Direct engagement
直接探討
Works that directly use or discuss sociotechnical imaginaries.
直接運用或討論社會技術想像的研究。
Yang, C. Y., Szerszynski, B., & Wynne, B. (2018). The making of power shortage: The sociotechnical imaginary of nationalist high modernism and its pragmatic rationality in electricity planning in taiwan. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 12(3), 277-308.
Shows how electricity planning made power shortage a public fact through calculations, indicators, and a nationalist high-modernist vision of development.
說明電力規劃如何透過計算、指標與國族主義式極度現代主義的發展願景，將缺電建構為公共事實。
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Wu, C. L., Ha, J. O., & Tsuge, A. (2020). Data reporting as care infrastructure: assembling ART registries in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 14(1), 35-59.
Compares ART registries to show that data reporting becomes care infrastructure only when professional reflection and public-health action turn records into better practice.
比較輔助生殖登錄制度，指出資料通報唯有經由專業反思與公共衛生行動轉化為實作，才能成為照護基礎設施。
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Hsu, J. Y. (2018). Hsinchu technopolis: A sociotechnical imaginary of modernity in Taiwan?. Critical Sociology, 44(3), 487-501.
Reads Hsinchu Science Park as an imagined modern Taiwan, tracing how semiconductors, planned space, and regional inequalities shaped a technopolis.
將新竹科學園區視為被想像的現代臺灣，追蹤半導體、規劃空間與區域不平等如何共同形塑科技都市。
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Lin, L. F. (2026). Manufacturing Plus: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Interpretative Flexibility, and the Ascent of Taiwan’s Semiconductor Foundry Model. In Technological Humanities: Essays in Honor of Ronald R. Kline (pp. 155-186). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Examines how a high-tech national imaginary and interpretative flexibility elevated Taiwan's pure-play foundry model as "manufacturing plus."
探討高科技國族想像與詮釋彈性如何將臺灣專業晶圓代工模式提升為「製造加值」。
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Chung, H. F. (2026). Betting on (un) certain futures: Sociotechnical imaginaries of AI and varieties of techno-developmentalism in Asia. Information, Communication & Society, 29(3), 909-926.
Compares AI strategies in Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, showing how techno-developmentalism makes different national futures plausible under geopolitical uncertainty.
比較新加坡、臺灣與香港的人工智慧策略，說明科技發展主義如何在地緣政治不確定下使不同國族未來顯得可行。
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Huang, J. T., & Wang, C. H. (2023). Water infrastructure and the imaginary of unfinished urban modernity in Taiwan. The Professional Geographer, 75(2), 278-287.
Explains how drinking-water infrastructure and public demonstrations perform an unfinished urban modernity while obscuring longer-term maintenance and pollution problems.
說明飲用水基礎設施與公開展演如何展現未完成的都市現代性，同時遮蔽長期維護與污染問題。
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Rudek, T. J., & Huang, H. T. (2023). Future at play: Applying Reflexive Public Reason in the case of Taiwanese energy transition. Energy Research & Social Science, 106, 103325.
Uses Reflexive Public Reason to map competing energy futures in Taiwan, including green technological modernity, nuclear stability, and community energy.
運用反思性公共推理描繪臺灣競爭中的能源未來，包括綠色科技現代性、核能穩定與社區能源。
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相關對話
Works that inform the theme through connected questions of collective futures, infrastructure, and development.
透過集體未來、基礎設施與發展等相連問題，為本主題提供對話的研究。
Tsai, Y. Y., & Lee, W. J. (2021). An imagined future community: Taiwan Biobank, Taiwanese genome, and nation-building. BioSocieties, 16(1), 88-115.
Shows how the Taiwan Biobank assembled genomic science, biotechnology policy, and an imagined future community for nation-building.
說明臺灣人體生物資料庫如何將基因科學、生技政策與被想像的未來共同體連結於國族建構。
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Perng, S. Y. (2019). Anticipating digital futures: ruins, entanglements and the possibilities of shared technology making. Mobilities, 14(4), 418-434.
Considers how shared technology making can open more democratic digital futures within, rather than outside, market-oriented smart-city development.
探討共享技術製作如何在市場導向的智慧城市發展之內，而非其外，開啟較民主的數位未來。
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Lin, C. Y. (2025). The role of intermediary spaces in crafting the smart city industry and urban futures: a case study of Taipei City. Urban Geography, 46(9), 1970-1992.
Studies Taipei's smart-city exhibition as an intermediary space where demonstrations, city networks, and policy assemble an urban-industrial future.
研究臺北智慧城市展如何作為中介空間，透過展演、城市網絡與政策組裝都市產業未來。
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Perng, S. Y. (2026). Accumulations of Artificial Intelligence in East Asia: An Archaeology of Experiments, Institutions, and Policies in Taiwan and Japan. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 116(4), 1025-1044.
Traces how experiments, institutions, and policies accumulate artificial intelligence differently in Taipei and Yokohama, rather than producing one universal AI future.
追蹤實驗、制度與政策如何在臺北與橫濱以不同方式累積人工智慧，而非產生單一普遍的AI未來。
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Chen, P. H. (2024). 10 The Return of NRICM101 to Taiwan. Taiwan’s COVID-19 Experience: Governance, Governmentality, and the Global Pandemic, 227.
A related candidate for examining how national imaginaries shaped the use of traditional Chinese medicine during COVID-19 in Taiwan.
可作為相關候選閱讀，討論國族想像如何形塑臺灣在COVID-19期間對中醫藥的運用。
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