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FINAL PROGRAM 2005
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2005
4S Editorial Meeting 7:15 – 8:30 International Ballroom
SESSION 1 8:30-10:00
1.1 Tools to Manage Uncertainty: The Politics of Risk Assessment
Organizers: Olga Kuchinskaya and Jericho Burg
Discussant: S. Ravi Rajan
Del Mar Room
- Even without Politics, Would it be Manageable? Risk Analysis and Famine Prevention
Jericho Burg, University of California, San Diego
- Mobilizing Science for Risk Assessment: Environmental Risks of Genetically Engineered Organisms
Joy Hagen and Anna Zivian, University of California, Santa Cruz
- "We will die and become science": Estimating the Health Effects of Chernobyl Radiation
Olga Kuchinskaya, University of California, San Diego
- Temporal Ecologies and Political Phase-Spaces: How Dinoflagellate Temporalities May Modify the Political Practice of Science
Astrid Schrader, University of California, Santa Cruz
1.2 Science Communications San Jose Room
- Science Communication in Japan
Kohji Hirata, Sokendai
- Japan-U.S. Comparison -How was the Large Discovery Reported?
Hiromi Yokoyama............. Sokendai
- Using the Author Charge to Fund Scholarly Communication
Thomas Scheiding....... University of Notre Dame
- “Mapping Controversies”: An Experiment in Science Communication
Albena Yaneva.................. Austrian Academy of Sciences
1.3 The Socio-Technical Organization of Everyday Life: Normality, Materiality and Practice
Organizers: Anne Sofie Laegran and Elizabeth Shove
Sacramento Room
- The Choreography of Everyday Life: Constructing a Material Theory of Practice
Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University, Mika Pantzar.... National Consumer Research Centre
- Normality vs. Flexibility: Socio-Material Moralities of (Tele)-Work
Anne Sofie Laegran...............NTNU and University of Edinburgh
- Governing the Sole: The Mundane, Socio-Technical Accountability of Walking
Daniel Neyland and Steve Woolgar..University of Oxford
- Material Dialogues: Moralities of Technogical Practices
Knut H. Sørensen..........Norwegian University of Science and Technology
1.4 Historical Bodies
Santa Barbara Room
· “Discovering” the Nerves: Methodological Controversy and Priority in Early
Nineteenth-Century Physiologists
Carin Berkowitz Cornell University
· Triage and Trauma: Contested Bodies on the Battlefield in the First World War
David J. Caruso..... Cornell University
· Multiple American Methadones: The Historical Travails of a Controversial
Molecule
Nancy D Campbell.............
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· Institutionalizing the Science of Smell: Technical Values of the Community of
Osphresiology in Early Nineteenth Century
France
Thomas W. Staley Virginia Tech
1.5 What Interferes with Beneficial
Innovation?
Organizer: Edward Woodhouse
San Diego Room
· Hybrid/Electric Vehicles and the Social Reconstruction of Technology
Toluwalogo B. Odumosu............
........... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· Why Isn’t Housing More Environmentally Progressive?
Kate Boyer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· Obstacles to the Greening of Industry
Jeff Howard University of Texas, Arlington
1.6 Scientific Objects In Time: Human
Aging, Planetary Missions and
Spacecraft Design
Organizer: Charlotte Linde
Pasadena Room
· Making Aging Visible in the Lab
Vicki O'Day..................
University of California, Santa Cruz
· Multiple Temporalities of Interplanetary Work Systems
Zara Mirmalek.............
University of California, San Diego
· I Start, You Finish: Representing Multigenerational Interplanetary Missions
Lisa Faithorn..............
.. RIACS NASA Ames Research Center
· Trying Not to Build the Same Old Spacecraft: Structural and Political Issues
in Design Inheritance
Charlotte Linde................
.. NASA Ames Research Center
1.7 Science, Technology, and the
Corporation, Sub-Panel 1: Defining
Citizenship in the Market
Organizer: Shobita Parthasarathy,
Marybeth Long Martello and Alastair Iles
Discussant: Alastair Iles
Pacific Ballroom A
· Corridor Citizenship: Information Technology Corporations and Changing
Citizenship Structures in the Indian Silicon
Valley
Simanti Dasgupta...........
........... New School for Social Research
· Consumers, Citizens or Patients? Defining the Users of Genomic Technologies
Shobita Parthasarathy....
University of Michigan
· Down-to-Earth Authorities: Establishing Expertise and Responsibility in Community Advisory Panels
Gwen Ottinger..............
University of California, Berkeley
· Standardizing the Corporate Citizen
Marybeth Long Martello................ Harvard University
1.8 Self-Reflective Technical Practice:
Design Practices in Human-Computer
Interaction (Affiliated with the
International Network for Engineering
Studies)
Organizers: Carl diSalvo and Phoebe
Sengers
Pacific Ballroom B
· Audrey, Anyone?
Laurel Swan....... Brunel
Alex Taylor. Microsoft Research
· Self-Reflective Technology?
Phoebe Sengers... Cornell University
· Situated Design's Oblique Relationship with Marxism
Katie Vann.................. Virtual Knowledge Studio
· Melancholy Objects: the Meanings of Personal Photos and Emerging
Photographic Technologies
Nancy Van House.................
University of California, Berkeley
1.9 Issues of Ethics
Pacific Ballroom C
· Embryonic Stem Cells and Ethics: an Ethnography of Acientists in Two Laboratories in the United Kingdom
Clare Williams....... University of London
· Spatial Representation of Controversies: Science Communication in the Installation
‘the Stem Cell Network'
Maja Horst....... Copenhagen Business School
Birte Dalsgaard Danish Academy of Design
· Common Rule for the Bio-Medical and Social Science Research: Problems with the IRB
Roli Varma University of New Mexico
1.10 Exploring Expertise
San Marino Room
· Uncertainty in Expert Policy Advice: Variation in Heuristics for Dealing with Uncertainty in Dutch Expert Institutes.
Annick de Vries University of Twente
· Expertise on the Periphery: Ugandan Researchers Engage the Science and
Politics of HIV Drug Resistance
Johanna Crane...... UC San Francisco, Berkeley
· Argumentation Theory and the Critical Assessment of Expert Advice: Extending
Hilgartner
William Rehg Saint Louis University
· The Right to Identity and the Compulsory Extraction of Blood in Post-Dictatorship
Argentina
Ari Gandsman McGill University
1.11 Practicing STS
Monterey Room
· Evaluating ZorgDomein—How We Got Entangled in Interorganizational Health Care Politics and Survived as STS Researchers
Roland Bal and Femke Mastboom.........
Erasmus University Medical Centre
· Can STS-Concepts Help Us Understand Ethnicity?
Agnes Meershoek and Anja Krumeich..
Maastricht University
· Science Studies Elsewhere - Controversial, Invisible, and Anomalous?
Alexandra Hofmanner.........
University of Cape Town
1.12 Managing Participation
Organizer/Chair: Berit Moltu
Pasadena Room II
· Reshaping Practice, Redistributing Labor: Managing the Human and Nonhuman Actors in Customer Relations
Jeanette Blomberg and Melissa Cefkin..................... IBM
· Life Coaching: From Couch to Coach
Esra Ozkan.............................
... Massachusetts Institute of Technology
· Generification Work in the Production of Organizational Software Packages
Neil Pollock and Christine Grimm.
University of Edinburgh
· Business Process Reengineering (BPR) as Creator of New Spaces of Participation
Berit Moltu and Christian Clausen
........... SINTEF Technologies
SESSION 2 10:30-12:00
2.1 Foresight Industry and the ‘Secrets’
Thereof: STS Perspectives
Organizers: Arthur Mason and
Marjolein van Asselt
Discussant: Steve Woolgar
Del Mar Room
· Hedging Against Future Risks: Social Planning and Local Adaptation to Climate
Change in Sweden
Ylva Uggla Örebro University
· Debunking Practical Interdisciplinarity: An
Ethnographic study of Dutch Foresight
Practice
Susan van‘t Klooster and Marjolein
van Asselt........... Maastricht University
· Entropic Distance and the Poetics of Natural Gas Forecasting
Arthur Mason................
University of California, Berkeley
· Futurist Think Tanks: Taming the Unruly (and Sometimes Secret) Nature of
Technological Visions
Lonny Brooks California State University
2.2 Cybernetics and Its Countercultures
Organizer: Fred Turner
Discussant: Geoffrey C. Bowker
San Jose Room
· Cybernetics and Madness: From Electroshock to the Psychedelic 60s
Andrew Pickering............
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
· Cybernetic Art Worlds of the 1960s
Fred Turner... Stanford University
· Demonically Wild Contingencies: Disciplining Interactivity in Ethnomethodology and Cybernetics
Lucy Suchman............. Lancaster University
2.3 The Socio-Technical Organization of
Everyday Life: Normality, Materiality
and Practice
Organizers: Anne Sofie Laegran and
Elizabeth Shove
Sacramento Room
· Living up to Machines: Expectations and Demands of Organizational Competence among Domestic Appliances and Their Users
Martin Hand....... Queens University
Elizabeth Shove University of Lancaster
· The Inevitability of “Everyday Life,” or Why Can’t Americans Stop Sleeping?
Matthew Wolf-Meyer.......
University of Minnesota
· Blue, Yellow, Black and Tan: Daily Technologies, Categories and Development
Wenda Bauchspies Penn State University
2.4 Hurricane Katrina: Chaos at the
Intersection of Science, Technology,
Society and Nature
Organizer: Benjamin Sims
Participants: Wiebe Bijker, Wes Shrum,
Susan Leigh Star, Naomi Oreskes,
Stephen Hilgartner and Jamey Wetmore
Santa Barbara Room
2.5 How Can Scientists and STS Scholars
Collaborate?: The Case of the KEK
Organizers: Kenji Ito and
Sharon Traweek
San Diego Room
· Scientists' Reasons for Collaborating with Historians
Yoshinobu Takaiwa..............
