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... U.S.-Iran Workshop on Science and Technology and the Future Development of Societies Office for Central Europe and Eurasia Development, Security, and Cooperation Policy and Global Affairs Copyright ... understanding what information is needed for a policy decision and understanding the perspective and context of the “client.” Just as in any communication initiative, it is essential to understand ... Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Jacobs, K 2003 Connecting Science, Policy, and Decision-Making: A Handbook for Researchers and Science Agencies Silver Spring, MD: National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

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... mechanisms, and delineating reciprocal influences; and normative in its commitment to understanding the ethics and values implicit in science and technology and to using that understanding to guide ... endeavor—truth and power and justice and equity and democracy and asks how these can be conserved and consolidated in modern society, so that the immense possibilities of scientific knowledge and technological ... studies of science and technology, and between STS and policy-relevant research; a lack of comparative research across disciplines and nations; and a bias toward studying the bigger and harder sciences...

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... in Science and Technology Studies 69 There is a structurally similar and related contrast between liberal and communitarian approaches in both political theory and the philosophy and sociology ... the way in which science and technology incorporate and embed particular interests and values, critical theory aims both to expose dominatory values and to suggest the possibility of inscribing ... rationality, empiricism, and scientific and technological progress The “Great Traditions” in the philosophy, history, and sociology of science—represented, for example, by the Vienna Circle and Karl Popper...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... (1993), Clarke (2005), Christensen and Casper (2000), and Star and Strauss (1999) On boundary objects and infrastructures, see Star and Griesemer (1989) and Bowker and Star (1999) On work objects, ... sites, and technology (ies), see Strauss (1978) and Strauss et al (1985) On subworlds/segments and reform movements, see Bucher (1962; Bucher & Strauss, 1961) and Clarke and Montini (1993) On bandwagons ... of the real The latter include divisions of subject and object, human and nonhuman, nature and culture, and relatedly, same and other, us and them Feminist scholars most directly have illuminated...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... contexts and places but facilitates discussions of processes of the de- and recontextualization of knowledge and the merging of micro and macro levels And yet, as Christopher Henke and Thomas ... Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) Figueroa, Robert & Sandra Harding (eds) (2003) Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies and Science and ... (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer): 179–97 200 Warwick Anderson and Vincanne Adams Kubicek, Robert (1999) “British Expansion, Empire, and Technological Change,” in Andrew Porter (ed), The...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... Mind, Culture and Activity 3(1): 54–63 Latour, Bruno (1986b) “Visualization and Cognition: Thinking with Eyes and Hands,” Knowledge and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Culture, Past and Present ... posters and films, advertisements, and photographs in order to disclose social inequalities, personal and political identities, and disciplinary and economic formations Images traverse scientific and ... physics, engineering, and mathematics—creating not just trans-disciplinary visual and digital standards but new trading zones in visual and interactive instruments, algorithms, and concepts ENGAGEMENT...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... Networks and Fluids: Anaemia and Social Topology,” Social Studies of Science 24: 641–72 Müller-Wille, Staffan (2003) “Joining Lapland and the Topinambes in Flourishing Holland: Center and Periphery ... both STS and information studies See, for example, Voorbij (1999), Cronin and Atkins (2000), Kling and McKim (2000), Borgman and Furner (2002), Fry (2004), Bohlin, (2004), Heimeriks (2005) and the ... to offer free and open Web access to all 12 Recent reviews and exemplary cases of this work can be found in Wellman and Haythornthwaite (2002), Nissenbaum and Price (2004), Miller and Slater (2000),...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... the understanding and management of diseases, shaped research and technologies, and influenced policies and markets Comparisons across cases and cultures, studies of the life course and dynamics ... initiated by scientists near one pole and protest movements near the other We now understand that interactions between experts and publics are fluid and dynamic; and that this invites systematic, ... really happened, and STS research of recent years has changed our understanding of the engagement of science and technology with politics and publics Today, decisions involving science and technology...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... between “expert” and “lay,” but also between “civil society,” “the state,” and “the market,” and of course—between “science” and “politics” (Epstein, 2001) Observation of patient groups and health ... groups and health movements—among others, how they form and organize, what kinds of expertise they develop and deploy, how they affect the practice of medicine and biomedical research, and how ... problematize the biological body, challenge existing scientific and medical knowledge, and involve collaborations between activists and scientists and health professionals (Brown et al., 2004a) An intense...