scholarly journals Contribuições do campo ciência, tecnologia e sociedade para a disseminação do conhecimento

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciléia Aparecida Colombo ◽  
Marcelo Fetz
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Science Technology Society ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Over Time

Os estudos de Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade são recentes no Brasil, mas vêm encontrando um espaço crescente no meio acadêmico, devido à sua importância no que concerne à capacidade de estabelecimento de diálogos com diversas áreas do conhecimento. As constantes transformações na sociedade, com a complexidade das demandas sociais, alinhadas com modificações na ciência e na tecnologia foram decisivas para que o campo CTS adquirisse protagonismo ao longo do tempo. Este dossiê tem a incumbência de contribuir para o debate, no qual apresentamos artigos com uma multiplicidade de áreas do conhecimento, delineando um espaço privilegiado de interdisciplinaridade. Justifica-se, sobretudo, porque a partir desta iniciativa, outros pesquisadores poderão contribuir com o debate, preenchendo e aumentando a construção deste espaço do saber.The studies of Science, Technology and Society are recent in Brazil, but have been finding an increasing space in the academic environment, due to its importance in the capacity to establish dialogues with several areas of knowledge. The constant transformations in society, with the complexity of social demands, aligned with changes in science and technology were decisive for the CTS field to take center stage over time. This dossier has the task of contributing to the debate, in which we present articles with a multiplicity of areas of knowledge, outlining a privileged space of interdisciplinarity. It is mainly justified because from this initiative other researchers can contribute to the debate, filling and increasing the construction of this space of knowledge.Keywords: Science, Technology, Society, Interdisciplinarity.

scholarly journals Introduction: Talking STS

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fadhila Mazanderani ◽  
Isabel Fletcher ◽  
Pablo Schyfter
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Talking STS is a collection of interviews and accompanying reflections on the origins, the present and the future of the field referred to as Science and Technology Studies or Science, Technology and Society (STS). The volume assembles the thoughts and recollections of some of the leading figures in the making of this field. The occasion for producing the collection has been the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of Edinburgh’s Science Studies Unit (SSU). The Unit’s place in the history of STS is consequently a recurring theme of the volume. However, the interviews assembled here have a broader purpose – to present interviewees’ situated and idiosyncratic experiences and perspectives on STS, going beyond the contributions made to it by any one individual, department or institution. Both individually and collectively, these conversations provide autobiographically informed insights on STS. Together with the reflections, they prompt further discussion, reflection and questioning about this constantly evolving field.

A Field of Its Own

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Jasanoff
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Graduate Degrees ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Innovative Work

This chapter presents science and technology studies (STS) as a new island in a preexisting disciplinary archipelago. As a field, STS combines two strands of work dealing, respectively, with the nature and practices of science and technology (S&T) and the relationships between science, technology, and society. As such, STS research focuses on distinctive objects of inquiry and employs novel discourses and methods. The field confronts three significant barriers to achieving greater intellectual coherence, and institutional recognition. First, it must persuade skeptical scientists and university administrators of the need for a critical perspective on S&T. Second, it must demonstrate that traditional disciplines do not adequately analyze S&T. Third, it has to overcome STS scholars’ reluctance to create intellectual boundaries and membership criteria that appear to exclude innovative work. A generation of scholars with graduate degrees in STS are helping to meet these challenges.

scholarly journals Who shapes plant biotechnology in Germany? Joint analysis of the evolution of co-authors’ and co-inventors’ networks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariia Shkolnykova
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Plant Biotechnology ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Joint Analysis ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Innovative Environment ◽  
Mining Tools ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThe interdependence of science and technology has been of high interest for researchers from different fields for several decades now. As they represent different means of knowledge output protection, patents and research articles generally have different reasons for creation and different audiences. However, some of the inventors may be interested in making an impact on the scientific community and vice versa. This interaction between technology space (patents) and science space (articles) is especially important for high-technology fields, where both research institutions and enterprises play important roles in the innovative environment. This paper investigates the interaction between science and technology in the case of German plant biotechnology. With the help of network analysis tools, the evolution and co-evolution of co-inventors’ and co-authors’ networks for the period 1995–2015 is explored. Finally, the topics of the patents and papers from the overlap were analyzed with the help of text mining tools in order to identify the differences of topics between science/technology and their overlap. As a result, sizable differences in nature and advancement are observed between the two network types. Although the overlap between these spheres of innovative activities increased over time, the role author-inventors played in the science or technology space varied.