......... High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
· Behind the Collaboration Between Scientists and S&TS Scholars: The KEK ...... Archives Project
from the Viewpoint of a Historian of Science
Kenji Ito....... University of Tokyo
· Making Lab Histories: An Anomalous Ethnography of an Unruly Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Sharon Traweek
2.6 An STS-Approach to Age and Ageing
Organizers: Birgit Jaeger and Andrew Feenberg
Discussant: Andrew Feenberg
Pasadena Room
· Ageing and Modernization - Do Structural Changes Correspond with Old Peoples´ Own Experiences?
Britt Östlund... Lund University
· An STS Study of Older Chinese’s and Americans’ Use of the Internet
Bo Xie........... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· Non-user and Ex-users Among Old People
Brigit Jaeger... Roskilde University
· A Phenomenology of Medicalized Life: Old Age, Life Extension, and the Self
Janet K. Shim, Ann J. Russ and
Sharon R. Kaufman.............
University of California, San Francisco
2.7 Science, Technology and the
Corporation: Corporate Governance
and Accountability
Organizer: Shobita Parthasarathy,
Marybeth Long Martello and Alastair Iles
Discusssant: Marybeth Long Martello
Pacific Ballroom A
· (Green) Washing the Chemical Industries: Regulation, Responsibility, and the
Emergence of the Green
Jody A. Roberts.. Virginia Tech
· Transnational Companies, Smallholder Farmers and the Fate of Agricultural Biotechnology
Dominic Glover.................
Institute of Development Studies
· Charging Corporations With Responsibility: The Health Impacts of Power Companies
Alastair Iles UC Berkeley
· Incorporating Science, Profit, and Human
Values? Dot-org as New Genomic Buffer
Zone
David Winickoff...........
University of California, Berkeley
2.8 Self-Reflective Technical Practice: Art
and Design as Critical Technical
Practices (affiliated with the
International Network for Engineering
Studies)
Organizers: Carl diSalvo and Phoebe
Sengers
Discussant: Eric Paulos
Pacific Ballroom B
· Notes from the Trenches
Marc Boehlen... Buffalo
· Research of the Undisciplined: Tactical Technology Interventions
Beatriz da Costa....... Irvine
· Attempts to Domesticate the Unruly: Reflections on the Research and Design
of Service Robots
Carl diSalvo. Carnegie Mellon University
2.9 Four Psychic Objects: Psyche, Pain,
and the Prepuceless Penis
Organizer: Henry Krips
Pacific Ballroom C
· Freud’s Drive and its Vicissitudes
Henry Krips.. University of Pittsburgh
· The Mind in the Shadow of the Brain: Freud’s Illustrations of the Psyche
Michelle Gibbons....... University of Pittsburgh
· I Feel Your Pain: Reflections on the Grammar and Rhetoric of Pain
John Lyne.. University of Pittsburgh
· Not-so-Gray Anatomy: The Circumcised Penis in Contemporary Anatomy Textbooks
Michele Kennerly....... University of Pittsburgh
2.10 Public Understanding of Science
San Marino Room
· Complementary Venues of Investigation: Focus Group Interviews and Surveys on
Public Understanding of Science
Inge Ramberg.............
Norwegian Institute for Studies in Research
· Validation Boundaries: Knowledge Criteria Explaining Conflict between Experts and Public
Yuko Fujigaki....... University of Tokyo
· Emerging Technologies, Public Understanding of Science and Development
Pranav N. Desai...................
Jawaharlal Nehru University
2.11 Technologies of Citizenship:
Surveillance and the Regulation of
Difference
Organizers: Virginia Eubanks and
Torin Monahan
Monterey Room
· Techno-logics of Residential Surveillance
Torin Monahan Arizona State University
· Our Knowledge, Our Power: Popular Technology
Virginia Eubanks... SUNY, Albany
· (ICT) Surveillance and Identity Management of Lesbians in the Workplace
Jennifer Murray .. Arizona State University
· The Better to See You With: An Exploration of Means for Measuring Video Surveillance Intensity
Ann Rudinow Saetnan, Carsten Wiecek
and Johanne Yttri Dahl...... NTNU
Heidi Mork Lomell University of Oslo
2.12 Representing and Engaging
with Unruly Processes
Organizer: Peter Taylor
Pasadena II Room
· Semiotics, Practice, and Representation: A Study in the Dynamic Representation
of an Ecology of Knowledge
Atsushi Akera..................
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· Mapping the Discursive Production of Indigenous Knowledge in the Unruly Space of the Interne
Adam Henne University of Georgia
· Workshops for Participatory Restructuring of Knowledge-Making & Social Change
Peter Taylor.................
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Lunch 12:-1:30
Meetings
Monterey Room
Video Ethnography I
Organizers: Wes Shrum, Marianne de Laet and
Rick Duque
Pasadena II
Representing and Engaging with Unruly Process II: Workshop Using the Dialogue Process
Organizer: Peter Taylor
San Jose Room
California Students STS brown bag lunch meeting
SESSION 3 1:30-3:00
3.1 Environmental Constituencies
Del Mar Room
· Air Quality and Development in the Big Bend: The Politics of Knowledge
Francisco Donez..................
University of California, Berkeley
· Reflexive Science Communication: Local Air Quality Management Consultation
in the UK
Paul Dorfman, Clare Beattie and Frank
Burnet University of the West of England
David Gibbs University of Hull
James Longhurst, Emma Weitkamp and
Nurul Leksmono............ .......................
University of the West of England
· Social Learning in the Hydrogen Economy: Translating Visions to Practice
Asbjørn Kårstein..............
Norwegian University of Science and Tech
3.2 Healthcare ICT
San Jose Room
· Situated Between Doctors and Statisticians: Applying STS-Perspectives in the Field of Health Care ICT
Line Melby
Norwegian University of Science and Tech
· Biopsychiatry and the Informatics of Diagnosis
Jackie Orr.............. Syracuse University
· Distributed Diagnosis and Trust. The Case of Telemonitoring Technologies for Heart Patients
Nelly Oudshoorn University of Twente
· Young Women with Breast Cancer and the Internet
Bev Holmes and Guenther Krueger.............................
....... Simon Fraser University
3.3 Roundtable: Reconsidering “Do
Artifacts Have Politics?”
Organizers: Rayvon Fouche and
Michael Lynch
Participants: Langdon Winner;
Darin Barney; Michael Bennett;
Wiebe Bijker; Tarleton Gillespie;
Rebecca Herzig; Charis Thompson;
Steve Woolgar
Sacramento Room
3.4 Communities and Cultural
Differentiation: Issues of Ontologies,
Metadata, and Knowledge
Representation
Organizers: Francis Harvey and
Ramesh Srinivasan
Discussant: Geoff Bowker
Santa Barbara Room
· Putting the Body on the Bones?
Roxanne Ornelas....... University of Minnesota
· Technologies of Spatial and Cultural Memory
Ramesh Srinivasan..........
University of California, Los Angeles
· Rethinking Totem and Cadaster
David C. Nevins Nevins Associates
· Messy Assemblages, Emergent Protocols, and Emergent Knowledges: Complex
Adaptive Systems
David Turnbull.. Deakin University
3.5 Provincializing Science Studies
Organizer: Timothy Choy
Discussant: Kim Fortun
San Diego
· Re-Locating Chinese Medicine
Mei Zhan....... University of California, Irvine
· Ecological Life and the Endangerment of Hong Kong
Timothy Choy.. Ohio State University
· Making (Tanzanian) Traditional Medicine
Stacey Langwick....... University of Florida
· The Herbal Medicine Cabinet: Still Controversial Artifact?
EunJeong Ma........... Cornell University
3.6 Bodies, Knowledge and Control
Pasadena Room
· Taking the Body for a Spin: Diabetes, the DMV, and the Rhetoric of Bodily Control
David S. Martins
California State University, Chico
· Sovereignty, Risk and Public Health: The Paradox of Quarantine in the 21st Century
Kate O'Neill
University of California, Berkeley
· The Performativity of Epilepsy and Neuroscience
Deirdre Leahy
· The Viral Gene
Theresa MacPhail....... University of Hong Kong
3.7 Science, Technology and the
Corporation: Marketing Sociotechnical
Visions
Organizer: Shobita Parthasarathy,
Marybeth Long Martello and Alastair Iles
Discussant: Shobita Parthasarathy
Pacific Ballroom A
· Educating Societies about Science and Technology: The Role of the Multinational Corporation. A Case of Nokia and MT
Caroline Wamala............ Linkoping University
· The Hopeful Industry? Exploring Vision Production Associated with Stem Cell Research
Kristin Lofthus Hope and Silje Sivertsen............
. Rokkansenteret, UiB
· Marketing Mobile Futures: The Assembly of RFID Constituencies
Elena Simakova and Daniel Neyland..
University of Oxford
· Managing Innovation: The Process of Realizing and Commercializing Hybrid
Technologies and Products
Thomas Hoholm...............
Norwegian School of Management
3.8 Self-Reflective Technical Practice:
Design Practices in Human-Computer
Interaction (Affiliated with the
International Network for Engineering
Studies)
Organizers: Carl diSalvo and Phoebe
Sengers
Discussant: Paul Dourish
Pacific Ballroom B
· De-stabilizing and Extending Museum Objects
Robin Boast Cambridge
· Sociomics! Following proteomics with the IssueCrawler
Ruth McNally and Peter Glasner.................. ESRC
· Borders and Appropriations: Relations Between HCI and STS
Darren Reed University of York
3.9 Drugs
Discussant/Chair: Joe Dumit
Pacific Ballroom C
· Mapping Sex and Drugs in the Bodies of Queer Homeless Youth: The Practices
and Politics of Statistics
Ben Peacock..............
University of California, San Francisco
· Scripting the Body: Pharmaceuticals and the (re)Making of Menstruation
Laura Mamo University of Maryland
Jennifer Ruth Fosket McGill University
· Thick Prescriptions: Toward an Interpretation of Pharmaceutical Industry Practices
Michael J. Oldani Princeton University
· Cognition Emerging: Creating a New Psychopharmacologic Object
Elizabeth Bromley..............
University of California, Los Angeles
3.10 Public Participation
San Marino Room
· Scientific Authority and Social Justice Activism in a National Security State
Gwen D'Arcangelis......
University of California, Los Angeles
· Motivating Action on Climate Change: Decoupling Participation and Public
Understanding of Science
Miriam Padolsky.............
