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The Floating Ampersand: STS Past and STS to Come
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2016 STS has become a discipline in the sense that it offers new ways to read and make sense of the world. It remains an amalgam, however, of two linked yet separate lines of inquiry, both abbreviated as STS.
Sheila Jasanoff
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Disciplined Interdisciplinarity? A Brief Account of STS in Norway [PDF]
Tecnoscienza, 2012 This paper discusses Science and Technology Studies (STS) in Norway by using interdisciplinarity as an accounting device. I present several ideas about interdisciplinarity in relation to STS, but Sheila Jasanoff’s proposal of a disciplined STS seems to ...
Knut H. Sørensen
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STS on STS : A Perspective of Science and Technology Studies on the STS Field Itself.
, 2011 STS, today the abbreviation for Science and Technology Studies (formerly Science, Technology and Society), is an elusive field characterized by widely varying applications and intents, highly dependent on individual people and facets, yet sharing some common aims and practices.
Hammarin, Gabriella
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The Catalan Association for Science and Technology Studies (STS-CAT) is born
On February 28th, the launch event for the Catalan Association for Science and Technology Studies (STS-CAT) took place in Barcelona. During the first session, Prof. Wiebe Bijker, as the keynote speaker, delivered a talk on the current social relevance and usefulness of STS, with a particular focus on recent international political developments.
Aibar, Eduard +2 more
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Science and technology studies (STS): možnosti a meze antropologie v laboratořích
AntropoWebzin, 2012 Science and technology studies (STS) have become a relevant partner for other disciplines when it comes to understanding the period we live in. STS’s frequent application of an ethnographical approach may seem inviting to an anthropologist, but what kind
Daniel Zeman
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Discussion in science and technology studies (STS) about status of sociological explanation [PDF]
Социологический журнал, 2012 Sociological explanation tends to be universal. This results in expansion of explanation models from sociology into the other fields of knowledge. Scientists from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) played significant role in this process ...
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Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2021 This article examines underdetermination as a key theoretical assumption in an emerging body of educational research. Underdetermination is described as a broad philosophical position that assumes that social, scientific and technological phenomena ...
Carlo Perrotta
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Science Technology & Society, 2021 COVID–19 has not only resulted in nearly two and a half million deaths globally but it has also spawned a pandemic of misinformation and conspiracies. In this article I examine COVID–19 misinformation and conspiracies in the United States (US).
A. Prasad
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Care robots for the common good: ethics as politics
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 The development of care robots has been accompanied by a number of technical and social challenges, which are guided by the question: “What is a robot for?” Debates guided by this question have discussed the functionalities and tasks that can be ...
Núria Vallès-Peris, Miquel Domènech
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Intersectionality and Science and Technology Studies
Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2023 Over the past thirty years, intersectionality has become a nearly ubiquitous framework for understanding, critiquing, and intervening in complex social inequalities.
P. Grzanka, J. Brian, Rajani Bhatia
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