4S — Technoscience, April 2022

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Technoscience Update, newsletter of the Society for Social Studies of Science

April, 2022

Contents

4S News

Backchannels

STS Announcements

STS Events

Calls for Papers and Proposals

Positions, Permanent / Temporary

Fellowships and PostDocs

4S News

Presidential Message, April 2022

Dear 4Sers, 

There are important changes afoot so please read this message carefully.

I am in the midst of discussions with Sage, the publisher of our journal Science, Technology, and Human Values (ST&HV), as our 10-year publishing contract is at its mid-point and we have a chance to renegotiate terms. After consulting with the incoming Editors and Council, I am attempting to get more support for the editorial team (as we are moving from a single editor to a team of four), editorial support for authors who speak English as an additional language, and social media support. In arguing for this additional support, the possibility of moving to an online-only journal has been raised. Currently, around nine thousand copies of ST&HV are mailed to 4S members each year. While some of us might value receiving the hard copy bi-monthly, it is likely that most people access journal content online through their affiliated institution or through their member subscription. Council and Editors support the principle of reducing 4S’s environmental impact and diverting the resources used to mail the journal into initiatives that will increase participation in and reach of the journal. If members have any concerns with moving the journal online, please email me.  

4S Council has received draft Articles of Incorporation and is continuing to discuss this important proposed change to 4S. The benefits of incorporation include legal protections for council members, committee members, and staff. As I mentioned in the last Technoscience, if 4S becomes incorporated, the 4S Charter will become the ‘4S Bylaws’ and the 4S Council will become the 4S ‘Board of Directors’. Another important change will be a quorum for Business Meetings. Currently our Charter has no quorum for member meetings, so if 10 people turn up for a Business Meeting they can still make decisions for the whole Society. All US state laws require a quorum for member meetings. The default percentage for a quorum in most states is 10%, but many scholarly societies choose a smaller percentage for quorum in recognition that most members are not particularly interested in society governance.

A 5% quorum would mean that over 100 people would be required for a quorate Business Meeting, which arguably provides a reasonable balance between ensuring adequate member participation in governance and the reality that most 4S members choose not to participate in 4S Business Meetings. Of course, we would always aim for higher than 5% participation! In the next month, we plan to hold information sessions in different time zones to discuss incorporation with interested members, so look out for those invitations. If you have any comments or concerns in the meantime, please email me.

A reminder that nominations are open for council members, 6S representatives, and the 4S President-Elect. Council members will serve a three-year term beginning December 2022. Please consider nominating yourself or someone else and note that nominations close May 31st. Please contact  Bryn Seabrook (4S Council Elections Committee) with questions about 4S Council positions, Angela Okune (6S Rep) about the 6S position, and me with any questions about the President-Elect position. 

Finally,the 4S Cholula conference co-Chairs will provide a conference update in next month’s Technoscience, but I can report that  we are expecting over 1000 abstracts for the conference and both the conference team and the 4S team are increasingly hopeful that we will have a vibrant in-person conference in December.

Emma Kowal

4S President

 

Call for Proposals: Special Issues of Science, Technology & Human Values

The incoming editorial group of Science, Technology & Human Values (Kari Lancaster, Courtney Addison, Timothy Neale and Matthew Kearnes) have decided to put in place a new process for the journal’s Special Issues. The new process will replace the existing rolling open call with an annual Call for Proposals that opens in April each year and closes in June each year.

Our aims with this new process are twofold. First, by synchronising the application process, an annual call will provide more equality of opportunity to scholars who wish to propose Special Issues. Second, the new process will make the development of Special Issues more dialogical, both in relation to the editors and the wider STS community. Editors of Special Issues will now be asked to issue an open call for article submissions in order to provide opportunities for scholars outside their immediate networks. 

1. Interested scholars submit a Special Issue proposal to sthvj...@gmail.com by 1 June 2022. All proposals should include a working title, names, affiliations, and short biographies of guest editors (100 words each), a 600-word abstract outlining the proposed Special Issue theme and its significance to the field of STS, between three and five 200-word abstracts for proposed articles on that theme, with the relevant authors names and affiliations. Special Issue proposals will be selected on the basis of: a) overall quality; b) the extent to which they represent a field-defining intervention in STS; c) their potential to attract a diverse range of contributions from scholars internationally.
   
