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Overview

Mike Michael is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences with a focus on sociology and political science, human-computer interaction, gender studies, and urban studies. The scholar's work engages with various subfields including political science and international relations, exploring topics that intersect technology, society, and environment.

Their main research topics include:

  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation

Mike Michael has contributed to a range of academic venues, often publishing in journals that address social studies, media, and technology. The frequent publication venues are:

  • Media International Australia
  • Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
  • Social Studies of Science
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Anthropology Today

Recent notable papers by Mike Michael include:

  • "Enacting intimacy and sociality at a distance in the COVID-19 crisis: the sociomaterialities of home-based communication technologies," 2020, Media International Australia
  • "The COVID digital home assemblage: Transforming the home into a work space during the crisis," 2021, Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
  • "London's fatbergs and affective infrastructuring," 2020, Social Studies of Science
  • "Plastic possibilities: Contrasting the uses of plastic 'waste' in India," 2021, Anthropology Today
  • "The aesthetics of more-than-human design: speculative energy briefs for the Chthulucene," 2023, Human-Computer Interaction

Their collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Alex Wilkie (14 joint works)
  • Hannah Farrimond (4 joint works)
  • Ash Watson (3 joint works)
  • Deborah Lupton (3 joint works)
  • Dimitris Papadopoulos (2 joint works)

In addition to articles, Mike Michael has published a book titled Ecological Reparation in 2023, available through Bristol University Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • A Sociology of Expectations: Retrospecting Prospects and Prospecting Retrospects.

    Nik Brown;Mike Michael

  • Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change

    Mike Michael

  • Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature: From Society to Heterogeneity

    Mike Michael

  • Science, Social Theory and Public Knowledge

    Alan Irwin;Mike Michael

  • Actor-Networks and Ambivalence: General Practitioners in the UK Cervical Screening Programme

    Vicky Singleton;Michael Michael

  • Actor-Network Theory: Trials, Trails and Translations

    Mike Michael

  • The sacrifice : how scientific experiments transform animals and people

    Lynda I. A. Birke;Arnold Arluke;Mike Michael

  • “What Are We Busy Doing?”: Engaging the Idiot

    Mike Michael

  • Technoscience And Everyday Life: The Complex Simplicities of the Mundane

    Mike Michael

  • Lay Discourses of Science: Science-in-General, Science-in-Particular, and Self

    Mike Michael

  • Publics performing publics: Of PiGs, PiPs and politics

    Mike Michael

  • These Boots Are Made for Walking...: Mundane Technology, the Body and Human-Environment Relations

    Mike Michael

  • Comprehension, Apprehension, Prehension: Heterogeneity and the Public Understanding of Science:

    Mike Michael

  • Ethical boundary‐work in the embryonic stem cell laboratory

    Steven P. Wainwright;Clare Williams;Mike Michael;Bobbie Farsides

  • From bench to bedside? Biomedical scientists' expectations of stem cell science as a future therapy for diabetes.

    Steven P. Wainwright;Clare Williams;Mike Michael;Bobbie Farsides

  • On the Shoulders of Idiots: Re-thinking Science Communication as ‘Event’

    Maja Horst;Mike Michael

  • Between citizen and consumer: multiplying the meanings of the “public understanding of science”

    Mike Michael

  • Accumulation : the material politics of plastic

    Jennifer Gabrys;Mike Michael

  • On Making Data Social: Heterogeneity in Sociological Practice

    Mike Michael

  • Speculative method and Twitter: Bots, energy and three conceptual characters

    Alex Wilkie;Mike Michael;Matthew Plummer-Fernandez

  • From authority to authenticity: the changing governance of biotechnology

    Nik Brown;Mike Michael

Frequent Co-Authors

Clare Williams
Clare Williams Brunel University London
Deborah Lupton
Deborah Lupton University of New South Wales
John Imrie
John Imrie University of the Witwatersrand
Ian Kerridge
Ian Kerridge University of Sydney

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