Chair and discussant for panel Art, Science & Technology Studies: Infrastructures & Institutions at the Annual Meeting for the Social Studies of Science (4S) held virtually from Toronto, Canada October 2021.
Author: stephjordan
Research consultant, community organizer and educator in environmental justice and tech advocacy.
On Refusal. Labor Tech Research Network, 2021.
Full transcript to be published in REFUSE: A Journal of Iconoclasms. Forthcoming, 2022. INTRODUCTION TRANSCRIPT This panel was built in parallel with the building of the Labor Tech Research Network as a 501(c)3 nonprofit. So congratulations to all of us! And congratulations to Winnie Poster for her hard work! As we began imagining, and manifesting…
Catch My DRIFT: A Compendium of Recovering Instruments At Sea
Got a call in the middle of the night, convinced your best friend to drive her truck 5 hours into the sunrise, convinced a local surfer to let you use their standing board, pulled some straps out of the back of the truck, paddled out to sea, grabbed a glider, strapped it to the board…
Sustainability in Marine Technoscience
Insights after a decade of investment into programs like the Ocean Observatories Initiative brightly illuminated that some of the most significant barriers to forward progress in the fields of climate and ocean science are challenges of calibration, maintenance, and quality control of sensors. Ocean engineering is engaged in an ongoing race to improve batteries, paints,…
Queerpocene Ecofeminist Research Group
This interdisciplinary research group provides support for queer ecology, ecofeminist and environmentalist research at Michigan State University. Core Members: Ellen McCallum, English Stephanie Jordan, Media + Information stef shuster, Lyman Briggs, Sociology Wenda Bauschpies, NSF, Center for Gender in a Global Context
CV
Below you will find my abridged resume (top) and full CV (last updated in Spring 2025).
The Net Work: Amanda Thackray’s Quasi-Fictional Water Worlds. NJCU.
Jordan, S.B. (2021). The Net Work: Amanda Thackray’s Quasi-Fictional Water Worlds. Surface Tension, NJCU. Featured essay in artists’ catalog of Amanda Thackray’s work, Surface Tension. More info here .
Structure and Fluidity: An Exercise in Human Intervention in the Sea. Rejoinder.
Jordan, S.B and Thackray, A.J. (2021). Structure and Fluidity: An Exercise in Human Intervention in the Sea. Ed. Sarah Tobias. Rejoinder, 6. The following is an excerpt from an ongoing experimental artistic practice in service of new thinking around water, climate crisis and safer futures, where environmental, social and design justice are inextricably bound. Focusing…
Labor Tech Research Network
Founding board member and active member of the Social Justice Working Group of the Labor Tech Research Network, formally established as a 501c3 non-profit in 2021, an international and interdisciplinary group of 300 plus leading scholars of labor and technological change. Banner image description: web page with a white background for the Labor Tech Research…
The Instrumented Ocean
This ethnographic project collected interviews and observations inside the groundbreaking US Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The work is contextualized via archival and historiographic resources from oceanographic institutions, professional societies and historians of ocean science. The research fundamentally addresses the concomitant relationship between innovation (e.g. imagining, planning, constructing, operating) and degeneration (e.g. down-scaling, breakdown, failure, repair)….
Stephanie Beth Jordan 
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