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• Call for Papers: Special Issue "Energy Futures and Nuclear Infrastructures: Legacies, Fragilities, Imaginaries"

  2024-10-18

  Abstract deadline: 16th December 2024

  This issue addresses the current nuclear “relaunch” announcements and socio-political rehabilitation through a low-carbon framing as an entry point for STS research. We argue that the persistence of the nuclear past imprints both the present of this industrial sector and the shapes of its imagined and envisaged energy futures. And beyond an industry that is singular in many aspects, we seek to shed light on processes that appear in many other fields of technological development.

  Guest Editors

  Martin Denoun (Spiral, University of Liège) <martin.denoun@uliege.be>
  Maël Goumri (LAMSADE, Cermes3, Université Paris Dauphine) <mael.goumri@u-paris.fr>
  Claire Le Renard (LATTS, École des Ponts ParisTech) <claire.le-renard@enpc.fr>
  Ange Pottin (University of Vienna) <ange.pottin@univie.ac.at>

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• Call for Papers: Special Issue "Repairing public sector (with) artificial intelligence"

  2024-03-20

  Full paper deadline: 30th October 2024

  This special issue aims to explore the implementation and impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public sector through the conceptual lenses of breakdown and repair.

  Guest editors

  Tuukka Lehtiniemi, Centre for Consumer Society Research, University of Helsinki, tuukka.lehtiniemi@helsinki.fi

  Heta Tarkkala, Academic disciplines of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, heta.tarkkala@helsinki.fi

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• Call for Papers: Special Issue "Across the Layers: How Data Infrastructures Link Knowledge Practices and Planetary Matter"

  2024-03-08

  Full paper deadline: 30th September 2024

  This special issue invites contributions that focus on the mediation of knowledge practices and planetary matter through data infrastructures. 

  Guest editors

  Leman Çelik, Stefan Laser, Estrid Sørensen (Ruhr-University Bochum, contact: <estrid.sorensen@rub.de>)

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• Science & Technology Studies open call for new editors

  2022-11-24

  Science & Technology Studies, the house journal of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) published by the Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies (FSSTS), is looking for editors to start as early as possible, preferably from February 2023 onwards.  The deadline for applications is 15 December 2022. This is an open call for editors, which requires an application (CV and a cover letter, see below). A decision will be made in early 2023 based on the applications received and the criteria in the advertisement. 

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• Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Ethnographic data generation in STS collaboration”

  2019-02-14

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• Call for Papers: Special Issue on Expertise and Its Tensions

  2017-01-04

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• Call for Papers: Special Issue on Foreknowledge in public policy: new practices, new objects, and new challenges for a political sociology of predictive expertise

  2017-01-04

  The special issue critically examines the role of foreknowledge – forecasts produced by energy system models, climate change scenarios, numerical predictions used in chemicals regulation, algorithmic prognoses of crime hot spots and so on – in policy making and public debate.

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• Call For Papers: Special Issue on the many modes of Citizen Science

  2016-06-18

  This call for papers is concerned with the many modes of citizen science that have emerged in recent times. During the past two decades there has been an increased interest in citizen science (Follett and Strezov 2015; Kullenberg and Kasperowski 2016). Such projects have often been launched with expectations of changing the very landscape of science, especially with reference to citizen science in the natural sciences, where it is performed as a method that engages volunteers for collecting and submitting observations (Silvertown 2009; Cohn 2008; Danielsen, Burgess, and Balmford 2005).

