVM algorithm to form the GS-SVM fusion algorithm, which makes the tourism path planning and predicts the optimal path according to the specific conditions of the journey, the characteristics of the scenic spot itself, and the tourists’ needs. After testing, this system has a good prediction performance on the traffic accessibility, attraction congestion and crowd change of scenic tour path. It is found that the transportation accessibility of scenic tour paths is positively correlated with tourists’ experience. In addition, in the experiment on the advantages and disadvantages of tourism paths, the passage time of paths 14, 15 and 16 is more than 3 minutes. Still, the actual length of these three paths is not more than 350m, which indicates that there are things for tourists to visit and experience on the passage paths, thus lengthening the passage time. This shows that the system provides real-time and reference paths for tourists by mining social media sharing data.

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Planning story lines in smart grid road maps (2010–2014): three types of maps for coordinated time travel

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

Creating energy citizenship through material participation

Creating energy citizenship through material participation

Technology Roadmaps, Innovation Journeys, and Nanoworld: A Spatio-temporal Consolidation of the EC Nanotechnology Policy

Design and Planning of Tourism Path Based on Social Media Sharing Data Mining

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