University of California, San Diego
· In the Name of Society: Narratives on Power Structures, Decision-Making and
Public Participation in the Field of
Biomedical Technologies
Ulrike Felt and Maximilian Fochler................
University of Vienna
· Internet-based Mass Participation Campaigns and the Changing Landscape of Public Participation in Environmental Regulatory Rulemaking
Stephen Zavestoski.........
University of San Francisco
David Schlosberg.........
.. Northern Arizona University
Stuart Shulman University of Pittsburgh
· Problem of Deliberative Decision Making: A Case of Antenatal Screening for Down's Syndrome in the UK
Maiko Watanabe University of Warwick
3.11 Social Security
Organizer: Natalie Jeremijenko
Monterey Room
· Antiterrorism: Demilitarizing Technologies and Arming the Citizenry
Natalie Jeremijenko........
University of California, San Diego
· Bio-Arbitrage and Other forms of 21st Century Bio-Profiteering
MK Dorsey................. Dartmouth
· Promoting Civilian Oversight of Police Surveillance in an Immigrant Neighborhood
Tad Hirsch MIT Media Lab
· Surviving Civil Defense: Philip Dick and the Nuclear Frontier
Patrick B. Sharp
California State University, Los Angeles
· Simulating Armageddon
Hugh Gusterson..........
... Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3.12 Mechanics of Representation
Pasadena II Room
· Working Models and Simulations in the Brain Sciences
Peter Asaro The Gallery of Research
· Applied Philosophy of Imaging: Using Ihde’s Philosophy for Neurobiological Research
Robert Rosenberger........ Stony Brook University
· In Space, NASA Can Hear You Scream: Examining the Meaning Behind Acoustic
Representations of Outer Space
Emma Johnson and Robert Lecusay.
University of California, San Diego
· Pursuing Images and Imaginings in Digital Radiography: Renewing Acquaintanceships with ‘The Physics’
Linda Hitchin University of Lincoln
Susan Green........ Dorset County Hospital
· Representations of the User in Computer Graphics Modeling
Yanni Loukissas...........
... Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PRESIDENTIAL PANEL 3:30-5:30
International Ballroom
Thirty Five Years of Science Studies: Retrospective and Prospective
Chair: President Elect Leigh Star
Panelists: Sharon Traweek, "Laboratories as Unruly Nodes: Anomalous Modes of Interpretation and Inquiry"
Karin Knorr, "Going West Again - and then What? Some Thoughts on the Future of STS"
Mike Lynch, "What Was, Is and Will Be the Point of Laboratory Studies?"
Bruno Latour, "A Case of Simultaneous Discovery in the Social Sciences: the Beginning of Laboratory Studies in 1975... Plus a Wild Guess of What should be Studied Thirty Years from Now"
Reception 5:30-6:30 (Cash Bar)
California Ballroom
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2005
Science Technology and Human Values Editorial Meeting
7:15 – 8:30
International Ballroom
SESSION 4 8:30-10:00
4.1 Environmental Planning and Control
Del Mar Room
· The Dutch Environmental Planning Agency and Boundary Work
Udo Pesch..................
.. Institute for Environmental Studies
· Making Biocontrol Work: Managing Ecological Relationships and Variability in
Agricultural Biocontrol
Keith Douglass Warner and
Waide Hicks Santa Clara University
· Technology Rules: Understanding and Supporting Emerging Practice in Ecology
Ann Zimmerman....... University of Michigan
Bonnie Nardi and Susan Sim.......................
University of California, Irvine
· Socialism in Practice: Drainage and Data in Lithuanian Farms in the 1960s
Diana Mincyte
University of Illinois, Urbana
4.2 New Media Studies Meets STS:
Communications and Social Works
Organizer: Mizuko Ito
Discussant: Doug Thomas
San Jose Room
· Bridging S&TS and Communication Studies: Scholarship on Media and Information
Technologies
Pablo J. Boczkowski........
...... Northwestern University
Leah Lievrouw............
University of California, Los Angeles
· Performative Whack-a-Mole (or What Happened When the Freaks, Geeks and Queers Colonized Friendster)
danah boyd....................
University of California, Berkeley
· Here, There and Everywhere: Ghanaians and ICTs
ken Anderson and Jenna Burrell......
......... Intel Research
4.3 Tales
Sacramento Room
· Facts, Unruly Metaphors, and Values: Competition and Progress in Evolution
Brendon M. H. Larson.....
University of California, Davis
· Arguments: Rhetorics of Hope, Fear & Risk in Parliamentary Debate over the Handicap Ground for Abortion
Ruth McNally.... ESRC
· Stories about Frequent Attenders
Paula Hodgson........... University Liverpool
P. Brown...... Westmorland General Practice
C. Dowrick University Liverpool
P. Smith Park Road Group Practice
· The Epistemic Value of Cautionary Tales
Bill Shields Virginia Tech
4.4 Interoperability of eHealth Systems:
Discovering or Domesticating the
'Odd' Artefact?
Organizers: Ellen Balka and Ina Wagner
Santa Barbara Room
· Configurability, Place Making and the Materiality of Documentation Systems: the Case of Two Oncology
Ina Wagner and Marianne Tolar..
. Vienna University of Technology
· Interoperability of eHealth Systems: Discovering or Domesticating the 'Odd' Artefact?
Ellen Balka....... Simon Fraser University
· The Hidden Lives of the Electronic Medical Records
Nina Boulus...... Simon Fraser University
4.5 Current Issues in Engineering
Studies I: Engineering Work (Affiliated
with the International Network for
Engineering Studies)
Organizer: Gary Downey
San Diego Room
· A Comparative Study of Engineering Work Practices
Diane Bailey.... Stanford University
Hallie Kintner... General Motors Corporation
· Reliability and Design Theory in Software Engineering
Francis A. Bausch... Virginia Tech
· Staging Methods?
Eva Amdahl.... KULT, NTNU
Kristin Lofthus Hope....... UiB/NTNU
· Claiming Creative Autonomy: Art, Science and Function in Industrial Design
and Engineering.
Peter Whalley... Loyola University Chicago
4.6 The Politics and Technology of
Ballistic Missile Defense: the
Struggle to Achieve Closure
Organizer: Graham Spinardi
Pasadena Room
· Testing and the Construction of Technical Knowledge in Ballistic Missile Defense
Technology
Graham Spinardi....... University of Edinburgh
· Calculated Risks? Computer Experts and the Problem of Missile Defense,
1957-2005
Rebecca Slayton. Stanford University
· Understanding Star Wars: The Logic of MAD and the Feasibility of Directed
Energy Weapon Technology
Zachary Zwald..................
University of California, Berkeley
· Representing Weapons
Greg Wilson, Andrew Koehler and
Benjamin Sims.....................
.......... Los Alamos National Laboratory
4.7 Economic Life, Accounting, and the
Anthropology of Calculation
Organizers: Donald MacKenzie and
Alex Preda
Pacific Ballroom A
· The Qualculation of Gifts
Michel Callon Ecole des Mines de Paris
· The Finitist Accountant: Classifications, Rules and the Construction of Profits
Donald MacKenzie University of Edinburgh
· From Pipes to Scopes: The Architecture of Global Foreign Exchange Markets
Karin Knorr Cetina University of Chicago
· A Tool Story: Building a Sociotechnical Calculator
Simon Kiilerich Madsen
University of Aarhus
4.8 Knowledge Environments I
Pacific Ballroom B
· Distributed Expertise and Elitism in a Software Firm
Travis L. Kriplean......................
.... University of Wisconsin-Madison
· Does Mickey Mouse Matter? International Training and Professional Networks of Philippine Scientists
Marcus Antonius Ynalvez and Wesley
Shrum... Louisiana State University
· Creative Knowledge Environments. Studies of Work Teams in Biotechnology
Sven Hemlin. Göteborg University
4.9 Race
Pacific Ballroom C
· Reifying Race and ‘Wrongful Life’: The Genetic Politics of Tay-Sachs Disease
Shelley Z. Reuter Concordia University
· Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
Jonathan M. Metzl....... University of Michigan
· Race Difference in Behavior Genetics: Effects and Ironies of an Unruly Object
Aaron Panofsky..... New York University
· Sexualized and Fetishized Race: Virtual Representation of Body
Yuya Kiuchi
University of Massachusettes, Boston
4.10 Expertise
San Marino Room
· Expertise and Legitimacy: the EU Model
Stephen Turner University of South Florida
· Sociotechnical Objects in Tobacco Litigation: Deposing Experts Regarding the "Safe" Cigarette
David S. Caudill
Washington and Lee University
· Legitimacy and Public Accountability of Hyper Expertise
David Mercer University of Wollongong
· Bayesian Approach to Measure Subjectivity Hidden in Rxpert Judgment – Case Study on IPCC GHGs Inventory Guidelines
Shintaro Munakata and Yuko Fujigaki.....
University of Tokyo
4.11 Medical and Genetic Science Studies as
Cultural Resistance
Organizers: Annette Burfoot and Jennifer
Poudrier
Monterey Room
· How Alternative is Alternative and Complementary Medicine (CAM)? A Model
for Theorizing CAM
Lesley Biggs University of Saskatchewan
· It’s 2005… Do You Know Where Your Cells Are?
Aryn Martin..... Cornell University
· Medical and Genetic Science Studies as Cultural Resistance
Jennifer Poudrier University of Saskatchewan
Annette Burfoot...............
........ Queen's University at Kingston
· The Paradox of Delegation or How Standards Contribute to Non-Compliance
with Asthma Treatments
Stefan Timmermans.......
University of California, Los Angeles
4.12 Questions about Technology
Development
Pasadena II Room
· The Case for Schumpeterian Technological Progress
Arthur M. Diamond, Jr........
University of Nebraska, Omaha
· From Technological Monoculture to Technological Diversity
Steve Breyman
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· Reshaping Momentum: Using Science and Technology (STS) to Conceptualize the Electric Utility Industry
Benjamin Sovacool and Richard F.
