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4S Honolulu Paraconference
Published On: Mar 23, 2023
In collaboration with the Environmental inJustice: Building a Global Record project and local EJ activists in Hawai’i, interested 4S members will re-analyze their research on colonialism, militarism and/or environmental injustice and para-site it by situating it in ...
4S Council Nominations — 2023
Published On: Feb 22, 2023
4S Council Nominations — 2023 Nominations open: 15 March Deadline: 19 April 4S will hold its annual election in May, seeking to fill seats for three Council members, the Treasurer, and one 6S (Student Section) representative, all of whom will serve from November 202...
Remembering Bruno Latour (1947–2022)
Published On: Oct 10, 2022
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.
Pluralistic Collaboration in Science and Technology: Reviewing Knowledge Systems, Culture, Norms, and Work Styles
Oct 10 2022
Saul Halfon, Benjamin K. Sovacool
Performance, Spectacle, Affect: The Polygraph’s Sexual Politics
Oct 6 2022
Jessica Lingel, Heather Jaber
Formal and Informal Infrastructures of Collaboration in the Human Brain Project
Sep 25 2022
Christine Aicardi, Tara Mahfoud
Eliciting Values for Technology Design with Moral Philosophy: An Empirical Exploration of Effects and Shortcomings
Nov 18 2022
Kathrin Bednar, Sarah Spiekermann
Engaging Science, Technology and Society
Engaging Science, Technology, & Society is an online, open access publication of The Society for Social Studies of Science.
Editorials
Building Community with ESTS
Sep 9 2022
Aalok Khandekar; Noela Invernizzi, Duygu Kaşdoğan, Ali Kenner, Angela Okune, Grant Jun Otsuki, Sujatha Raman, Amanda Windle, Emily York, ESTS Editorial Collective
Research Articles
The Unique and the Universal: Analyzing the Interplay Between Regulatory Frameworks, Researchers and Research Participants in Data Making
Sep 9 2022
Francisca Nordfalk, Maria Olejaz, Klaus Høyer
The Empowering Virtues of Citizen Science: Claiming Clean Air in Brussels
Sep 9 2022
Nicola da Schio
Thematic Collections
Science & Dissent: Alternative Temporalities, Geographies, Epistemologies
Sep 9 2022
Kelly Moore, Bruno Strasser
Collaborative Dissent: Noses as Shared Instruments in the Nineteenth-Century Fight for Public Health
Sep 9 2022
Melanie A. Kiechle
Creative Dissent in India: Knowledge Swaraj and the People’s Health Movement
Sep 9 2022
Shambu C. Prasad, Mathieu Quet
The Shapes of Dissent: Protest, Masculinities, and Nuclear Expertise
Sep 9 2022
Bruno J. Strasser
From Resistance to Co-Management?: Rethinking Scientization in the Contestation of the Technosciences
Sep 9 2022
Sezin Topçu
Knowledge Co-Production in Scientific and Activist Alliances: Unsettling Coloniality
Sep 9 2022
Marta Conde, Mariana Walter
Seed Schools in Colombia and the Generative Character of Sociotechnical Dissent
Sep 9 2022
Nathalia Hernandez Vidal, Kelly Moore
Engagements
How to Deal with Cosmoecological Perplexities: Artscience, Critical Zones, Pluriversal Politics
Sep 9 2022
Casper Bruun Jensen
4S Blog: Backchannels
Epistemic violence in STEM textbooks: A Feminist critique of biostatistics
The Enantiodromia Yin-Yang Dual Time System
The world in a billion points: Interview with ScanLAB Projects
A current question: What is STS? A Report on the 2022 STS Turkey Conference
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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