2. Before 1 July 2022, the editors of ST&HV will choose one Special Issue proposal to proceed. The editors may in addition select and invite other proposals to proceed as shorter Special Sections if suitable.
   
3. The editors of the selected Special Issue proposal(s) will issue an open call for further proposed articles on their theme, closing no earlier than 1 September 2022. A Special Issue will typically contain 7-8 research articles. Diversity of contributions from scholars internationally, and at different career stages, is encouraged.
   
4. The editors of the selected Special Issue proposal(s) will submit the full Special Issue for peer review no later than 1 February 2023. Individual manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 words including endnotes and references. Articles that are accepted through peer review will subsequently appear OnlineFirst as ready before the publication of the Special Issue in full, anticipated in 2024.
5. All proposals and general inquiries should be sent in the first instance to Carolina Caliaba (Managing Editor) at sthvj...@gmail.com. Please submit your proposal by 1 June 2022. You can find out more about ST&HV’s current submission requirements and style guide at https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/STH

 

***New in Backchannels***

Science in the Vernacular? A Conversation on Translation and Terminology

Shashank Deora

Apr 11, 2022 | Reflections

This post discusses some of the key themes of the research of Charu Singh, lecturer at Stanford University, on the history of scientific languages and the translation of European technical vocabulary into South Asian languages.

Working through Disillusionment with the High-Tech Sector

Karina Rider

Apr 04, 2022 | Reflections

Karina Rider reflects on the notion of "repair work," communities of civic technologists, and six months of associated fieldwork that she carried out in the San Francisco Bay Area between 2018-19.

To Trevor, with Love – II

Students and friends of Trevor Pinch

Mar 28, 2022 | Reflections

In this concluding part in a two-part blog of tributes to Prof. Trevor Pinch, his graduate students share their deep love and appreciation for Trevor Pinch.

A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado

Shiloh Krupar and Sarah Kanouse

Mar 21, 2022 | Projects

In this post, Shiloh Krupar and Sarah Kanouse introduce A People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado, a digital and actively-growing public humanities project that attends to the interchange between the U.S. nuclear complex and the state of Colorado.

Complete List of Backchannels posts

***STS Announcements***

New Book — The Great Reconfiguration: A Socio-Technical Analysis of Low-Carbon Transitions in UK Electricity, Heat, and Mobility Systems

The Great Reconfiguration: A Socio-Technical Analysis of Low-Carbon Transitions in UK Electricity, Heat, and Mobility Systems By Frank W. Geels and Bruno Turnheim Cambridge University Press (April 2022) Summary This book is intended for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in the dynamics and governance of low-carbon transitions. Drawing on the Multi-Level...

New Book — “La teoría del actor-red desde América Latina” by Leandro Rodriguez-Medina, María de los Ángeles Pozas and Lidia Girola (editors), El Colegio de México, 2022

The actor-network theory (ANT), initially enunciated in the field of science and technology studies, is one of the most recent and controversial theoretical and methodological approaches in the social sciences. Its relational character determines that the interaction between actants (human and non-human) constantly defines and redefines social actors. Thus, they...

6th STS Italia Summer School “Disentangling Futures: Promises, Scenarios, Experiments”

Deadline: April 30, 2022

STS Italia, the Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies with the support of European Association for the Study of Science and Technology announces the call for its 6th Summer School, “Disentangling Futures: Promises, Scenarios, Experiments”, to be held in Padova (Italy) from September 27th to October 1st, 2022. The...

Inaugural Race and Histories of Technology Prize — Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)

Deadline: May 22, 2022

We are pleased to announce the newly established (2022) inaugural prize in Race and Histories of Technology: This annual prize, awarded by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), recognizes outstanding scholarship that explicitly explores the multiple intersections and junctures between race/ethnicity and the history of technology. The prize...

New Book on STS methods — Doing document analysis. A Practice-Oriented Method by Kristin Asdal and Hilde Reinertsen

New book on STS methods: Doing document analysis. A Practice-Oriented Method by Kristin Asdal and Hilde Reinertsen SAGE Publications 2022 https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/doing-document-analysis/book276193 STS’ers are increasingly turning to documents, texts, and archives in their study of practices. Focusing on document analysis both in practice and as practice, the book provides an innovative...

New Book by former 4S President, Sal Restivo — Inventions in Sociology

This book presents a collection of old and new essays exploring the author’s unique contributions to the sociology of science, mathematics, logic, robotics, brain, and god. Known for his defense of a strong social constructionist approach to the hard problems in the sociology of science, the power and range of Restivo’s interests...