Hirsh................ Virginia Polytechnic Institute
· Technology and Transparency as Realist Narrative
Chad V. Harris
University of California, San Diego
SESSION 5 10:30-12:00
5.1 Environmental Informatics:
Developments, Expectations,
Controversy
Organizers: Kim Fortun and Lane
DeNicola
Del Mar Room
· Seeing and Synthesizing Systems: The Discovery of Endocrine Disruption
Sara Ann Wylie
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
· The Production of Environment: Spatial Representation, Information Technology,
and Earth Remote Sensing
Lane DeNicola.............
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· “Selling” Climate Change to Americans
Candis Callison...............
... Massachusetts Institute of Technology
· Caring for the Data, Informating Environmental Health
Kim Fortun Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
5.2 New Media Studies Meets STS:
Portable Technologies
Organizer: danah boyd
Discussant: Heinrich Schwarz
San Jose Room
· Proliferation and Circulation of Body Data: Picture-Messaging in Medical Practice and Personal Health
Heidi Cooley
University of Southern California
· "Private Imaging, Public Exhibition": The Use of Mobile(Phone) Video in Korean Television
HyeRyoung Ok.
University of Southern California
· Hybrid Reality Games: Transforming Gaming, Sociability and Urban Spaces via
Mobile Technologies
Adriana de Souza e Silva......
... North Carolina State University
· The Cellphone and the Swarm
Tad Hirsch MIT Media Lab
John Henry Institute for Applied
5.3 Biosecurity: Surveillance, Risk, and
the 'War on Terror'
Organizer: Nicholas B. King
Sacramento Room
· The Soft Cage of Biosecurity? Biological Weapons and the Surveillance
Convergence, 1926-2005
Nicholas B. King................
......... Case Western Reserve University
· Techniques of Preparedness
Andrew Lakoff..................
University of California, San Diego
Stephen Collier........... New School University
· State(s) of Emergency: Infected Bodies/Infected Nation
Chris Kortright.............
University of California, Davis
5.4 Exploring the Unruliness of Health
Care Indicators
Organizers: Casper Bruun Jensen and
Ellen Balka
Santa Barbara Room
· Measurement Madness? Building National Health Indicators in Canada
Ellen Balka....... Simon Fraser University
· The Messy World of Occupational Health and Safety Indicators: Making Women’s
Work Visible
Gael Le Jeune...................
Université du Québec à Montréal
· Alt.metadata.Health: The Argument for Databases Ethnographies
Nadine Schuurman Simon Fraser University
· Is Health Policy Science? Dealing with Genetics in Social Health Insurance
Erik Aarden Maastricht University
5.5 Current Issues in Engineering Studies
II: Engineering Epistemology and
Ethics (Affiliated with the International
Network for Engineering Studies)
Organizer: Gary Downey
San Diego Room
· Anticipating The Engineer of 2020: The Existential Criticism of Engineering
Carl Mitcham.............
· Troubling Engineers: Anti-Oppressive Education and the Engineer of 2020
Jane Lehr.... King's College London
Sharon Ruff Virginia Tech
· What Does Engineering Ethics Means at NSF?: Report of the “Ethics Education in
Science and Engineering” Competition
Rachelle Hollander............
... National Science Foundation
5.6 Interrogating Nanotechnologies I:
Nano-hopes, Nano-hypes, Nano-fears
Organizers: Clark A. Miller and
Cyrus C. M. Mody
Pasadena Room
· Visions and Controversies in Nanotechnology: The Acceptance Politics of a Future Key Technology
Daniel Barben................
University of Wisconsin-Madison
· Problematic Symbols in Nanomedicine
Chris Toumey University of South Carolina
· Gray Goo Run Amok: the History of Fears of Nanotechnology in the U.S.
Kellen Backe..................
University of Wisconsin-Madison
5.7 Economic Life, Accounting, and the
Anthropology of Calculation
Organizers: Donald MacKenzie and
Alex Preda
Pacific Ballroom A
· Socio-Technical Agency and Calculation in Financial Markets
Alex Preda.............................
· The Architecture of Calculation
Caitlin Zaloom........................... NYU
· When Social Skills are not Enough to Transform Insitutionalized Markets
Peter Karnøe and Susse Georg.......
... Copenhagen Business School
· Calculating Consumer Creditworthiness, Calculating the Price of Credit
Martha Poon..
... University of California, San Diego
5.8 Knowledge Environments II
Pacific Ballroom B
· Galileo’s Stream: A Framework for Technical Knowledge Production
Jessica Glicken Turnley.
..... Galisteo Consulting Group
Jeffery Tsao, Kevin Boyack, Michael
Coltrin and Wilhelm Gauster
...... Sandia National Laboratories
· Sans-culotte or Regular Force? : Interdiscipinarity, Organization and the Shifting Identity of Emergency Medicine
Masato Fukushima....... University of Tokyo
· The National Innovation Systems Conceptual Approach as a Social Technology and Boundary Object
Naubahar Sharif....... Cornell University
· The Sociology of Parts: Complexity in Socio-Technical Systems
Benjamin Sims, Andrew Koehler and
Greg Wilson................
........... Los Alamos National Laboratory
5.9 Unruly Organs and Desires:
Scientizing Sexual Knowledge,
Measuring Sexual Response, and
Producing Normative Sexual Subjects
Organizers: Katrina Karkazis and
Steven Epstein
Pacific Ballroom C
· Practicing Phallometry, Making Sexualities: The Prolific Career of the Penile
Plethysmograph
Tom Waidzunas and Steven Epstein..
University of California, San Diego
· Technologies of Desire and Theories of Development: Hierarchies of Offenders in Forensic Sexology
Rebecca Young. Columbia University
· A Good Baby is a Straight Baby: The Production of Normative Sexuality in Intersexuality
Katrina A. Karkazis Stanford University
· The Difference That Difference Makes
Jennifer Fishman
...... Case Western Reserve University
5.10 The Limits to Participation
Organizers: Dave Huitema and
Udo Pesch
San Marino Room
· The Limits to Participation
Dave Huitema, Marleen van de Kerkhof
and Udo Pesch..................
........ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
· The Ideal of Participation in STS
Udo Pesch and Dave Huitemaa............
.......... Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
· Science, Technology, and Radically Democratic Representation
Mark Brown
California State University, Sacramento
· The Limitation of Consensus Conferences: Cases from Japan
Mariko Nishizawa University of Stuttgart
· The Fairy Tale of Copenhagen and the Lullaby of London: Deliberative Governance and the Social Construction of Consensus
Maja Horst................... Copenhagen Business School
Alan Irwin.. University of Liverpool
5.11 Representing Bodies
Monterey Room
· Representing Pain: FMRI and Pain Visualization Techniques
Jennifer L. Croissant University of Arizona
· Enacting Images in the Physiology Laboratory: Representations of the Transformation of (Human) Embryo
Steven Wainwright......... University of London
· Composed Techno-scapes: Representations of Racialized and Gendered Bodies in Public Health Discourse
Clare C. Jen
University of Maryland, College Park
5.12 Objects I
Pasadena II Room
· “The Intimacy Wasn’t There at All”: Relating to World War II Warplanes
Kent Wayland University of Virginia
· Unruly Artifacts and Controversial Policy: Gun Violence and Gun Control in
America 1934-2005
Dave Conz Arizona State University
· The Author as an Elusive Subject: The Interplay of Technology, Communication and Work in the Adoption of Beta
Pablo Boczkowski Northwestern University
· Building Amish Community: Values, Boundaries, and Technological Choice
Jameson M. Wetmore.......
Arizona State University
Lunch 12:00-1:30
Meetings
Monterey Room
Video Ethnography II
Organizers: Wes Shrum, Marianne de Laet
and Rick Duque
San Diego Room
CASTAC Meeting
(AAA Committee for the Anthropology of
Science, Technology and Computing)
Del Mar Room
4S Business Meeting
SESSION 6 1:30-3:00
6.1 Science, Technology, and the
Environment: Equity, Justice, and
Funding Issues
Organizer: David Hess
Del Mar Room
· Object Conflicts and Clean Fuels: Diesel-based Health Risks, Colliding Expertise, and Bus Design
David Hess........... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· Health and Environmental Funding for Nanotechnology
Emily Valerio.................
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· Equity, Agricultural Biotechnology, and Public Scientists in South India
Electra Weeks.................
.......... New School for Social Research
· From the Age of Ecology to Green Business: The Cultural Appropriation of the
Environmental Movement
Andrew Jamison Aalborg University
6.2 New Media Studies Meets STS: Media
and Place
Organizer: ken anderson
Discussant: Mizuko Ito
San Jose Room
· Designing Smart Spaces Through Mobile and Locational Technologies
Heinrich Schwarz..............
University of Colorado at Boulder
· Rewriting the History of Geographic Information Systems: From Map Layer to
Object Management
Michael Curry...................
University of California, Los Angeles
· Re-Scripting Space and Re-Imagining Information in Ubiquitous Computing
Paul Dourish....... University of California, Irvine
6.3 Rethinking Nonhuman Agency
Through the Animal and the Machine
Organizers: Eduardo Kohn and
Natasha Schull
Discussant: Bruno Latour
Sacramento Room
· Against Networks: an Ethology of Non-Human Humans
Christopher M. Kelty............. Rice University
· Seized by Formulas
Vincent Antonin Lepinay
Columbia University
· Agency by Design: The Play of Autonomy and Compulsion in Las Vegas Video
Gambling
Natasha Schull.. Columbia University
· We May Have Never Been Human But Non-humans Have Always Been Persons
Eduardo Kohn. University of Michigan
6.4 Interoperability: Analysis - Beyond
Standards I
Organizers: David Ribes and
Geoff Bowker
Discussant: Geoff Bowker
Santa Barbara Room
· On Non-standard Standards: Developing Metadata for an Educational Digital Library
Michael Khoo...................
.... National Center for Atmospheric Research
· Standardization in Action: From the Adoption of the Ecological Metadata Language to its Enactment
Florence Millerand and Karen S. Baker...
University of California San Diego
· Governing Food, Risk, and Trade: Codex Alimentarius and International Standards
Saul Halfon Virginia Tech
· Experimenting with the Archive: Implications of the ‘Philosophies of Becoming’ for Databases and Collections
Claire Waterton............
