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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.
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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.
Buttery Smooth: Privacy’s Bundling with Attention in Web Browser Performance
Lake Polan
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
Long considered an object of the law, Americans increasingly encounter privacy via the operations and settings of networked technologies. Based on ethnographic fieldwork...
Coding Beauty and Decoding Ugliness: The Role of Aesthetic Concerns in Programming Practices
Marina Fedorova
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
In this article, we analyze the productive role of aesthetics in organizing technoscientific work. Specifically, we investigate how aesthetic judgments form and inform...
The Politics of Amphibiousness: Shifting Coastal Management in the Netherlands
Marieke Meesters
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This paper explores the consequences of a shift in Dutch coastal management. The management approach transitioned from aiming to keep the sea at bay toward the stimulation...
Unscripted Practices for Uncertain Events: Organizational Problems in Cybersecurity Incident Management
Ashwin Jacob Mathew
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
Scripts can help us understand the designer–user relationship, by offering analysis of designers’ intent in technological objects and examination of users’ behaviors...
Vanguard Visions of Vertical Farming: Envisaging and Contesting an Emerging Food Production System
Mascha Gugganig
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
Vertical farming is an emerging urban food growth proposal that has gained considerable attention for its ability to be space-efficient, independent of outside weather...
Engaging Science, Technology and Society
Engaging Science, Technology, & Society is an online, open access publication of The Society for Social Studies of Science.
Caring for Scholarship in Transition
Published On: Apr 15 2024
Ali Kenner, Clément Dréano , Noela Invernizzi , Duygu Kaşdoğan , Aalok Khandekar , Angela Okune , Grant Jun Otsuki , Sujatha Raman , Tim Schütz , Federico Vasen, Amanda Windle , Emily York
This editorial briefly reflects on the idea of transition—a theme that cuts across energy systems, migration, and education, to name a few—and is likely familiar to many readers. In this issue, we focus on transition within...
Collaborative Ethnography and Matters of Care in Counterspaces
Published On: Apr 22 2024
Coleen Carrigan, Joyce Yen, Cara Margherio, Christine Grant, Claire Horner-Devine, Eve Riskin, Julie Ivy, Burren Peil
This paper offers a reflexive analysis of an interdisciplinary and cross-race collaboration to advance equity in engineering called LATTICE (Launching Academics on the Tenure-Track: an Intentional Community in Engineering). We...
Algorithms in the Margins: Organized Community Resistance to Port Automation in the Los Angeles Harbor Area
Published On: Apr 22 2024
Taylor M Cruz, Jaewoo Park, Emily Moore, Austin Chen, Andrea Gordillo
Public deliberations on artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) provoke strong interest in automation, or the perceived displacement of human labor due to general technological advances. Social science scholarship...
Maintenance and Its Knowledges: Functional Exploration, Biographical Supervision, and Behavioural Examination
Published On: Apr 22 2024
Jérôme Denis, Daniel Florentin, David Pontille
This introductory article to the thematic collection entitled “Maintenance and its Knowledges” makes a significant departure from breakdown-centred studies. It foregrounds the epistemic virtues of maintenance, a practice that...
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