Complete List of STS Announcements

***STS Event Calls***

Call for Abstracts — Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into smart-city initiatives

Deadline: April 22, 2022

Conference of Irish Geographers Limerick, Ireland 18-20 May 2022 Session Title: Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into smart-city initiatives Session Organisers: Zongtian Guo (gu...@tcd.ie), Trinity College Dublin, and Dr Jie Guo(jie.g...@gmail.com), Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangdong Academy of Science. In recent years, AI has been incorporated into the research and practice...

Call for Abstracts — Platform-generated urban networks as infrastructural assemblages

Deadline: May 8, 2022

5th International Conference on RETHINKING CLUSTERS: CRISIS AND PATH RENEWAL OF PLACES IN TIME OF UNCERTAINTY 5-7 September 2022, Osaka Metropolitan University (Hybrid) Organisers:  Dimitris Pettas, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, Technical University of Berlin Vasilis Avdikos, Assistant Professor, Panteion University Antigoni Papageorgiou, Postdoctoral Researcher, Panteion University Platforms have rapidly expanded around the...

Call for Papers — Digital Exhaustion: A Symposium

Deadline: April 20, 2022

Overflowing email inboxes. Back-to-back Zoom meetings. Unending data extraction. Constant connectivity. Data-driven productivity measurement. Gruelling gig economy work. The pressure to maintain social media presence. Netflix binging. Daily life in digital culture can be exhausting. The Digital Exhaustion Research Group (DigEx) invite papers for a half-day symposium (27th May 2022) hosted...

Call for Papers — Media, Power, Technological Determinism, University of Washington Graduate Conference

Deadline: April 29, 2022

Call For Papers: Media, Power, Technological Determinism University of Washington Graduate Conference  June 4th, 2022, Seattle and Online Paper Proposal Submission Deadline: April 29th, 2022 Keynote Speaker (Online): Nicole Starosielski (NYU) Guest Panel Respondent (Online): Weixian Pan (NYU Shanghai)  Does the modern office floor plan of the skyscrapers redefine...

Call for Papers — “Flexibility“ and “Agility“: Strategies, Practices, and Ambivalences of a Key Concept since the 1980s, 17/18 November 2022, Darmstadt (Germany)

Deadline: May 30, 2022

Organizers: Martina Heßler (TU Darmstadt), Martin Krzywdzinski (HSU), Christopher Neumaier (ZZF) Flexibility has emerged as a key concept to explain social change since the 1970s and 1980s. Flexibilization shaped industrial and service relations as well as social relations. Examples of this process include flextime succeeding rigid workday time regulations in...

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***Publishing and Proposal Calls***

Call for Papers — "Autoimmunities in the Wake of Covid-19"

Deadline: May 1, 2022

Catalyst would like to take this opportunity to announce a new Call for Papers: Autoimmunities in the Wake of Covid-19 Guest Editors: Travis Alexander (Rice University) and Nishant Shahani (Washington State University) We invite submissions to a special section of Catalyst that considers the role of autoimmunity in the wake of COVID-19. We invite an open-ended range of methodological...

Call for papers — "Future-proofing the city: A human rights-based approach to the governance of algorithmic, biometric and smart city technologies"

Deadline: May 31, 2022

The research project titled ‘Long-term Human Rights Risks of Smart City Technologies’, the Legal Tech Lab of the Faculty of Law of the University of Helsinki*, the Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies at York University and the City Institute at York University invite you to submit abstracts for the special issue ‘Future-Proofing...

New Research Topic (RT) launched on Frontiers in Sociology, “Personalized health and precision medicine in practice”

Deadline: April 30, 2022

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to be launching a new Research Topic (RT) on Frontiers in Sociology, “Personalized health and precision medicine in practice“, managed by the following editorial team: Luca Chiapperino – University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerl and Francesco Panese – University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Séverine Louvel – Sciences...

Special Issue — “Ethics in Expanding Precision Medicine to Population Health”

Deadline: May 30, 2022

Dear Colleagues, The promise of precision medicine has its origins in population health science, founded on inferences made possible by risk stratification. Thirty years after the Human Genome Project, advances in genomics are creating new opportunities to enhance the health of populations around the world, ranging from...