Lecturer in Environment and Social Policy
6.5 Unearthing Histories and
Representations of Technologies and
Technologists in Brazil and Colombia
(Affiliated with the International
Network for Engineering Studies)
Organizers: Andres Valderrama and
Juan Lucena
Discussant: Gary Downey
San Diego Room
· Persistence and Resistance: Engineering as a Feminine Profession in Brazil
Maria Rosa Lombardi..
Fundação Carlos Chagas
· Diesel vs. Gas: Lay and Expert Representations of Fuel, Environment and Performance
Andres Valderrama and Isaac Beltran......
... Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
· Re-engineering Technocracy: Hybridizing Identities of Engineers as Technology Policy-makers in Colombia
Richard Arias
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· From "Jap" to Nikkeijin to Brazilian: Identity Shaping and the Construction of
Nations among Brazilian Engineers
Juan Lucena. Colorado School of Mines
6.6 Interrogating Nanotechnologies II:
The Ordering of Nanoscience:
Laboratory, Discipline, University
Organizers: Clark A. Miller
and Cyrus C. M. Mody
Pasadena Room
· The Controversial Status of Realism About Microscopy
Otávio Bueno University of South Carolina
· Nanotechnology and the Modern University
Cyrus Mody....... Chemical Heritage Foundation
· The Role of Images in the Development of NanoScience/Technology
Chris Robinson ...........
University of South Carolina
6.7 Markets
Pacific Ballroom A
· Framing Innovations and Markets: Two Examples from the Case of Online
Music Distribution in France
Jean-Samuel Beuscart
.... Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
· Fixing Reality? Social Security Reform and the De-inscription of the Economy in Mexico
Tara Schwegler University of Chicago
· Modeling a Market. On the Construction of a Healthcare Model for the Netherlands
Stans van Egmond Erasmus University
· Economic Statistics as a Technology of Distance – on the Establishment of
Israel's Economy During the '50s
Anat Leibler
University of California, San Diego
· Reinsurance Experiments with Genetics: Towards a Socially Robust Insurance Market?
Ine Van Hoyweghen.......
University of Maastricht
6.8 Postphenomenology and Unruly
Materiality
Organizers: Don Ihde and
Cathrine Hasse
Pacific Ballroom B
· Hearing the Unhearable: Auditory Technologies
Don Ihde. Stony Brook University
· Cultural Perception of Unruly Particles - Beyond Representation and Subjectivity
Cathrine Hasse The Danish University of Education
· The Ultrasound Scanner, the Doctor, her Patients and the Embryos- When New Stories of Creation are Staged, on the Ultrasound Scanner at the Fertility Clinic
Stine Adrian University of Linköping
· Processes of Ordering and the Making of Differences - Gender and Scientific Knowledge Production
Lis Højgaard University of Copenhagen
6.9 Race, Genetics and Diseases: Questions
of Evidence, Questions of Consequence
Organizer: Joan H. Fujimura
Pacific Ballroom C
· The ’Care of the Data’ ‘In the Meantime’: Populations, Clusters, Addictions
Mike Fortun
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· Languages of Race and Regulation: Commerce and Accountability in
Race-Specific Drug Development
Jonathan Kahn Hamline University
· Racial Niche Marketing and the Particularities of Racialization in Biomedicine: A Comparison of AIDSVAX and BiDil
Kevin Moseby and Steven Epstein..
....... University of California, San Diego
· Genes, Disease and Mexicana/o Ethnicity: The Making of Research and National Subjectivities
Michael Montoya............
University of California, Irvine
6.10 Pathways of Scientific Dissent
Organizers: J. Delborne, D. Durant and
J. Howard
San Marino Room
· Resisting Deep Rock Dumping
Darrin Durant......... York University
· Knowledge Domains, Expertise, and Authority: The role of Anti-vaccinationist
Scientists and Lay Witnesses
Jennifer Keelan.................
.... Science and Technology Studies
· Pathways of Scientific Dissent in Agricultural Biotechnology
Jason Delborne.............
University of California, Berkeley
· Scientific Dissent in Ecological Modernization: Industrial Ecology, Green Chemistry, and the Chlorine Controversy
Jeff Howard...............
University of Texas at Arlington
6.11 Reconstructing Clinical Practice:
Standardization and Modern Medicine
Organizers: Ruth McDonald and
Ann Lennarson Greer
Monterey Room
· Designing Mobile and Satellite Dialysis Units: Closer to Patients and… Away from
Nephrologists?
Pascale Lehoux and Geneviève Daudelin.............
University of Montreal
· Rules, Safety and the Narrativization of Identity: a Hospital Operating Theatre Case Study
Ruth McDonald....... University of Manchester
Justin Waring University of Nottingham
· National Service Frameworks and UK General Practitioners: Street-Level Bureaucrats at Work?
Kath Checkland Univsersity of Manchester
· Modernizing Medical Work--Which is What?
Ann Lennarson Greer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
6.12 Objects II
Pasadena II Room
· Science as Arbiter: IUD Mechanism of Action and Antiabortion Politics
Chikako Takeshita............
University of California, Riverside
· Exploring Technologies of Intimacy: Minimal Intimate Objects
Joseph Kaye........ Cornell University
· The Cultural Construction of 3G
Catharina Landstrom.......... Goldsmiths College
SESSION 7 3:00-5:30
7.1 Science, Technology, and the
Environment: Equity, Justice, and
Funding Issues
Organizer: David Hess
Del Mar Room
· Science Under Pressure
Barbara Allen....... Virginia Tech
· The Spatial Politics of Breast Cancer: Local, Global, and Social Ecologies of Risk
Barbara L. Ley......................
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
· Competing and Coordinating Discourses in a Green Building Movement
Kathryn Henderson Texas A&M University
7.2 New Media Studies Meets STS:
Networked Gaming
Organizer: Mizuko Ito
Discussant: Bruce Sterling
San Jose Room
· Power, Play, and Performance: Studying Virtual Worlds
Douglas Thomas...............
University of Southern California
· Lag in Second Life: Time, Cybercultures of Production and Game Studies
Tom Boellstorff..........
University of California, Irvine
· Neopoints and Neo Economies: Emergent Regimes of Value in Kids Peer-to-Peer Networks
Mizuko Ito....... University of Southern California
7.3 Author Meets Critics: Keating and
Cambrosio
Organizer: Stephen Hilgartner
Sacramento Room
Authors: Alberto Cambrosio and
Peter Keating
Critics: Steven Epstein,
Vololona Rabeharisoa and
Michael Lynch
7.4 Interoperability: Interventions –
Beyond Standards II
Organizers: David Ribes and
Geoff Bowker
Discussant: Susan Leigh Star
Santa Barbara Room
· Standardizing Space: A Case Study of A Geospatial Digital Library
Hamid R. Ekbia and Nathan Stout..................... ....... University of Redlands
University of Redlands
· Infrastructure Development and Personal Change
Lyn Headley..............
University of California, San Diego
· What is ‘social science’ to Cyberinfrastructure?
David Ribes
University of California San Diego
· Designing from Within: A Case Study of Embedded Networked Sensing
Christine L. Borgman and Noel Enyedy......
University of California, Los Angeles
7.5 Genders in and of Engineering
(Affiliated with the International
Network for Engineering Studies)
Organizer: Wendy Faulkner
Chair: Karen Tonso
San Diego Room
· Race, Class, Gender, and Knowledge in Early 19th-Century Engineering Education in the Southern USA
Jonson Miller...... Virginia Tech
· Student Engineers and Identity: Masculinities, Femininities, Expertise, and Power
Karen L. Tonso Wayne State University
· "Building the Woman Engineer": The Activism of Canadian Women Engineers since the 1970's
Ruby Heap....... University of Ottawa
· ‘Can I Get Your Email?’: Gender, Social Capital and Networking among Engineering Undergraduates
Shelley Erickson Arizona State University
7.6 Interrogating Nanotechnologies III:
Governing Nanotechnology in the
Workplace, the Marketplace, and the
Polity
Organizers: Clark A. Miller and Cyrus C. M. Mody
Pasadena Room
· Techno-glocalism: the National Science Foundation, Nanotechnology and the
End of the Cold War
Jason Gallo Northwestern University
· Tracking Nanotech: The Debate over Merrill Lynch’s Nano Stock Index and the
Boundaries of Nanotechnology
Daniel Thurs....... Cornell University
· Comparative Perspectives on the Governance of Emerging Technologies: Lessons for Nanotechnology
Clark A. Miller...................
University of Wisconsin-Madison
· Uncertain, Unknown, Unseen or Ignored? How Scientists’ Standpoints Shape Their
Nanotechnology Risk Frames
Maria Powell.................
University of Wisconsin-Madison
· Nanotechnology and the Public in Japan
Yasumoto Fujita and Shuji Abe.......... NAIST.............................
7.7 Organizing Science
Pacific Ballroom A
· New Forms of Scientific Integration
John N. Parker..... Arizona State University
· Research Centers as Agents of Change in Different Institutional Contexts: Their Role in Minority Serving Institutions and EPSCoR States
Juan D. Rogers................
..... Georgia Institute of Technology
· Kepler: Visual Modeling Middleware that Captures the Process of Science
Samantha Romanello and Deana
Pennington....... University of New Mexico
7.8 Trading Zones and Interactional
Expertise
Organizer: Michael E. Gorman
Chair: Ed Hackett
Discussants: Jim Spohrer and
Brad Allenby
Pacific Ballroom B
· Imitating Expertise: Experiments in the Sociology of Knowledge
Robert Evans and Harry Collins
.. Cardiff School of Social Sciences
· Imitating Expertise: More Experiments on Interactional ExpertiseI
Harry Collins and Robert Evans.....
.. Cardiff School of Social Sciences
· Trading Zones During Innovation in Both Education and Environmental Business
Matthew M. Mehalik.........
University of Pittsburgh
· Trading Zones, Interactional Expertise and Emerging Technologies
Michael E. Gorman....... University of Virginia
7.9 Post-Genomic Gutures and Their
Representations/Performance in
Science and Technology Studies
Organizers: Brian Wynne and
Ruth McNally
Pacific Ballroom C
· Post-Genomic Celebrations of Biological Complexity: (re) Intimations of Control
Brian Wynne Lancaster University
· Beyond the Human Genome Project: Revolutions, Omics and Turfwars
Ruth McNally and Peter Glasner ESRC
· DNA-testing of Fatherhood: Does it Make a New Standard?
