TechnoScienceSociety : technological reconfigurations of science and society / Sabine Maasen, Sascha Dickel, Christoph Schneider, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maasen, Sabine, 1960- editor.

Dickel, Sascha, editor.

Schneider, Christoph (Sociologist), editor.

Series:

Sociology of the sciences ; v. 30.

Sociology of the sciences yearbook, 0167-2320 ; volume 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Social aspects.

Technological innovations.

Science--Social aspects.

Science.

Physical Description:

vi, 306 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Techno Science Society

Technological reconfigurations of science and society

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]

Summary:

This book introduces the term of TechnoScienceSociety to focus on the ongoing technological reconfigurations of science and society. It aspires to use the breadth of Science and Technology Studies to perform a critical diagnosis of our contemporary culture. Instead of constructing technology as society's "other", the book sets out to highlight the both complex and ambivalent entanglements of technologies, sciences and socialities. It provides some tentative steps towards a diagnosis of a society in which individuals and organizations address themselves, their pasts, presents, futures, hopes and problems in technoscientific modes. Technosciences redesign matter, life, self and society. However, they do not operate independently: Technoscientific practices are deeply socially and culturally constituted. The diverse contributions highlight the ongoing technological reconfigurations of rationalities, infrastructures, modes of governance, and publics. The book aims to inspire scholars and students to think and analyze contemporary conditions in new ways drawing on, and expanding, the toolkits of Science and Technology Studies.

Contents:

Technosciencesociety: technological reconfigurations of science and society: an introduction / Sabine Maasen, Sascha Dickel, and Christoph Schneider

part 1. TechnoScienceRationalities. The advancement of ignorance / Alfred Nordmann

Tracing the technoscientific core of late-modern technologies in TechnoScienceSocieties / Jan Cornelius Schmidt

The development of research methods as driving force of technoscience / Carsten Reinhardt

On the emergence of TechnoSociety by way of neuroculturality, for example / Sabine Maasen

part 2. TechnoScienceInfrastructures. The material politics of infrastructure / Andrew Barry

What if nothing happens? Street trials of intelligent cars as experiments in participation / Noortje Marres

Biofacts, bioprospecting, biobanking: a reality check of seed banks / Nicole C. Karafyllis

Music, recommender systems and the techno-politics of platforms, data, and algorithms / Jan-H. Passoth

part 3. TechnoScienceGovernance. Governing technoscience in society: tracing the dialectics of enthusiasm, ambivalence, and adjustment / Erik Fisher

The politics of technoscience: from national visions to global problems / David Kaldewey, Daniela Russ, and Julia Schubert

TechnoSecuritySociety: catastrophic futures, pre-emptive security & mass surveillance / Michael Nagenborg and Jutta Weber

Mobilizing the emergence of phronetic TechnoScienceSocieties: low-carbon e-mobility in China / David Tyfield

part 4. TechnoSciencePublics. Technoscientific citizenship in citizen science. Assembling crowds for biomedical research / Sascha Dickel

Anti-modern techno-science: cybernetics, ontology, practice in the European hacker tradition / maxigas

An unfolding TechKnowledgy: technology and knowledge in open digital fabrication / Christoph Schneider.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Other Format:

Online version: TechnoScienceSociety.

ISBN:

9783030439644

303043964X

OCLC:

1191848712