Vol 6 (2020)

Table of Contents

Editorials

A Five-Year Engagement
Abby J. Kinchy, Shobita Parthasarathy, Jason Delborne
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411-415

Research Articles

What I Learnt About How I Learnt About Behavioral Economists
Zara Thokozani Kamwendo
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391-410
STS, Post-truth, and the Rediscovery of Bullshit
Bennett Holman
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370-390
Producing the “Highway to Nowhere”: Social Understandings of Space in Baltimore, 1944-1974
Amanda K. Phillips de Lucas
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351-369
Anachronistic Progress? User Notions of Lie Detection in the Juridical Field
Bettina Paul, Larissa Fischer, Torsten H. Voigt
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328-346
On Half-Built Assemblages: Waiting for a Data Center in Prineville, Oregon
Jenna Burrell
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283-305
Engaging Theatre, Activating Publics: Theory and Practice of a Performance on Darwin
Saul E. Halfon, Cora Olson, Ann Kilkelly, Jane L. Lehr
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255-282
The Myths and Moral Economies of Digital ID and Mobile Money in India and Myanmar
Janaki Srinivasan, Elisa Oreglia
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215-236
Scaling Techno-Optimistic Visions
Seyram Avle, Cindy Lin, Jean Hardy, Silvia Lindtner
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237-254
Keep Diversity––Make Standards! Spaces of Standardization for Diversity Analyzed through Cattle Breeding Industry
Lidia Chavinskaia, Allison Marie Loconto
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193-214
The Blank Slate E-State: Estonian Information Society and the Politics of Novelty in the 1990s
Aro Velmet
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162-184
When Mental Walls Lead to Physical Walls: The US-Mexico Border Wall, Art, and Public Conversations about the Social Responsibility of Engineering
Madison May Macias, Peter Pohorily, Jorge Morales Guerrero, Darshan M.A. Karwat
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142-161
Labor Out of Place: On the Varieties and Valences of (In)visible Labor in Data-Intensive Science
Michael J. Scroggins, Irene V. Pasquetto
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111-132
Enchanted Determinism: Power without Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence
Alexander Campolo, Kate Crawford
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1-19

Considering Concepts

Unintended by Design: On the Political Uses of “Unintended Consequences”
Nassim Parvin, Anne Pollock
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320-327
Regimes of Patienthood: Developing an Intersectional Concept to Theorize Illness Experiences
Kelly Ann Joyce, Jennifer E. James, Melanie Jeske
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185-192
The Methodologists: a Unique Category of Scientific Actors
Nicole C. Nelson
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20-33

Critical Engagements

Pandemic Sociology
Martyn Pickersgill
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347-350
The Conjoined Spectacles of the “Smart Super Bowl”
Renee Shelby, Sarah Barnes, Nassim Parvin, Mary G. McDonald
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312-319
Lessons from Theranos: Changing Narratives of Individual Ethics in Science and Engineering
Melanie Jeske
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306-311
Sticks, Stones, and the Secular Bones of Indian Democracy
Monamie Bhadra Haines, Sreela Sarkar
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133-141
Low-Carbon Research: Building a Greener and More Inclusive Academy
Anne Pasek
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34-38
Upgraded to Obsolescence: Age Intervention in the Era of Biohacking
Kirsten L. Ellison
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39-44

Thematic Collections

From Sideline to Frontline: STS in the Trump Era
Daniel Lee Kleinman
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45-48
We Have Never Been Anti-Science: Reflections on Science Wars and Post-Truth
Michael Lynch
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49-57
Du Boisian Propaganda, Foucauldian Genealogy, and Antiracism in STS Research
Anthony Ryan Hatch
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58-65
Drought, Hurricane, or Wildfire? Assessing the Trump Administration’s Anti-Science Disaster
Scott Frickel, Christopher M. Rea
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66-75
STS Currents against the “Anti-Science” Tide
Abby J. Kinchy
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76-80
Learning in Crisis: Training Students to Monitor and Address Irresponsible Knowledge Construction by US Federal Agencies under Trump
Chris Tirrell, Laura Senier, Sara Ann Wylie, Cole Alder, Grace Poudrier, Jesse DiValli, Marcy Beck, Eric Nost, Rob Brackett, Gretchen Gehrke
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81-93
Hidden Injustice and Anti-Science
Laurel Smith-Doerr
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94-101
Science and Democracy Reconsidered
Joseph Harris
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102-110