Kristin Hestflått.. NTNU
· Translations Across the Machine-Nature Border
Joan H. Fujimura..............
University of Wisconsin, Madison
7.10 The Conservative Challenge to
Scientific Hegemony: Insights from
STS
Organizer: Carl Mitcham
San Marino Room
· Republican Science: Contested Knowledge and Political Ideology
Frank N. Laird.. University of Denver
· Leon Kass and the Pre-emptive Ethics of Biotechnology
Carl Mitcham Colorado School of Mines
· The Logical Reconstruction of Science vs. the Social Construction of Science
Juan Bautista Bengoetxea........
University of the Basque Country
· Representing Climate Science in the Face of Unruly Opposition
Naomi Oreskes...............
University of California, San Diego
7.11 Changing the Subject: Rethinking
Scientific Liberalism
Organizers: Rebecca Herzig and
Jenny Reardon
Discussant: Rebecca Herzig
Monterey Room
· More and Better Life: Lamarckian Eugenics as the Undead
Diane M. Nelson........ Duke University
· Transcending Rodents, Modeling Human Agency: Genetics/Genomics and the
Environmental Health Sciences
Sara Shostak Columbia University
· Global Citizenship? Genetics, Nations and the Politics of Citizenship
Banu Subramaniam.....
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
· Genetic Exchange and the Constitution of the Ethical Subject
Jenny Reardon..............
University of California, Santa Cruz
7.12 Methods
Pasadena II Room
· Using Situational Analysis to Design Multi-Site STS Projects
Adele E. Clarke....................
University of California, San Francisco
· Studying across Global Singularities in Science Studies:Beyond “Culture” and the Discourse of Exceptionalism
Roddey Reid.....................
....... University of California, San Diego
· Network Dynamics and the Problem of Trust in Interorganizational Collaboration
Ingrid Erickson Stanford University
· Why Analyses of Boundaries are Less Useful Than Analyses of Relationships of Power
Kelly Moore University of Cincinnati
Arizona State University Reception 5:30-6:00
Room TBA
4S Business Meeting 6:00-7:00
Del Mar Room
Reception (Cash Bar) 6:00-7:00
International Ballroom Foyer
Banquet (ticketed event) 7:00-9:00
International Ballroom
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2005
SESSION 8 8:30-10:00
8.1 Producing Nature
Organizer: Wyatt Galusky
Del Mar Room
· On Considering the Domesticated Chicken as a Form of Technology, and What Such a Consideration Might Have to Say About Nature and Technology
Wyatt Galusky SUNY-Morrisville
· Ecological Media, but not the Print Kind: Tying Nature and Science Together in 19th Century Agrarian America
Benjamin Cohen....... University of Virginia
· The Place of Research in the Monarch Butterfly Controversy
Christopher Henke Colgate University
8.2 Media Studies Meets STS:
Information Visualization and Media
Design
Organizer: Julian Bleecker
Discussant: Tara McPherson
San Jose Room
· Towards an Archaeology of the Future
Laura Watts.. Lancaster University
· Landscape as Interface: How Creative Uses of the Global Positioning System
Enable Location Aware Med???
Julian Bleecker..............
University of Southern California
· Visualizing and Voicing the Science/Culture Interface
Marsha Kinder.................
· Unseen Forces: The Ecology of Electronic Book Review (4.0)
Ewan Branda
University of California, Los Angeles
Anne Burdick.......... Art Center College of Design
8.3 STS meets History of Ideas
Sacramento Room
· Bruno Latour’s “Felix Culpa”: Science Studies, Context, and the Politics of Knowledge
Nadine I. Kozak
University of California, San Diego
· The History of "Useful Science:" S&TS and the History of Ideas
Anna Maerker Max Planck Institute
· Technological Risk and Justice: Kristin Shrader-Frechette’s Philosophical Critique of Risk Assessment
Topi Heikkero....... University of Helsinki
· The Evolution of a Stable Practice: Conceptual and Methodological Developments in Risk Assessment
Rachel Washburn..........
University of California, San Francisco
8.4 The Global Commodification and
Privatization of Healthcare I
Organizers: Lorna Ronald and Jill Fisher
Santa Barbara Room
· Direct-to-Consumer Advertising: Creating Empowered Consumers?
Lorna Ronald
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· Racialization of a Generic Drug: the Commodity Fetishism of Thiazide
Anne Pollock................
... Massachusetts Institute of Technology
· Redefining a Technology: Public and Private Genetic Testing in Aoteoroa, New Zealand
Anne Scott and Rosemary Du Plessis ................
University of Canterbury
· Prescription for Conflict: the Impact of Russian Social Reforms on Prescription Medicine
Anna Geltzer Cornell University
8.5 Cultural Dynamics of Engineering and
New Technology (affiliated with the
Intenational Network of Engineering
Studies)
Organizers: Gary Downey and
Knut Sorensen
San Diego Room
· When Hackers Become Parents: Coming of Age in ICT
Birgit Nestvold NTNU
· The Co-Production of Gender and ICT Policy in a Transnational Perspective
Nora Levold, Knut H. Sørensen and
Vivian A. Lagesen.. NTNU
· Past Futures and Technoscientific Innovation: Science Fiction in the Lives of
Scientists and Engineers
Kenneth R. Fleischmann.......
....... Florida State University
· Technoscience at the Intersection of Institutional and National Boundaries: the Development and Diffusion
Amit Prasad.................
University of Wisconsin, Madison
8.6 Feminist Technologies: Case Studies
in Designing Technologies for
Women’s Bodies
Organizers: Kate Boyer, Sharra Vostral
and Linda Layne
Discussant: Judy Wajcman
Chair: Kate Boyer
Santa Clara Room
· Hidden Assurances: Tampons, Design, and the Question of Unruly Female Bodies
Sharra Vostral................
. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· New barriers to HIV: Negotiating the Design of a Female-Controlled Preventive Technology
Anita Hardon................
.......... Amsterdam School for Social Science Research
· Feminist Technologies: The Case of the Home Pregnancy Test
Linda L. Layne..................
........... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· A Need to Bleed? Nature, Necessity, and Menstruation
Jennifer Aengst................
University of California, Davis
8.7 Borderliners: Unruly Secrets and the
Technopolitics of Knowledge
Organizer: Paul N. Edwards
Santa Monica Room
· Translucency and the Technopolitics of Resistance in Apartheid South Africa
Paul N. Edwards and Gabrielle Hecht..
University of Michigan
· "Sensitive but Unclassified": Secrecy and the Counter-Terrorist State
Joseph Masco University of Chicago
· Secrecy, Style, and the Drawing of Nuclear Weapons
Alex Wellerstein Harvard University
8.8 Property, Presence, and Practice: IT
and Instruction in Higher Ed
Organizers: Jennifer L. Croissant,
Gary Rhoades and Sheila Slaughter
Tower I
· Organizational Socialization in Chemical Engineering and Biology Departments
Rebecca Debenport....... University of Arizona
· Information Technology Professionals' Attitudes Towards Intellectual Property Policy: Whose Side are You On?
Glenn H. Williams University of Arizona
· Hybrid Learning Collectives: Enacting a Distance Education Ontology
Francis Lee Linköping University
8.9 Formal/Informal Encounters:
A Genesis of Unruly Objects
Organizer: Susan Leigh Star
Tower II
· Feminism and Formalism
Susan Leigh Star.. Santa Clara University
· Measures of Chernobyl Radiation
Olga Kuchinskaya......
University of California, San Diego
· Negotiating The Unruly – Speed/Speed Limits And Politics In Road Infrastructures
Jane Summerton Linkoping Universitet
8.10 Unruly Numbers
Tower III
· Formalizing Practices: False Numbers and other Forms of Knowledge
Martha Lampland............
University of California, San Diego
· "A Wispy Thing Like Smoke": Accounting for Error in Forensic Identification
Simon Cole....... University of California, Irvine
· Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves: Talk as Strategy and Management in Sales Forecasting
Melissa Cefkin and Jeanette Blomberg............
..... IBM Almaden Research Center
· The ‘clever and crooked path’ for Corporate Financial Accountability
Gian Marco Campagnolo.......
University of Trento
8.11 The Future
Tower IV
· The Role of Boundary Objects in Integrative Medicine
Ellen J. Salkeld University of Arizona
· Imagining the Ward of the 21st Century
Patrick Feng University of Calgary
· "Tomorrow’s Operating Theatre": New Technologies for Collaboration in and Around an Operating Theatre
Tor Erik Evjemo NTNU
· Technology Nurtured - Patterns of Redesigning and Representing away Anomalies in a New Technology
Sampsa Hyysalo University of Helsinki
8.12 Science, Religion, Publics and Politics
Tower V
· The Secret, the Sacred, and the Scientific: Modern Islamic Views on Knowledge
Production and Representation
Kyriaki Papageorgiou....
· Culture-Talk, Islam and Technology in Senegal
Pauline Kusiak Northwestern University
· Defining the Public, Defining Sociology: Complementary Perspectives in the Study of Science and Religion
Michael S. Evans
University of California, San Diego
SESSION 9 10:30-12:00
9.1 Weather and Water
Del Mar Room
· Archives, Models, and Rivers: Deliberative Design and the Politics of Water
Steven Jackson University of Michigan
· Negotiating the Weather: Weather Forecasting in the Digital Age
Phaedra Daipha University of Chicago
· Coping with the Threat of Climate Change: Technological Strategies and Cultural
Responses
Marianne Ryghaug NTNU
· Strategies of Dissent: The Case of Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
Erik Conway Jet Propulsion Laboratory
9.2 New Media Studies Meets STS:
Historicizing Design: Some
Alternative Origin Stories for
Technological Design
Organizer: Tara McPherson
Discussant: Nina Wakeford
San Jose Room
· Comprehensive Design and the Technocratic Counterculture
Fred Turner Stanford University
· Exhibiting Electronic Culture: Notes from Mid-Century
Tara McPherson........
University of Southern California
· Click to Add Title: PowerPoint Demonstrations and the New Economy of Persuasion
Verena Paravel and David Stark..........
