ENACTING THE POLITICS OF CARE WITH CHRONIC AND CRIP TECHNOLOGIES

Drawing from feminist and queer technoscience studies, this panel examines the constitutive entanglements of bodies, technologies and systems in Type 1 diabetic continuous glucose monitoring and the intimate feeling of their numbers and data visualization; in the selfie politics of mastectomies on Instagram and the platform vernaculars people use to make the grief of breast cancer’s gendered loss representable; in the ways Bay Area Deaf AIDS activists in the 1980s and 1990s remediated their access to information through infrastructures of care they built for themselves and others; and in the ways Type 1 diabetics navigate the material culture of insulin pump treatment and the politics of diabetic care as both compulsory and liberating. Thinking across their research on chronic and crip technologies, this panel interrogates what it means, and is, to care for oneself and others in relation to the feel of navigating technologized, datafied, and materially marked lives and the systems and communities that shape their very possibilities. Building on Hamraie and Fritsch’s (2019) conception of “crip technoscience” and capacious notions of care articulated by folks in our research, panelists examine how chronic and disabled lives are lived between “enclosed regimes of self-care” with their individualizing models of selfhood and “collective communal care” frameworks (Sharma, 2017, para. 20, para. 4) that our research shows often require new ways of thinking about and better sourcing social and technological infrastructures that are centered around chronic and crip ways of living

Practical Correlation-Matrix Approaches for Standardized Testing of Wireless Devices in Reverberation Chambers

We extend the autocorrelation-based approaches currently used in standards to full correlation-matrix-based approaches in order to identify correlation between both spatially adjacent and non-adjacent samples in reverberation-chamber measurements. We employ a scalar metric that allows users to identify the number of effectively uncorrelated samples in new types of stirring sequences. To make these approaches practical and enhance their accuracy, we implement a thresholding technique that retains correlation related to important aspects of chamber configuration such as loading conditions. We develop a method to propagate uncertainty in the complex correlation coefficients through to the number of effective samples for a given reverberation-chamber set-up by use of a bootstrap technique that is accurate even for highly skewed distributions of correlation coefficients. We further apply this method in a sensitivity study regarding the choice of threshold value. Agreement with existing approaches in determining the number of effectively uncorrelated samples is presented for a measurement example where spatially adjacent samples are utilized. Examples are then illustrated for non-spatially-adjacent correlated samples at microwave and millimeter-wave frequencies

New Zealand

2009 was a particularly rich and diverse year for New Zealand literature, with the publication of significant works by many established authors and the emergence of several new and promising voices. Experimentation with form and a joyful celebration of the act of creation are a hallmark of much of this year’s bibliography. The first decade of the twenty-first century continues to be distinguished by a range of genres and forms – realist, mythic, fantastical and historical modes remain particularly popular – and, in some authors’ work, by a movement away from New Zealand settings to other, actual or imagined, locations