Prospective Chemists’ and Pre-service Chemistry Teachers’ Views about Science-Technology-Society (STS) Issues/Stavovi budućih kemičara i budućih nastavnika kemije o problemima znanstveno-tehnološkog društva (ZTD)

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bülent Pekdağ
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Chemistry Teachers ◽  
Written Responses ◽  
Science Technology Society ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Research Questions

AbstractThe present study aims to investigate the views of prospective chemists and pre-service chemistry teachers about science-technology-society (STS) issues, attempting to examine the differences between these views. A questionnaire that included 4 open-ended questions was distributed to 67 senior university students to determine what their views were on STS issues. The data was collected from the students written responses to the open-ended questions. The data gathered from the two groups of students was analyzed qualitatively from the perspective of responding to the research questions. It was observed that while prospective chemists mostly defined science from epistemological and philosophical perspectives, pre-service chemistry teachers frequently explained science from epistemological and pedagogical perspectives. The results revealed that the meanings of science and technology in the minds of the students in both groups showed some important differences in this sample. Additionally, students in both groups stated that science and technology affected society both negatively and positively.Key words: science-technology-society (STS); prospective chemists; pre-service chemistry teachers---SažetakCilj ovoga rada bio je istražiti stajalita budućih kemičara i budućih nastavnika kemije o problemima znanstveno-tehnolokog drutva (ZTD), s pokuajem razmatranja razlika u njihovim stajalitima. Upitnik koji se sastojao od 4 pitanja otvorenoga tipa podijeljen je skupini od 67 studenata u viim godinama studija kako bi se odredila njihova stajalita o problemima ZTD-a. Podatci su prikupljeni iz odgovora studenata na pitanja otvorenoga tipa. Podatci koji su prikupljeni od dviju skupina studenata analizirani su kvantitativno iz perspektive odgovora na zadana pitanja. Uočeno je da budući kemičari uglavnom definiraju znanost iz epistemoloke i filozofske perspektive, a budući nastavnici kemije učestalo objanjavaju znanost iz epistemoloke i pedagoke perspektive. Rezultati su otkrili da se značenje znanosti i tehnologije kod studenata iz obje skupine u proučenom uzorku bitno razlikuju. Nadalje, studenti u obje skupine ustvrdili su da znanost i tehnologija utječu na drutvo na negativan i pozitivan način.Ključne riječi: znanstveno-tehnoloko drutvo (ZTD); budući kemičari; budući nastavnici kemije

scholarly journals Situating Technoscience: An Inquiry into Spatialities

10.1068/d243t ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 609-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Law ◽  
Annemarie Mol
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Place Studies ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Narrow Networks

This paper explores the spatial characteristics of science and technology. Originally seen as universal, and therefore outside space and place, studies in science, technology, and society (STS) located it first in specific locations—laboratories—and then in narrow networks linking laboratories. This double location implied that science is caught up in and enacts two topological forms— region and network—since objects in networks hold their shape by freezing relations rather than fixing Euclidean coordinates. More recent STS work suggests that science and technology also exist in and help to enact additional spatial forms. Thus some technoscience objects are fluid, holding their form by shifting their relations. And yet others achieve constancy by enacting simultaneous absence and presence, a topological possibility which we call here fire. The paper concludes by arguing that the ‘global’ includes and is enacted in all four of these topological systems.

scholarly journals The Floating Ampersand: STS Past and STS to Come

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Jasanoff
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
External Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come

STS has become a discipline in the sense that it offers new ways to read and make sense of the world. It remains an amalgam, however, of two linked yet separate lines of inquiry, both abbreviated as STS. Science and technology studies refers to the investigation of S&T as social institutions; science, technology and society, by contrast, analyzes the external relations of S&T with other institutions, such as law or politics. This essay reflects on the implications of this ambiguity for institutionalizing STS as a field of its own, drawing on the author’s experiences in building STS at two universities.

scholarly journals A critical analysis of information society conceptualizations from an STS point of view

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduard Aibar
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Technology And Society ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Social

Science and Technology Studies (STS) have developed over the last four decades very rich and deep analysis of the interaction between science, technology and society. This paper uses some STS theoretical and methodological insights and findings to identify persistent misconceptions in the specific literature on ICTs and society. Technological deterministic views, the taken-for-granted image of technological designs, the prospective character of many studies that focus mainly on potential effects, a simplistic view of uses and users, and an uncritical distinction between the technical and the social, are discussed as some of the most remarkable theoretical flaws in the field.

scholarly journals TURKISH TEACHERS’ OPINIONS ABOUT SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY-SOCIETY-ENVIRONMENT ACQUISITIONS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COURSE CURRICULUM

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-230
Author(s):  
Dilek Erduran Avci ◽  
Nazmiye Sadiye Onal ◽  
Muhammet Usak
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Science Technology Society ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Teacher Opinions ◽  
Awareness Level ◽  
Technology Course

The purpose of this study is to examine teacher opinions about science-technology-society-environment (STSE) acquisitions in Turkish Science and Technology Course Curriculum (TSTC). For this purpose, semi-structured interviews were performed with teachers. The participants were addressed questions about their awareness of STSE acquisitions and their in-class activity about these acquisitions. Learning fields of the teachers, the contents of these fields and the opinions of the teachers about STSE pointed out that their awareness level about STSE acquisitions was low. On the other hand, most of the teachers stated that there was enough and comprehensible information about STSE acquisitions in TSTC. The results of this study revealed that most of the teachers were not able to realize these acquisitions in the courses because of a lack of time or equipment and overcrowded classes. Key words: science and technology course curriculum, science-technology-society-environment acquisitions, teacher opinions.

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