Columbia University
· Engineering the Technological Imagination
Anne Balsamo
University of Southern California
9.3 Purity and Danger
Sacramento Room
· The Values of Provocation: What Happened to the Danger in Science and Technology Studies?
Steve Woolgar University of Oxford
· Unruly Indeed: The Significance of Laboratory Break-Ins
Tom Gieryn and Emily Meanwell............
..... Indiana University
· Scientist Hires Witch to Exorcise Tower: Using Magic to Conjure Science Differently
Michelle Corbin University of Maryland
9.4 The Global Commodification and
Privatization of Healthcare II
Organizers: Lorna Ronald and Jill Fisher
Santa Barbara Room
· Translating Participation into Pharmaceutical ‘Results’: Manifestations of
Hegemony in the Privatization of Clinical
Trials
Jill A Fisher..... Arizona State University
· Science, the State and Transnational Clinical Trials: Contesting ‘Tenofovir’ in Nigeria
Kristin Peterson... Michigan State University
· Capturing Research: From Ibuprofen to Vioxx
Sergio Sismondo Queen's University
9.5 Internet Effects
San Diego Room
· Gender and Science in Developing Areas: Has the Internet Reduced Inequality?
B. Paige Miller Louisiana State University
· Tale of Two Golpes: the Legacy of Dictatorship, Chilean Science and the Internet
Ricardo B. Duque. Louisiana State University
Guillermo Henriquez...........
Universidad de Concepcion
Wesley Shrum Louisiana State University
· Internet as a Tool for Network Activism. A Case study of the electronic governance of World Social Forums
Cardon Dominique and Christophe
Aguiton
.. Lab de sociologie des usages France Télécom
· Inter-racial Community Building through Blogs
Yuya Kiuchi
University of Massachusettes, Boston
9.6 Feminist Technologies: Case Studies in
Designing Technologies for Women’s
Bodies
Organizers: Kate Boyer, Sharra Vostral
and Linda Layne
Chair: Sharra Vostral
Santa Clara Room
· Breast Pumps: A Feminist Technology, or (yet) ‘More Work for Mother’?
Kate Boyer........... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Maia Boswell
..... State University of New York at Albany
· Mapping Emotional Governance: 100 Years of Incubator Ads
Kyra Landzelius............ .............................
... Institute for Advanced Studies on Science
Technology and Society
· Re-envisioning Neonatal Intensive Care Through an Interdisciplinary Design Studio
Frances Bronet University of Oregon
9.7 Biodiversity
Santa Monica Room
· “Seeing” Genes: Seed Banks and the Preservation of Biodiversity—But Just
What is Being Preserved?
Michael S. Carolan Colorado State University
· Scientific Practice and Biodiversity: Amateurs and Professionals
Cameron Taylor University of Melbourne
· The Unruliness of Biodiversification: The Unreal Real of Dot Maps and Biological
Recording in the UK
Rebecca Ellis Lancaster University
· Objects of Wonder, Subjects of Controversy: The Hidden History of Hortus Indicus Malabaricus
Sita Reddy.................
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and
Cultural Heritage
9.8 Educations
Tower I
· Beyond Nature: Critical Engaging Science to Queer Teachers and Students
Jane L. Lehr King's College London
· Educational Technology and the Morphology of Risk
David Shutkin........ John Carroll University
Matthew Weinstein... Kent State University
· Seeing Science Education for What It Is, Was, and Could Be
Rodney Ogawa, Rhiannon Crain, Molly
Loomis, Tamara Ball and Ruth Kim............
University of California, Santa Cruz
· Unsettling Science in the Classroom: Too Little Unruliness
Michael Flower Portland State University
9.9 Madness, Crime, Eradication:
Practicing the State Through the Body
Organizer: Michelle Stewart
Discussant: Patrick Carroll
Tower II
· The Biopolitics of Fumigation
Kristina Lyons
University of California, Davis
· “Mental Health”, Medical Discourses and Neo-liberal Policies in Peru
Rossio Motta..................
University of California, Davis
· Investigating/Investigated Bodies: Practicing the State through Crime "Sciences"
Michelle Stewart
University of California, Davis
· New Bodies, New Crimes
Henrique Luiz Cukierman and
Ivan da Costa Marques..
...... Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
9.10 Politics of Knowledge II
Tower III
· The Political Economy of Tacit Knowledge: Power and Exploitation in a
Mathematical Field
Daniel Breslau Virginia Tech
· The Transhumanist Network: Population as a Terrain of Struggle in Visions of Advanced Technoscience
Ben Grosscup Hampshire College
· Asperger's Solitary Ally: Psychiatric Debate and the Educational Policy on Autism in
Postwar Japan
Kohei Inose and Masato Fukushima..........
The University of Tokyo
· Academic Cartography: How Patents Shape Biological Research
Leah Nichols
University of California, Berkeley
9.11 Carnevalesque medicine: Representing
and Displaying Curious, Anecdotal,
Unique, Peculiar and Monstrous
Biomedical Objects
Organizer: Thomas Soderqvist
Tower IV
· Refusing Categorisation and Contextualisation – Biomedical Researchers as Singularities
Thomas Soderqvist..........
University of Copenhagen
· Cryptic Particularities – Possible Uses of Objects and Anecdotes in the Study of Science and Technology
Adam Bencard University of Copenhagen
· Revisiting Curiosity – Utilizing Weird and Singular Objects in Exhibitions of
Recent Biomedical Science
Camilla Mordhorst..........
University of Copenhagen
9.12 The Past: What an Unruly Thing!
Organizers: Matt Ratto, Michael Shanks
and Christopher Witmore
Tower V
· Dissimilar Simulation: the Epistemics of Simulation in Archeology
Matt Ratto
.... Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts
and Science
· Listening to Things: Augmented Reality and the Science Question in Archaeology
Michael Shanks Stanford University
· The Liquid Document: Between Paperwork and the Digital in a Symmetrical Archaeology
Christopher Witmore Stanford University
Lunch 12:00-1:30
Meetings
Monterey
Video Ethnography III, Roundtable
Organizers: Wes Shrum, Marianne de Laet,
Jay Prag, Scott Frank and Rick Duque
Santa Clara Room
Feminist Technologies: Case Studies in Designing Technologies for Women's Bodies
Organizers: Kate Boyer, Linda Layne and Sharra Vostral
San Jose Room
New Media Outlets for Scholarship
Organizers: Josh Greenberg, Sergio Sismondo
and Tarleton Gillespie
SESSION 10 1:30-3:00
10.1 Biotech
Del Mar Room
· When Models Misbehave: Developing Standardized Organisms into Model Systems
Jeanette Simmonds...........
· Animal Embodiments: Mapping the Practice of Cloning Animals of Endangered Species
Carrie Friese
University of California, San Francisco
10.2 Joint 4S/ISSI Panel on Mapping
Science
Organizer: Henry Small
San Jose Room
· Combined Mapping of the Science and Technology Literature at the Structural and Detailed Levels
Kevin Boyack Sandia National Laboratories
· Visualizing Critical Trails of Scientific Knowledge
Chaomei Chen.......... Drexel University
· Citation structure of an Emerging Research Area
Henry Small
· Studying and Supporting the Emerging Global Brain
Katy Börner Indiana University
10.3 Divergence: Object, Intermediary,
User (I) and II
Organizers: Michael Lynch, Janet
Vertesi and Rachel Prentice
Discussant: Lucy Suchman
Sacramento Room
· Swimming in the Joint: Surgery, Technology, and Perception
Rachel Prentice... Cornell University
· Laser-SharpVisions? Images and Uses of the Laser, 1960
Rebecca Slayton. Stanford University
10.4 e-health: Information +
Individual=Empowerment (Or Does
it?)
Organizer: Judith Krajnak
Santa Barbara Room
· Health Literacy: How to Reach People who Can't Get or Understand Health Information?
Irving Rootman....... University of Victoria
· Online/Offline: Studying User Experience of Consumer Health Information
Karen Smith Simon Fraser
· You’ve Got Information! Findings from a Provincial Health Information Program
Involving Teletriage
Judith Krajnak
University of British Columbia
· Is Unruliness Good for Your Health?
Lorna Heaton Université de Montréal
10.5 Global Research Practices
San Diego Room
· Japanese Government Fund for Genome Research
Yuko Ito..
National Institute of Science
and Technology Policy
· Domination of the Scientific Field: the Capital Struggle in A Chinese
Wei Hong University of Illinois at Chicago
· Increasingly Complex Relationships between Research and Training in the
Biomedical Sciences: Evidence from Three
Large Labs in Canada
Annalisa Salonius McGill University
· Neutral Accent: the Social Life of International Call Centers in India
A. Aneesh
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
10.6 Doing Gender
Santa Clara Room
· Deconstructing the Co-Construction of Gender and Technology?
Vivian A. Lagesen NTNU
· Gender, Magic, and the Reification of Other
Deborah Blizzard
Rochester Institute of Technology
· Talking Science, Telling Stories, Doing Gender?
Rosemary Du Plessis.......
University of Canterbury
· Contesting Contraceptive Innovation - Rescribing the Script
Anita Hardon
Amsterdam School for Social Science Research
10.7 Governing Information Technologies
Santa Monica Room
· Political Objectives and Governance of Information and Communication Technologies
Antti Pelkonen University of Helsinki
· Technoscience Studies of Free/Libre and Open Source Computing:
Methodological Perspectives from the
Malaysian Case
David Hakken Indiana University
· Information Technologies and Unruliness in the Newspaper Industry
Ronize Aline Matos de Abreu..................
...... COPPE-UFRJ and UniCarioca
Ivan da Costa Marques IM-NCE-UFRJ
10.8 Looking Multimodally: New Views of
Teaching, Learning and Play
Organizers: Jennifer Jenson and
Suzanne de Castell
Tower I
· More than Words Can Say: Using Multimedia to Study Teaching and Learning Multi-Modally
Suzanne de Castell.. Simon Fraser University
· Closer Look at Boredom: 'Behavioral Enrichment' and Serious Play
Nicholas Taylor and Jennifer Jenson.