Complete List of Publishing Calls

***Positions, Permanent/Temporary***

Funded PhD Position in Political Ecology/STS at Dartmouth

The Ecology, Evolution, Environment & Society (EEES) graduate program at Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, United States) seeks applicants for fully-funded PhD study at the intersection of political ecology and science and technology studies (STS), beginning in September 2022.  Candidates interested in pursuing critical qualitative research on agri-food, water and/or energy...

Two Tenure-Track Positions in Environmental Studies — SUNY ESF

The Department of Environmental Studies is searching for two assistant professor positions as part of cluster hires. Position are in Water Policy and Governance; and Climate Justice/Urban Sustainability. Brief descriptions below; see full details at https://www.esf.edu/hr/clusterhire/   1) Urban Sustainability Faculty Cluster Initiative: The State University of New York College of...

Assistant Professor in Science & Technology Studies: Racial Justice and Intergroup Dialogue

The Department of Science & Technology Studies (STS) in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor with experience in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) to begin Fall 2022. We seek a scholar...

Funded PhD Position at Medical Museion, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen

Deadline: May 22, 2022

We are offering a 3-year PhD fellowship at Medical Museion, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, focused on Research Culture, commencing 15 September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter. Our group and research: Medical Museion is a university research unit as well as a public museum where research,...

Associate Professor/Assistant Professor, Digital Culture and Social Media Studies — Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Lingnan University, a distinctive liberal arts institution in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is committed to the provision of quality whole-person education by combining the best of Chinese and Western liberal arts traditions. It strives to pursue excellence in teaching, learning, scholarship and community engagement. With three academic Faculties...

PhD in Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg

Deadline: May 19, 2022

Theory of science, not to be conflated with Philosophy of science, is a Swedish branch of STS. A PhD position in Theory of science is now open at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of science, University of Gothenburg. It is part of a new graduate school hosted by...

PhD Positions (65%) in Social Sciences, Cluster of Excellence “Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture”, University of Stuttgart

Deadline: April 30, 2022

The Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart is seeking to hire 3 doctoral researchers (E13 TVL 65%; starting on July 1, 2022, initially for 3 years) in social sciences to conduct research at the Chair of Sociology of Technology, Risk and Environment (SoWi V) on projects in the Cluster of Excellence ”Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture” (IntCDC; funded by the German Research Council). The research projects investigate how...

Announcement for Editor-In-Chief position, Engineering Studies

Deadline: June 15, 2022

We invite nominations and applications for the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Studies: The Journal of the International Network for Engineering Studies. Founded in 2004, the International Network of Engineering Studies (INES) is an interdisciplinary community of scholars who study the relationships among the technical and nontechnical dimensions of engineering practice, and...

Program Director opening to support UCSF-Johns Hopkins Opioid Industry Documents Archive

The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health is seeking an exceptional manager to direct the University’s contributions to the Opioid Industry Documents Archive, a state-of-the-art digital archive of litigation documents surrounding the opioid epidemic jointly supported by UCSF and Johns Hopkins. The incumbent will serve as the outward facing...

Complete List of STS Positions

***Fellowships and PostDocs***

Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociotechnical Studies of Robotics at the University of Texas at Austin

Deadline: May 1, 2022

The Living and Working with Robots (LWR) project at UT Austin invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow who conducts sociotechnical research at the intersection of emerging technologies and real-world communities. As a Core Research Project of the Good Systems Research Grand Challenge, the LWR project’s mission is to build and...

Call for Applications — Urban Studies Foundation’s International Fellowships for Urban Scholars from the Global South

Deadline: May 9, 2022

Applications are invited to the USF’s International Fellowships for urban scholars from the Global South. Each award will cover the cost of a sabbatical period at a university of the candidate’s choice, worldwide, for the purpose of writing-up the candidate’s existing research findings in the form of publishable articles and/or a book. The...

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin — Postdoctoral Fellowships

Deadline: April 24, 2022

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, offers several Postdoctoral Fellowships (residential, 12+ months), to take place within the period from 1 August 2022 to July 31 2024. As part of the Max Planck Sabbatical Award Program, we invite scholars to apply for participation in the...

Postdoctoral Fellow: Social Scientist for Transdisciplinary Environmental Health-Social Science Team

Postdoctoral Fellow: Social Scientist for Transdisciplinary Environmental Health-Social Science Team Northeastern University’s Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute (SSEHRI), in collaboration with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Department of Health Sciences, seeks a postdoctoral research associate, supported by our National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences T-32 Training Program...

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