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A Question of (STS) Style?
Many thanks to Fabio Rojas (whom I met for a sub for lunch in Bloomington back in 2005, but I don t think he will remember) for letting the readers of orgtheory know about our little blog. We just...
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the role of reviews in the social science
All this discussion of new infrastructuralism and the infrastructural relation between "black-boxing" and "institutionalization" makes me think about the role of reviews in social science. The question...
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Earliest use of "STS"?
Anyone happen to know the first use of "Science and Technology Studies" to describe a scholar, scholarly article, or line of research? Continue reading →
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What does the "knowledge myth" mean for SKAT/STS?
A colleague of mine wrote recently about the "myth of knowledge" in a nice blog post. Perhaps one of the most interesting and controversial (and most [overly] generalized) points was about Akido:...
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Greatest thing to happen to STS since the Bijker/Pinch paper
New interest in the micro-foundations of institutions has got to be one of the best things to happen to STS since the Bijker/Pinch paper... The new institutionalism in organizaitonal analysis has been...
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Should STS articles have methods sections?
It has come to my attention that a good number of STS case studies contain no methods section, and some no mention of method at all (typically utilizing a case study approach). So, I asked today:...
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Science and Technology Studies: Opening the Black Box
via youtube.com Somatosphere just posted a link to a set of video recordings from the STS - The Next Twenty Years conference in Harvard last April. I would have loved to go there, but unfortunately...
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Call for Papers: Performing ANT ??? Socio-Material Practices of Organizing,...
Just got that a few days ago and forgot to post it here - now as I am preparing for three weeks of "off-time" (meaning: a bit of traveling and weeks of being online only once every few days) I had to...
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Job offer: Amherst: Science and Technology Policy
And a job offer that sounds interesting: The Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (http://polsci.umass.edu/) seeks to fill a full-time tenure-track position at the...
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4S/EASST Open Panels: Program Practice
Copenhagen is coming closer every day - only 263 days to go until the next 4S/EASST joint meeting will take place this October. Nicholas already announced that we are going to organize a so called Open...
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My Best Fiend lectures: Fuller & Oswell recordings | CSISP
Steve Fuller: ???Bruno Latour and Some Notes on Some Also Rans??? (December 13th). Who is my best fiend? S/he is someone who has got the right facts mostly right but draws exactly the wrong normative...
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Not an open panel…Methodologies and Theories of Scale
As CfPs for "Open Panels" at 4S/EASST are frequently flooding our email clients at these days a remarkable regular panel (I actually have just seen two of them) is focussing on a topic we have...
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Water as a boundary liquid … ahhh…object
Good news for our friends in water infrastructure research (and for those interested in STS and state theory of course): Patrick Carrolls "Water, and Technoscientific State Formation in California" has...
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Infrastructural relics and ruins, or: is durability a good thing?
Since the old times of "inscription research" or maybe even longer one of the main frameworks for analyzing the social and cultural shaping of technology, infrastructure and socio-technical...
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Microfoundations, institutions and two ways of studying technologies
Quite some time ago we had a couple of posts on the possible links between STS and Neo-Institutionalism (see here, here, here and here) and about how both camps can be fruitfully matched in their...
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Why are we using case studies?
One of the troubling features of STS for those in the "traditional" disciplines (in my case: sociology) is not so much its theoretical movements towards multiplicity, heterogeneity, symmetry and the...
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Greetings, with a broad introduction
Over the next month, I will share research from my book in progress, New Metaphors for Global Living. This research, through the hermeneutic potential of the life sciences and the theoretical insights...
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Bogost and “Doing Things with Video Games”
What do video games do? After our friend, Dmfant, posted about Ian Bogost who keynotes the 10th Anniversary Games for Change Festival. I have recently reviewed How to do things with Videogames (by Ian...
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Is that really what is “wrong” with STS? Is there anything wrong?
Yesterday Nicholas posted a comment from org-theory that tries to grasp what might be wrong with STS. And although the discussion below that post is fascinating and thought-provocing, I am not so sure...
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Happy Holidays! See you all next year
This has been an interesting year for all of us at installingorder.org. We had a number of good topics this year and we are very happy that the blog is now way more interactive than it was before. We...
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