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Call for Proposals for Special Issues: STHV
Published On: Mar 7, 2024
Deadline: Jun 21, 2024
The editorial group of Science, Technology, & Human Values announces the journal’s 2024 Call for Proposals for Special Issues. Interested scholars should submit a proposal by 21 June 2024. In August 2024, the editors of ST&HV will choose one Special Issue proposal to proceed. The editors may also select and invite other proposals to proceed as shorter Thematic Collections if suitable. Diversity of contributions from scholars internationally, and at different career stages, is encou...
Seeking Nominations for ASA Anti-Racism Awards
Published On: Mar 2, 2024
Deadline: Mar 15, 2024
The 4S community is invited to submit nominations for two prizes from the American Sociological Association (ASA) recognizing antiracism scholarship and practice it the intersection of science, knowledge, technology, and society.
Support for the integrity of Argentina’s science system (ISC)
Published On: Mar 1, 2024
In an letter to the network of authorities of research institutions in Argentina (RAICyT), the ISC expresses its concern regarding the future of Argentina’s science system. The ISC offers its assistance in working with local and regional communities to develop a robust science sector which contributes to Argentina’s social, environmental and economic success.
4S Publications
Science, Technology, and Human Values
For more than forty years, Science, Technology, & Human Values has provided the forum for cutting-edge research and debate in the field of science and technology studies.
Seeing Like a Model Fish: How Digital Extractions Mediate Metabolic Relations
Susanne Bauer
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
Digital models have become key sites of biological practice and science policy. This paper examines efforts to craft a digital salmon model for metabolic research. It traces...
Making Citra: Branding, Breeding, and the Co-production of New Aroma Hops in the Yakima Valley
Matt Comi
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
Using farmer-owned breeding programs operated by vertically integrated US Northwest hop growers, this article examines the novel hops produced by these programs with market...
Islands and Beaches in Science and Technology Studies
Warwick Anderson
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annually awards the John Desmond Bernal Prize to one or more individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the...
Life as Aftermath: Social Theory for an Age of Anthropogenic Biology
Hannah Landecker
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
Anthropogenic pressures now shape the development, interrelations, and evolution of microbes, plants, animals, and humans. In an age of oxidative stress and failures of...
Hydroelectric Chimeras and “Our” Mayan Rivers: De-inscribing Security in Guatemala
Diane M. Nelson
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This essay is written in the wake of Guatemala’s thirty-six-year civil war, grounded in the Cold War–Doctrine of National Security which understood Indigenous people...
Engaging Science, Technology and Society
Engaging Science, Technology, & Society is an online, open access publication of The Society for Social Studies of Science.
Innovationism Across Transnational Landscapes
Published On: Dec 31 2023
Noela Invernizzi, Emily York, Clément Dréano, Duygu Kaşdoğan, Ali Kenner, Aalok Khandekar, Angela Okune, Grant Jun Otsuki, Sujatha Raman, Tim Schütz, Federico Vasen, Amanda Windle
This editorial introduces the thematic collection on STS and innovation. The collection includes eleven Engagements exploring the relationships between innovation studies (IS) and STS across various geographies. There is also...
Masking (Not Masking) Up: An STS Visual-Intersectional Approach to Understanding Publics and Science in Times of Rapid Change
Published On: Dec 31 2023
Susan Bell, Patrick Grzanka, Kelly Joyce, Laura Senier
In this paper we argue that a visual-intersectional approach can advance the field of science and technology studies (STS). Although there is a small but important body of work using visual methods in STS, it has rarely incorporated...
STS and Innovation: Borderlands, Regenerations and Critical Engagements
Published On: Dec 31 2023
Alan Irwin
This introduction to a thematic collection on the relationship between STS and innovation poses three main questions. When it comes to engaging with and acting upon socio-technical change, is ‘innovation’ part of the solution...
Bringing Fences Down: The Role of Critical Innovation Studies in Engaging STS with Innovation and the Contribution of Benoît Godin
Published On: Dec 31 2023
Tiago Brandão, Carolina Bagattolli
Innovation has constituted a subject of key interest for quite some time. However, only a few fields and scholars have embraced the challenge of finding ways to deconstruct our contemporary society’s most recurrent mantra. Questioning...
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Making Data, Making Worlds: The Consequences of the Generative Turn in Big Data and AI
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