Depicting the Uncertainties of Stem Cell Science: First Sort, Then Splice, Then Represent 6 Aug 2013 | 11:10 am

Stem cell researchers labor in unpredictable circumstances, beset by uncertainties allied to the study of cellular signaling behaviors. STS research, based primarily on the work of Star (1985), has de...

Pushes and Pulls: Hi(S)tory of the Demand Pull Model of Innovation 6 Aug 2013 | 11:10 am

Much has been written about the linear model of innovation. While it may have been the dominant model used to explain technological innovation for decades, alternatives did exist. One such alternative...

The Raw is Cooked: Data in Intelligence Practice 6 Aug 2013 | 11:10 am

This article looks at some common assumptions and associated work practices within a military intelligence community. There intelligence practitioners use the term "raw data" as a common sense categor...

Learning through Computer Model Improvisations 6 Aug 2013 | 11:10 am

It has been convincingly argued that computer simulation modeling differs from traditional science. If we understand simulation modeling as a new way of doing science, the manner in which scientists l...

Classifying, Constructing, and Identifying Life: Standards as Transformations of "The Biological" 6 Aug 2013 | 11:10 am

Recent accounts of "the biological" emphasize its thoroughgoing transformation. Accounts of biomedicalization, biotechnology, biopower, biocapital, and bioeconomy tend to agree that twentieth- and twe...

Review Essay: 2012. Enquete sur les modes d'existence 18 Jun 2013 | 09:44 am

Varieties of Biosocial Imagination: Reframing Responses to Climate Change and Antibiotic Resistance 18 Jun 2013 | 09:44 am

The authors present climate change and antibiotic resistance as emergent biosocial phenomena—ongoing products of massively multiple interactions among human lifestyles and broader life processes. They...

Articulating Scientific Practice with PROTEE: STS, Loyalties, and the Limits of Reflexivity 18 Jun 2013 | 09:44 am

Scientific knowledge is the outcome of a collective, for example, of experts, methods, equipment, and experimental sites. The configuration of the collective shapes the scientific findings, allowing s...

Dying Bees and the Social Production of Ignorance 18 Jun 2013 | 09:44 am

This article utilizes the ongoing debates over the role of certain agricultural insecticides in causing Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)—the phenomenon of accelerated bee die-offs in the United States a...

The Coproduction of "Sustainability": Negotiated Practices and the Prius 18 Jun 2013 | 09:44 am

Much of the debate on sustainability is predicated on the belief that environmental demands lead to the production of sustainable technologies that induce environmental benefits. This fails to account...