scholarly journals Editorial Note of Farewell and Gratitude to ESTS Reviewers

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 615
Author(s):  
Daniel Lee Kleinman ◽  
Katie Vann
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Society Journal ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Governing Council ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Many

In response to the desire of the governing council of the Society for Social Studies of Science to have an online open access Society journal, we were asked to build Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. We did so and launched the journal in 2015. Today, in December 2020, we write to say farewell, and to thank the many reviewers who selflessly gave their time, energy, and expertise to support the journal and the efforts of other authors. On the eve of our departure, we delight in the strength of ESTS and the quality of papers that have been published over the six annual volumes realized since 2015. And in this moment in history, when so many incentives exist for scholars to confine their energy to self-serving activities and show indifference to the quality of literature produced, the good will and actions of the reviewers who have enabled the development and growth of ESTS are what we deeply appreciate. To those ESTS reviewers who are shown below, Thank You. And to those of you who read this, when you see those listed you should know, “There is someone who demonstrated a commitment to quality STS scholarship and to the field.”

scholarly journals A Five-Year Engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 411
Author(s):  
Abby J. Kinchy ◽  
Shobita Parthasarathy ◽  
Jason Delborne
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Editorial Essay

In this editorial essay, Abby Kinchy, Shobita Parthasarathy, and Jason Delborne look back at the editorial and publishing practices of the first five-years of the journal Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS), the open access journal of The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). As three members of the inaugural ESTS Editorial Board, Kinchy, Parthasarathy, and Delborne reflect on what we value in academic practice, including publishing, and consider some of the highlights and accomplishments of ESTS’s first five years (2015-2020).

scholarly journals Levantamento de artigos sobre Interação humano-computador em periódicos de ciência, tecnologia e sociedade

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (33) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milene Rosa de Almeida Moura ◽  
Luzia Sigoli Fernandes Costa
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
Science Technology

As tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TICs) estão inseridas em boa parte das atividades diárias das pessoas. A capacidade de o usuário compreender e fazer um bom uso de uma determinada tecnologia é objeto de estudo da Interação Humano-Computador (IHC). Neste artigo, apresentamos teoricamente a IHC e os Estudos Sociais da Ciência e Tecnologia (ESCT) com a finalidade de contextualizar nossa pesquisa, baseada em levantamento bibliográfico sobre a temática IHC nos periódicos Social Studies of Science; Science, Technology and Society; Science, Technology, & Human Values; Science Communication e Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, desde o lançamento de cada periódico até o ano 2016. Como resultado, todos os artigos recuperados abrangem o período de 2003 a 2011, distantes em quase uma década do início das pesquisas relacionando a IHC com o campo Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade (CTS).

scholarly journals Editorial Note: Fast Peer Review: A Practice of Predatory Journals or Fair Treatment for Authors?

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (27) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jovan Shopovski ◽  
Robert W. McGee ◽  
Daniel B. Hier
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
On Line

Despite its weaknesses, peer review is our best gatekeeper of rigorous science. With the advent of on-line and open-access publishing, a vigorous debate has ensued over the timeliness of peer review. Many of us remember, and some still face, long peer review and publishing timeframes. Ware and Mabe (2015) estimated that a reviewer needs from several hours to a day to carefully prepare a peer review. Even so, the time from submission to first decision varies from 8 weeks to 18 weeks and varies by academic discipline and journal. Although the slowness of the peer review process has been critiqued (Lotriet, 2012), long ingrained processes have been slow to change. The development of the open access publishing has brought to the forefront the need to speed the peer review process and reduce the time to publication. However, short peer review times have been cited as one of the hallmarks of predatory journals (Cobey at al. 2018). Some have suggested that a faster and more agile peer review process may undermine the quality of published research (Bagdasarian et al. 2020).

scholarly journals Searching for how Epistemic Power is Made, Appropriated, Circulated, and Challenged

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-119
Author(s):  
Sharon Traweek ◽  
Duygu Kaşdoğan ◽  
Kim Fortun
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Audio File ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many ◽  
Virtual Conference