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... Instead, and as the concept of co-production would also imply, forms of knowledge and understanding are contextually generated and simultaneously embody understandings of both the natural and social ... objects may change the form and practical and symbolic functions of artifacts, and it may enable or constrain performances of identities and negotiations of status and social position (Silverstone ... Pinch (eds), Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (Thousand Oaks, CA, London, and New Delhi: Sage): 229–56 Bijker, W E & Pinch, T J (1987) “The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts:...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... science and technology and law, describes how their cultural 634 Olga Amsterdamska and epistemological authority is reflected and legitimated in their different fact- and order-making practices and ... best—liberal and democratic—political and economic values and principles In both cases, this social and cultural superiority of science translated into a justification for its need to maintain cognitive and ... commercialization and globalization of science These changes are addressed here directly in two chapters: one by Jennifer Croissant and Laurel Smith-Doerr and the other by Mirowski and Sent Croissant and Smith-Doerr...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... between academic and market logics and values, exchange in personnel, transfers of intellectual property, and governance issues We look at the broader political and economic contexts and at global ... (1992), and on the shift from “spin-off” to “dualuse” terminology, see Mollas-Gallart (1997) and Cowan and Foray (1995) Science, Technology, and the Military: Priorities, Preoccupations, and Possibilities ... Science and Engineering Ethics 9: 49–57 Morey, Ann (2004) “Globalization and the Emergence of For-Profit Higher Education,” Higher Education 48: 131–50 Morin, Alexander (1993) Science Policy and Politics...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... financial markets, intellectual property, and criminal justice—demand an intense and ongoing collaboration between the institutions of law and those of science and technology (Jasanoff, 1995) Elucidating ... science and technology; we need equally to follow law-work and law-workers as they pass into and through the workplaces of science and technology Second, the divergent cultural attributes and ambitions ... influence of legal imperatives and imaginations, and of necessity the work of legal practitioners and institutions The law, moreover, operates with its own ideas of facticity and truth that are not identical...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... Technological systems and the information they provide also affect family and work life, regulate individuals and societies using medically derived norms, and participate in the selection and application ... industrial developers and suppliers of goods and services might lead to this particular assembly of medical-biological, communications, and engineering technologies, and what new knowledge and entities ... define health and illness, reformulate categories of normal and abnormal, make judgments about individuals and populations, provide predictors of risk, and then plan future services and technologies...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... comparability, and memorization, assumptions that are incorporated into recording procedures and technologies and reflected in analysis and interpretation How are these assumptions produced, and which ... financial models and vernacular economics, the relationship between academic theories and nonacademic ones, and vernacular forms of financial knowledge and theories The field shows enough depth and relevance ... MODIFICATION AND GM PLANTS AND FOODS The second issue to dominate environmental policy and debate, and also to dominate STS inquiries, in the last decade has been genetically modified (GM) crops and food...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... new media and information society issues Her current projects include Media and Meaning: Understanding Communication, Technology, and Society (forthcoming) and Understanding Alternative and Activist ... Amanda, 595, 827, 891 Amsterdamska, Olga, 130, 228, 255, 274 Andersen, Svein, 468 Anderson, Benjamin, 517 Anderson, Howard, 658, 679 Anderson, Katherine, 308 Anderson, M S., 691, 697, 701 Anderson, ... “establish a common understanding and to facilitate a Europewide dialogue among science, business and civil society about its benefits and potential impacts.” After a mapping and polling exercise,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... 1940s and 1950s, 18 ambiguous relation with science and technology, 454–455 contestation of place through protest and vandalism, 368–369 formal initiatives promoting, 457–459 incorporation and ... information and price as epistemic themes, 902–907 financial models, technology, and risk, 914–915 impact of theoretical models and technology, 909–914 introduction, 901–902 social and cultural ... conclusion, 369 contestation through domestic protest and vandalism, 368–369 contesting science, 365–369 experiential and embodied understanding of, 366–367 face-to-face communication in, 357–359...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:23

... status, future prospects and policy implications Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2001, 5(1), 97–112 [2] GATE and GTZ German Appropriate Technology Exchange (GATE) and German Agency for ... of Science and Technology, 2009 [4] GATE and GTZ German Appropriate Technology Exchange (GATE) and German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Biogas Digest Volume II: Application and Product ... energy conversion and utilization, wastewater treatment, renewable energy technology and policy, and CDM proposal development He is also an associate of The Energy Centre, KNUST and a founding member...

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