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Introduction: Work and Organizing in Scientific and Technological Phenomena
Work and organizing have always been central to Science and Technology Studies (STS). Focusing on work and organizing practices has allowed STS to highlight the routine activities of scientists and the often-invisible work embedded in scientific and ...
Attila Bruni
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A Fragile Field. The Development and Transformation of Science and Technology Studies in Switzerland
This contribution reconstructs the history of Science and Technology Studies in Switzerland. With a focus on the institutional aspects of the field’s emergence, it traces early initiatives to foster social research on science and technology, then ...
Regula Valérie Burri, Martina Merz
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Disclosing and concealing: internet governance, information control and the management of visibility
The ubiquity of digital technologies and the datafication of many domains of social life raise important questions about governance. In the emergent field of internet governance studies, most work has explored novel governance arrangements, institutional
Mikkel Flyverbom
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Living in the Material World [PDF]
My topic is materiality and how ideas on materiality from my field—STS, science and technology studies—might cross over into management and organisation studies.
Pickering, Andrew
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This article examines how women getting by in Kampala, take up registers of gender and sexuality in a contemporary hybrid democratic-authoritarian state with compulsory heterosexuality.
Austin Bryan
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Introduction - Bodies on Trial: Performances and Politics in Medicine and Biology [PDF]
This special issue, devoted to the question of the body in medicine and biology, brings together a group of authors whose roots lie within the field of science and technology studies (STS), and at the intersections of STS with medical sociology and ...
Akrich, Madeleine, Berg, Marc
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Participation in Transition(s):Reconceiving Public Engagements in Energy Transitions as Co-Produced, Emergent and Diverse [PDF]
This paper brings the transitions literature into conversation with constructivist Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspectives on participation for the first time.
Arendt H. +23 more
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L’invisible qui façonne. Études d’infrastructure et gouvernance d’Internet
This article analyses an ensemble of interdisciplinary research efforts, grounded mainly in science and technology studies (STS), which – based upon Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star’s seminal work – seeks to study informational and digital ...
Francesca Musiani
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Technology and Ageing—Theoretical Propositions from Science and Technology Studies (STS)
In this chapter, I explore new grounds for theorizing ageing and digital technology. I do so by summarizing insights from critical studies of science and technology, i.e. the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), in relation to ageing. The discussion revolves around three major insights that can be derived from the STS literature on ageing and
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This paper looks at ways to think about the relationship between the knowledge that we produce and its social origins without falling into a naïve determinism.
Geoffrey C. Bowker
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