4S Mission
Fostering interdisciplinary and engaged scholarship in social studies of science, technology, and medicine across the globe.
Latest 4S News
Call for Proposals for Special Issues: STHV
Published On: Mar 7, 2024
Deadline: Jun 21, 2024
The editorial group of Science, Technology, & Human Values announces the journal’s 2024 Call for Proposals for Special Issues. Interested scholars should submit a proposal by 21 June 2024. In August 2024, the editors of ST&HV will choose one Special Issue proposal to proceed. The editors may also select and invite other proposals to proceed as shorter Thematic Collections if suitable. Diversity of contributions from scholars internationally, and at different career stages, is encou...
Seeking Nominations for ASA Anti-Racism Awards
Published On: Mar 2, 2024
Deadline: Mar 15, 2024
The 4S community is invited to submit nominations for two prizes from the American Sociological Association (ASA) recognizing antiracism scholarship and practice it the intersection of science, knowledge, technology, and society.
Support for the integrity of Argentina’s science system (ISC)
Published On: Mar 1, 2024
In an letter to the network of authorities of research institutions in Argentina (RAICyT), the ISC expresses its concern regarding the future of Argentina’s science system. The ISC offers its assistance in working with local and regional communities to develop a robust science sector which contributes to Argentina’s social, environmental and economic success.
4S Publications
Science, Technology, and Human Values
For more than forty years, Science, Technology, & Human Values has provided the forum for cutting-edge research and debate in the field of science and technology studies.
Coding Beauty and Decoding Ugliness: The Role of Aesthetic Concerns in Programming Practices
Marina Fedorova
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
In this article, we analyze the productive role of aesthetics in organizing technoscientific work. Specifically, we investigate how aesthetic judgments form and inform...
The Politics of Amphibiousness: Shifting Coastal Management in the Netherlands
Marieke Meesters
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
This paper explores the consequences of a shift in Dutch coastal management. The management approach transitioned from aiming to keep the sea at bay toward the stimulation...
Unscripted Practices for Uncertain Events: Organizational Problems in Cybersecurity Incident Management
Ashwin Jacob Mathew
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
Scripts can help us understand the designer–user relationship, by offering analysis of designers’ intent in technological objects and examination of users’ behaviors...
Vanguard Visions of Vertical Farming: Envisaging and Contesting an Emerging Food Production System
Mascha Gugganig
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
Vertical farming is an emerging urban food growth proposal that has gained considerable attention for its ability to be space-efficient, independent of outside weather...
Seeing Like a Model Fish: How Digital Extractions Mediate Metabolic Relations
Susanne Bauer
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Ahead of Print.
Digital models have become key sites of biological practice and science policy. This paper examines efforts to craft a digital salmon model for metabolic research. It traces...
Engaging Science, Technology and Society
Engaging Science, Technology, & Society is an online, open access publication of The Society for Social Studies of Science.
Innovationism Across Transnational Landscapes
Published On: Dec 31 2023
Noela Invernizzi, Emily York, Clément Dréano, Duygu Kaşdoğan, Ali Kenner, Aalok Khandekar, Angela Okune, Grant Jun Otsuki, Sujatha Raman, Tim Schütz, Federico Vasen, Amanda Windle
This editorial introduces the thematic collection on STS and innovation. The collection includes eleven Engagements exploring the relationships between innovation studies (IS) and STS across various geographies. There is also...
Masking (Not Masking) Up: An STS Visual-Intersectional Approach to Understanding Publics and Science in Times of Rapid Change
Published On: Dec 31 2023
Susan Bell, Patrick Grzanka, Kelly Joyce, Laura Senier
In this paper we argue that a visual-intersectional approach can advance the field of science and technology studies (STS). Although there is a small but important body of work using visual methods in STS, it has rarely incorporated...
STS and Innovation: Borderlands, Regenerations and Critical Engagements
Published On: Dec 31 2023
Alan Irwin
This introduction to a thematic collection on the relationship between STS and innovation poses three main questions. When it comes to engaging with and acting upon socio-technical change, is ‘innovation’ part of the solution...
Bringing Fences Down: The Role of Critical Innovation Studies in Engaging STS with Innovation and the Contribution of Benoît Godin
Published On: Dec 31 2023
Tiago Brandão, Carolina Bagattolli
Innovation has constituted a subject of key interest for quite some time. However, only a few fields and scholars have embraced the challenge of finding ways to deconstruct our contemporary society’s most recurrent mantra. Questioning...
4S Blog: Backchannels
Spiders, Sex, and Slippages
Humanity in Symbiosis: Lessons from the Deep
Categories as Prisons: or How Not to Write the History of the Scientific Revolution, Part I
The Scope of Ayurveda Oncology
Backchannels content is contributed by our members to highlight news relevant to their work.
Making and Doing: STS Beyond the Four Corners of the Paper
4S on Twitter
Tweets by 4sWebSTS News
Items submitted by the community and emailed to members monthly.