In the 2020 Prague Virtual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Sharon Traweek was awarded the society’s John D. Bernal Prize jointly with Langdon Winner. The Bernal Prize is awarded annually to individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of STS. Prize recipients include founders of the field of STS, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to the understanding of the social dimensions of science and technology. This is an edited transcription, which accompanies the full audio file also available in this issue of the journal. The interview supplements the text of Traweek’s 2020 Bernal lecture. In this interview, Traweek discusses her research, academic career, the many influences on her life, and her thoughts on STS—in the past and in the future.

scholarly journals Editorial: Care in STS

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Lisa Lindén ◽  
Doris Lydahl
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Good Care ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
More Care ◽  
Feminist Technoscience

During the last 10 years the Science and Technology Studies (STS) community has witnessed a flourishing, intense and multifaceted engagement around “care”. While care had been addressed already before in Joanna Latimer’s The conduct of care: Understanding nursing practice (Latimer, 2000) , and in Jeanette Pols’ Good care: Enacting a complex ideal in long term-psychiatry (Pols, 2004), care seemed to be on everybody’s lips around 2010. Around the same time, the edited volume Care in practice: On tinkering in clinics, homes and farms (Mol et al., 2010) and the article Matters of care in technoscience: Assembling neglected things (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011) were published. With akin, yet partly diverging, agendas and concerns, these two key publications drastically increased the amount of research that identify with something like an area of “care studies” in STS. This can also be seen in the publication of special issues devoted to care during the last years, notably the much-cited 2015 issue in Social Studies of Science focused on feminist technoscience interventions into the politics and “darker sides” of care (Martin et al., 2015), and the more recent on relationalities and specificities of care in East Asian Science, Technology and Society (Coopmans & McNamara, 2020). Noteworthy is also the special issue on “The politics of policy practices” in The Sociological Review Monograph, where Gill et al. (2017) discuss how policy and care are entangled, and how such entanglements could be enacted more “care-fully”. These publications have spurred rich and generative engagements about ways to attend to the affective, ethico-political and/or material layers of care, within and beyond areas traditionally thought of as related to care (such as healthcare and childcare).

Sensing Race as a Ghost Variable in Science, Technology, and Medicine

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 763-778
Author(s):  
Katrina Karkazis ◽  
Rebecca Jordan-Young
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Hormone Levels ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
Analytic Models

Ghost variables are variables in program languages that do not correspond to physical entities. This special issue, based on a panel on “Race as a Ghost Variable” at the 2017 Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, traces ideas of “race” in particular niches of science, technology, and medicine where it is submerged and disavowed, yet wields power. Each paper is a case study exploring ghosts that emerge through the resonance among things as heterogeneous as hair patterns, hormone levels, food tastes, drug use, clinic locations, proximity to disaster, job classifications, and social belonging and suspicion, all of which vibrate with meanings accumulated over long racial histories. Together, the papers further elaborate methods and analytic models for identifying the operations of race—the relations and processes that make it, the effects that it has. A chief appeal of the metaphor of the ghost is that it brings the importance of history to the fore. Ghosts are simultaneously history and the present, not just an accretion of earlier experiences, but the palimpsest left when one tries to erase them. Sometimes faint and hard to discern, sometimes rambunctious and disruptive, ghosts refuse our attempts to simply move on.

scholarly journals “I Prefer the Map”

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
Sharon Traweek
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
European Association ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Virtual Conference ◽  
Acceptance Speech

In the 2020 Prague Virtual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Sharon Traweek was awarded the society’s John D. Bernal Prize jointly with Langdon Winner. The Bernal Prize is awarded annually to individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of STS. Prize recipients include founders of the field of STS, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to the understanding of the social dimensions of science and technology. This essay comprises Traweek’s acceptance speech, delivered on Monday, August 17, 2020 at the virtual joint conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), and revised and submitted for publication in Engaging Science, Technology, and Society on Sunday, September 20, 2020. In this essay, Traweek explores “certainty” in academic ways of knowing.

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