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4S Palestine Forum | Contributions Call
Published On: Jul 30, 2024
The 4S Palestine Forum, launched earlier this year as the initial project of the Working Group on War and Genocide that was initiated at 4S Honolulu in 2023, is welcoming further contributions.
Please submit new short blog-style entries, as well as references to published work, syllabi, and other resources by writing info@4sonline.org.
View the Palestine Forum in its entirety here: https://www.4sonline.org/palestine_forum.php
4S Digital Website Coordinator
Published On: Aug 20, 2024
4S seeks to appoint a new Digital Website Coordinator, to work for 10 hours per week for at least 12 months. Appropriate candidates should have familiarity with STS as a domain, solid technical skills with digital infrastructures, and the ability to work collaboratively with the Managing Director and elected leadership at 4S as well as the external provider (Memberleap). The rate of pay is US$25–30 per hour depending on skills and experience, for an annual rate of pay of US $12,500–1...
Animals, STS, and the Problem of Humanity in Gaza
Published On: Aug 21, 2024
This blog post asks, how can STS respond to dehumanization?
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.
Of Bridges, Translations, and Practical Necessities
Sonja van Wichelen
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This essay is part of a Thematic Collection of Science, Technology & Human Values on the work of Adele E. Clarke (1945–2024).
Becoming Scientific-Environmental Citizens Through Citizen Science in China
Coraline Goron
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This article advocates for a closer study of the forms of citizenship nurtured among individual participants in citizen science (CS) projects by highlighting some salient...
Making Kin with Adele: From Pathologizing in Vienna to Collaborating in Denver
Donna J. Haraway
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This essay is part of a Thematic Collection of Science, Technology & Human Values on the work of Adele E. Clarke (1945–2024).
Covalence in Cow-veillance: Sensing Technologies and Human-Animal Affinities in Dairying
Camille Bellet
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This article considers how the widespread use of camera surveillance systems in dairy farming affects engagements between farmers and cows. While literatures on visual...
Standardizing Excellence: Metric Assemblages in Mathematics Research in Chile
Fernando A. Valenzuela
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This study investigates the development, implementation, and establishment of evaluation metrics within the mathematics research community in Chile, a discipline where...
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...
4S Blog: Backchannels
ST&HV Summer School 2024: Reflections on academic generosity and doing STS in Singapore
Intervention and Responses: a critical historical period for Feminist Science Studies and STS. By Daiwie Fu. Taiwan: China Times Publishing, 2022, 208 pp.
Missing Indian Bodies in the Medical Research on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Regulating Generative AI Threats and Social Commons in the Public Interest
Backchannels content is contributed by our members to highlight news relevant to their work.
Making and Doing: STS Beyond the Four Corners of the Paper
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4S Palestine Forum | Contributions Call
Please submit new short blog-style entries, as well as references to published work, syllabi, and other resources by writing info@4sonline.org.
View the Palestine Forum in its entirety here: https://www.4sonline.org/palestine_forum.php
New Book | Leaving Fossil Fuels Underground
The book's contribution shows how to link effective climate action to socially and ecologically inclusive development while also taking stock of the dynamics and legitimacy of local resistance.
This wonderful first volume to start off the Liveable Futures Series...