Tecnologia Social: an introduction to research, practice and another future
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Decolonizing our minds and bodies is a slow and arduous process. The Western paradigm, centered on Europe and North America, continues to present itself as universal and superior, relegating the rest of the world to a subordinate and peripheral position. In response, universities and social movements from the Global South have sought to decolonize knowledge production by valuing alternative forms of knowing that have often been rendered invisible. In this context, the concept of tecnologia social emerges as both a theoretical and practical lens, rooted in local cultural traditions and solidarity economy movements. It proposes initiatives that have played a fundamental role in addressing economic and social crises, particularly among vulnerable populations. Although contested, the concept of tecnologia social refers not only to physical artifacts but also to methodologies and ways of organizing. Still relatively unknown within Latin American academia and almost invisible internationally, this approach deserves greater recognition. This thematic call aims to strengthen the field by bringing together critical, theoretical, and practice-based articles committed to tecnologia social and social transformation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.012 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.053 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.023 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".