Published On: Jan 23 2025
Deadline: Feb 4, 2025
The UN Interagency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (IATT) is calling upon scientists, engineers, economists, policy analysts, and UN staff experts to contribute science-policy briefs on science and technology issues that they would like to bring to the attention of policy and decision makers. The briefs will provide background knowledge to inform discussions at the MultiStakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum), to be held at UN Headquarters in New York from 7 to 8 May 2025, wi...
Published On: Jan 23 2025
The Association of Research Libraries, a membership organization of research libraries and archives in the United States and Canada, has launched a blog series called Repertoires, which will feature quarterly posts about recent STS books that highlight changing research practices in scholarly communities. Led by Marcel LaFlamme, ARL's Director of Research Policy and Scholarship as well as a 4S member, the series aims to distill actionable insights that library leaders can use to develop scholar-focused services at their institutions and beyond. In doing so, Repertoires hopes to play a role in ...
Published On: Dec 9 2024
Deadline: Feb 28, 2025
Citation remains a cornerstone of scholarly and scientific work. However, like many academic practices, citation is neither neutral nor universal. There are important differences between disciplines and language groups, and how and what we cite changes over time. There is also a great deal of evidence suggesting that the conscious and unconscious biases and discrimination that marks so much of our world also shapes who gets cited. Such bias serves to render the contributions of marginalised groups less visible. This special issue of the KULA journal seeks to explore how we can achieve greater ...
Published On: Nov 11 2024
Deadline: Jan 8, 2025
In recent years, perhaps stimulated by the growing awareness of the power of digital technologies, there have been calls for engineers and designers to advance values ‘by design’, such as democracy, participation, privacy and transparency. This builds on earlier inclusive design and access-for-all initiatives. But not all encounters with technologies are fulfilling, and some are designed to exclude or harm people, animals and nature. This workshop focuses on those technologies that could be described as hostile or exclusionary by design.
The workshop is supported by the Maastric...
Published On: Dec 11 2023
Deadline: May 15, 2024
As the special editors of issue 6.2 of JEM, the Journal of Environmental Media, we are pleased to share with you the call for proposals “Care-ful Convening: towards low carbon and inclusive knowledge sharing”.
Published On: Dec 11 2023
Deadline: May 31, 2024
This special issue seeks to bring these developments into closer relation with media art studies and media theory. We welcome contributions analyzing a wide range of practices that involve technological processes in some way. This may include experimentation with different forms of data (and the question of what counts as data), sensorial translations, original hardware and software tools, alternative modes of computing, and imaginary media. How can the concept of media in the hands of an artist be reconsidered through the lens of (A)STS methods and concepts? How does ‘the work of art&rs...
Published On: Nov 20 2023
Deadline: Jan 31, 2024
This Handbook intends to provide a comprehensive science and technology studies (STS) perspective to understanding dynamics at the intersection of the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors and society writ large. In doing so this volume deploys a socio-technical approach to understanding bio-pharmaceutical
research, development and deployment / use. Our approach makes visible the political, economic, innovation, governance, production and consumption elements not conventionally understood in the “science” of pharma. Our position is that understanding “pharma” writ large...
Published On: Oct 4 2024
Deadline: Dec 15, 2024
The 3rd international conference on Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025 in Doha, Qatar on February 7-8, 2025 invites abstracts for oral presentations and posters on the topics of: narrative medicine, medical sociology, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and narrative ethics, literature and medicine, arts therapies and arts-in-health, healthcare communication, the history of medicine and other humanistic initiatives in health and medicine.
Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15, 2024 | Notification of Acceptance: January, 1 2025 | Event: Feburary 7–8, 2025
Published On: Nov 20 2023
Deadline: Dec 31, 2023
We are seeking abstracts (500 words) for submissions until December 31, 2023 (to be sent to christoph.borbach@uni-siegen.de, subject: “NM&S Special Issue: Digital Twinning”). Datafication in the analogue era followed a different logic than do today’s media processes, with all their entanglements and interdependencies with and within the ‘real’ world. Human bodies, system processes, and their data traces and virtual models are deeply intertwined in current postdigital—or rather, more-than-human (Lupton 2019)—media cultures. It is surely not a new id...
Published On: Oct 18 2023
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies invites reviews of the following book titles related to labor and/or technology. The review should be approximately 1,000 words in length. If you are interested in reviewing any of these titles, please let me (oliverchan@cuhk.edu.hk or ngaikeungcc@gmail.com) know the author name and title of the book along with your name, title, affiliation, and e-mail address. Please also let me know if you'd prefer a digital or physical copy of the book. This is on a first-come, first-served basis for serious book reviewers only. ...