Sociotechnical imaginaries are visions of desired social and technological futures created
and sustained by stakeholders in science, industry and politics. Within the dominating …

This essay begins from the intensified entanglements of technoscientific innovation with
miscellaneous societal and public fields of interest and action over recent years. This has …

This article addresses the anticipated use and users of smart energy technologies and the
contribution of these technologies to energy sustainability. It focuses on smart grids and …

The proposal for a new European Data Protection Regulation introduces the novel
obligation of performing data protection assessments. Since these assessments will become …

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in force since 2018, has
introduced design-based approaches to data protection and the governance of privacy. In …

Urban energy transitions are key components of urgently requisite climate change
mitigation. Promissory discourse accords smart grids pride of place within them. We employ …

The increasing use of quantification in all spheres of society is paralleled by the rise of
digitalisation. These intertwining developments not only revolutionise data treatment, but …

The idea of building safeguards for privacy and other fundamental rights and freedoms into
ICT systems has recently been introduced in EU legislation as 'Data Protection by Design' …

Recent efforts to involve digital technologies and renewables in the electricity grid have
placed users at center stage in the legitimation of energy transitions. This move has been …

This article is an analytic register of recent European efforts in the making of 'autonomous'
robots to address what is imagined as Europe's societal challenges. The paper describes …