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• CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue KNOWLEDGE INFRASTRUCTURES

  2016-02-11

  Guest Editors: Helena Karasti, Florence Millerand, Christine M. Hine, Geoffrey C. Bowker
  Submission deadline: October 19, 2014

  In recent decades we have witnessed important changes in research and knowledge production. Whether these changes are promoted as a transformative force enabling new forms of investigation or perceived as buttressing existing forms of research, they are associated with developments in information technologies and infrastructures. These developments aim to pull people together, supporting distributed collaboration or facilitating new joint activities and endeavors across domains, fields, institutions, and geographies. They offer new opportunities for the sharing and connecting of information and resources – data, code, publications, computing power, laboratories, instruments, and major equipment. They often bring together a diversity of actors, organizations and perspectives from, for instance, academia, industry, business, and general public. The social, material, technical, and political relations of research and knowledge production are changing through digitalization of data, communication and collaboration, virtualization of research communities and networks, and infrastructuring of underlying systems, structures and services. These emerging phenomena participate in ongoing transitions in the scholarly arena, and in society in general: traditional ways of doing research may be challenged and knowledge production may become more distributed and broader in participants. These phenomena have been cast under several labels such as big science, data-driven science, networked science, open science, Digital Humanities, and science 2.0. Other terms used are: e-Science, e-Social Science, e-Research, e-Infrastructure, and cyberinfrastructure.

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• CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue On New Topics In Interaction Between University And Society Guest editors: Juha Tuunainen & Kari Kantasalmi

  2016-02-11

  Dead line: 30 September, 2014

  This special issue of Science & Technology Studies is based on the session, which will be organized at the International Sociological Association’s (ISA) XVIII World Congress of Sociology to be held on 13-19 July, 2014, in Yokohama, Japan. In addition to those authors whose papers have been accepted for presentation in the conference, the call for papers is hereby extended to other scholars working with the topic. The special issue will be edited by Juha Tuunainen and Kari Kantasalmi.

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• CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue On Bruno Latour And Environmental Governance

  2016-02-11

  Deadline: 28 September 2015

  This Special Issue of Science & Technology Studies takes as its starting point the idea that Latour’s work can be used to explain and understand the workings of environmental governance, taking the IPCC as a prime example (where scientific facts arise as a compromise between various interests, processes of translation and purification, etc.), but also to hint towards ways in which institutions at the environmental science–policy interface (such as the IPCC) can fulfil their much-needed roles as scientific institutions able to interface with the demands of its various audiences, including policymakers and more and less concerned citizens.

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• CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue On Critique And Complicity: STS And Global Health

  2016-02-11

  Deadline: 15 September 2015

  This call for papers is concerned with two disciplinary fields, commonly referred to as ‘STS’ and ‘Global Health’, and how they encounter each other. The special issue will provoke discussion about the analytical, methodological and practical encounters of these fields and the nature of that engagement. STS has exposed the often latent political and economic interests which infuse seemingly objective scientific data and practices, troubling ideas of expertise and the neutrality of scientific knowledge. In so doing, the STS sensibilities of impartiality and symmetry have proved incisive analytical tools in examining science and technology. In bringing these two strands together, we also aim to shed light on STS’s sets of “methodological reality practices” (Law 2008), which have often posited STS as first and foremost a critical enterprise which is non-interventional, apolitical, agnostic, and symmetrical.

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• CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue On Numbering, Numbers And After Numbers: Doing & Undoing Calculative Practices

  2016-02-11

  Deadline: 31 December 2015

  Numbers matter in science, technology and in myriad further fields. Relating to the ubiquitous presence of numbers and numbering, STS has been developing and drawing on a range of analytics in generative studies of numbers and numbering (e.g. Lave 1988, Porter 1995, Verran 2001). Among recent innovations in STS analytics of numbers and numbering, four lines of work recruit a dynamics of referencing and application: H. Verran’s investigations of numbering and enumerated entities, K. Asdal’s approach to studying the relation between (non-)use of numbers and authority, the conversations between F. Cochoy, M. Callon and J. Law on the intersection of quantification and qualification and the analytical promise of the neologist term qualculation, and the study of valuation in the context of C.F. Helgesson and F. Muniesa's Valuation Studies that involves engaging how quantifying values and how valuing something relates to numbering it. This special issue invites contributors to apply and scrutinise, rather than “merely” apply, such recent analytic innovations through empirical engagement. By this we hope to foreground how analysing numbering, interrogating enumerated entities, and revealing calculations and their intersections with qualifications, separately and together contribute to STS scholarship.

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