......... York University
· Tell Me about It: What Girls Say and What They Play
Jennifer Jenson York University
· Posthuman Playspaces: Human-Machine Interaction in Digital Games
Bart Simon Concordia University
10.9 Affective Anatomies: Biomedical
Encounters and Somatic Events
Organizers: Natasha Myers, Natalie Loveless
and Mary Weaver
Discussant: Donna Haraway
Tower II
· Experiential Anatomies: Modeling Bodies Through “Deep-tissue” Physiology
Natasha Myers.................
... Massachusetts Institute of Technology
· Volitional Embodiments: Medicine and Transsexuality
Mary Weaver...............
University of California, Santa Cruz
· 'Farther Uses of the Dead for the Living': Günter von Hagens' Korperwelten (Bodyworlds)
Natalie Loveless.............
University of California, Santa Cruz
10.10 Bioethics
Tower III
· Killer Applications: The Metabolic Syndrome, Racial Inequalities in Diabetes
and Cardiovascular Disease
Anthony R. Hatch..........
University of Maryland College Park
· Displaced Ethics? Tracing Bioethics in the Context of a Participatory Scientist-Lay Interaction in the Field of Genomics
Michael Strassnig, Annina Müller,
Maximilian Fochler and Ulrike Felt...........
University of Vienna
· Mapping ELSI
José López University of Ottawa
· Herding Cats: Bioethics Education Policies, Unruly Life Scientists and Anomalous Local Narratives in Italy, the UK and the US
Laurel Smith-Doerr Boston University
10.11 Art
Tower IV
· Molecular Biography: Science-based Art as a Resource for Science Studies
Dehlia Hannah Columbia University
· Scientific Objects and Truth Discourse in the Performances of the Critical Art Ensemble
Lindsay Kelley..................
University of California, Santa Cruz
· Digitalisation of Cultural and Scientific Collections – Museums as Multi-Actor Spaces
Per Hetland NIFU STEP
· Soft Science
Rachel Mayeri.... Harvey Mudd College
10.12 Author Meets Critic
Organizer: Gary Downey
Author: Nelly Oudshoorn
Critics: Wiebe Bijker, Adele Clarke
and Leigh Star
Tower V
SESSION 11 3:00-5:30
11.1 Clean Energy
Del Mar Room
· Innovation Processes – the Hype and Hope for Cleaner Energy
Anne Louise Koefoed.
.............. Norwegian School of Management
· Controversies About Wind Turbine Design: Facilitating Crossdisciplinary Communication?
Ingrid Øverås NTNU
· The Making of “Holey” Plans - The Politics of Siting and Localisation of Wind
Farms in Norway and Scotland
Jøran Solli NTNU
· Steel Forests and Smoke Stacks: The Role of Imagery and Aesthetics in Wind
Power Debates
Roopali Phadke
Harvard University/Macalester College
· ANT (AND) Discourse, Why Not?
Martin Hultman Linköping University
11.2 Technology and Regulation in a Brave
New Media World: Between Norms,
Laws and Markets
Organizers: Shay David, Dan L. Burk,
Julie E. Cohen, Priscila Faulhaber and
Sasha Costanza-Chock
San Jose Room
· Licensing for a Collaborative World
Shay David..................
.... Cornell Science and Technology Studies
· Beyond Copyleft: Patenting Open Source Bioinformatics
Dan L. Burk
University of Minnesota Law School
· Recollecting Indigenous Thinking
Priscila Faulhaber Barbosa
. Museu Goeldi/MCT
· New Progressive Coalitions in Global Media Policy Processes
Sasha Costanza-Chock
University of Southern California
· Normal Discipline in the Age of Crisis
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
11.3 Divergence: Object, Intermediary,
User (II)
Organizers: Michael Lynch,
Janet Vertesi and Rachel Prentice
Discussant: Michael Lynch
Sacramento Room
· Mind The Gap: The London Underground Map and Users’ Narratives of Urban
Space
Janet Vertesi Cornell University
· Shifting Scales in Architectural Design
Albena Yaneva................
... Austrian Academy of Sciences
· Professional Vision and the Technological Future of Breast Cancer Detection
Catelijne Coopmans Imperial College London
11.4 Unruly Subjects: The Politics of
Medicalization in the 21st Century
Organizer: Jonathan Metzl
Santa Barbara Room
· Gender Stereotypes in the Diagnosis of Depression: A Systematic Analysis of
Medical Records
Jonathan Metzl University of Michigan
· Pharma Porn: Making the Case for Medicalization
Nick King Case University
· Biological Involution and Immigrant Bodies: The Medicalization of Citizenship
Miriam Ticktin University of Michigan
· Constructing Inner Space: Biomedical Narratives of Depression
Jeff Stepnisky...........
University of Maryland, College Park
11.5 States in Action: Accounting for
Techniques, Politics, and
Outcomes in International
Technoscientific Projects
Organizer: Dan Plafcan
Discussant: Paul Edwards
San Diego Room
· How States are—and are not—Bound in Techno-Political Configurations: The
International Politics of Constructing a
Remote-Sensing System
Dan Plafcan University of Tokyo
· Fragile Alliances: Nuclear Power in Central and Eastern Europe
Sonja Schmid.. Stanford University
· Creating Scientific Cooperation Across Boundaries: Marine Science and the Quest
for Understanding
Sara Tjossem Columbia University
11.6 Gender and Technology
Santa Clara Room
· The Intersection of Feminism, Technology Studies, and Social Justice: The Case of
Doing Research on Computer Tinkering in
Taiwan
Honghong Tinn
..... State University of New York, Albany
· How Does Sex Selection Technology Travel? A Postcolonial Feminist Perspective
Chia-Ling Wu National Taiwan University
· Gender Stratification and E-Science: Can the Internet Circumvent Patrifocality?
Meredith Anderson and Wesley Shrum...
Louisiana State University
· Replacement Therapy in Turkey: Controversy at the Intersection of Gender
Identity, Medicine and Modernization
Maral Erol Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
· CS, VBAC, and Gynecological Surgery: Connections and Contradictions of Action
Networks in Post-War Taiwan
Fu Daiwie National Tsing-Hua University
11.7 Beyond Privacy and Property:
Rethinking the ICT Policy Landscape
Organizers: Michael Curry and
Leah Lievrouw
Discussant: Michael Curry
Santa Monica Room
· Read at Your Own Risk: Shrinkage of Privacy and Interactive Media
Lemi Baruh University of Pennsylvania
· Retentive Amnesiac: On the Emerging Digital Past
Jean-Francois Blanchette..........
University of California, Los Angeles
· Ecologies of Attention and Forgetting: Intellectual Freedom, Place, and ICTs
Michael R. Curry and Leah A. Lievrouw.......
University of California, Los Angeles
· Subcultural Knowledge and the Information Commons – but I Think you have the Latest Information on That
David J. Phillips
University of Texas at Austin
11.8 Representations
Tower I
· Representation of Unruly Actors in Technology Production:Technology,
Disablement and Political Procedure
Vasilis Galis Linköping University
· The Controversy of the Representations about the Use of the NTIC in Education:
the “Red-P” Case in Bogota, Colombia
Yuri Romero, Javier Jimenez and
Monica Bustamante..................
. University of Andes /University National
of Colombia
· Representational and Communication Challenges in Discourses on the Societal
Impacts of Technologies
Elizabeth Keating
University of Texas at Austin
· A Case Study of MoveOn.com during the 2004 Presidential Campaign
Noriko Hara Indiana University
Hamid Ekbia University of Redlands
11.9 Unruly Bodies and Anomalous Minds:
The Figuring of Women in Human
Genomics
Organizers: Maureen McNeil &
Lancaster Team
Tower II
· Unruly Bodies and Anomalous Minds: The Figuring of Women in Human
Genomics
Maureen McNeil Lancaster University
· Gendered Bodies, Reproduction and Genomic Film Narratives
Kate O’Riordan Lancaster University
· Scientist, Source Material or Clone-carrier: Women’s Bodies in Genomic
News Discourses
Joan Haran Cardiff University
· 'Drawing a Line' Versus Processes of Normalisation
Merete Lie, Kristin Hestflått and
Malin Noem Ravn NTNU
· Gender, Genes and Reproduction
Merete Lie NTNU
11.10 Impact and Performance
Measurements
Tower III
· Online Visualization of Local (and Policy-Relevant) Impact Environments of the Journals of the (Social) Scinece Citation Index
Loet Leydesdorff....... University of Amsterdam
· Drawing Boundaries: An Examination of Meta Analysis as Used By Psychology
Regan Shercliffe and Megan Tuttle.....
University of Regina
· Findings from e-Learning Partnership Case Studies; Critically Assessing Partnership
Performance Measurements
Zenon Zambakides University of Edinburgh
· The Structure of Impact Factor of Academic Journals in the Field of Education and Educational Psychology: Citations Coming from Articles Published by Their Editorial
Board Members (I)
Juan Miguel Campanario and
Lidia Gonzalez... Universidad de Alcalá
· The Structure of Impact Factor of Academic Journals in the Field of Education and
Educational Psychology (II)
Juan Miguel Campanario........
Universidad de Alcalá
11.11 Feral Expertise in Engineering and
STS
Organizers: Natalie Jeremijenko and
Park Doing
Commentator: Will Kavesh Pratt
Tower IV
· Velvet Revolutions and Sustainable Worlds: Expertise Inside and Outside the
Laboratory
Park Doing Cornell University
· Engineering Expertise that Defines Its Limits
Gary Downey Virginia Tech
· Open Sources: Robots-Action-Experts
Natalie Jeremijenko........
University of California, San Diego
· Public Space, Public Discussion and Social Computing
Warren Sack
University of California, Santa Cruz
11.12 Encyclopedic Knowledge: Critical Comparisons of Two Neo- Enlightenment Projects
- Organizer: Carl Mitcham
- Discussant: Rudi Volti
Now We Know You’re Crazy’ (H.M. Collins): Making Encyclopedias, or Running Around in Circles
- Sal Restivo Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The Ethical Failures of the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics versus the STS Achievements of the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society
- Carl Mitcham Colorado School of Mines
Macmillan Reference and Oxford University Press Reception 5:30-6:00
External Links
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