Science and Technology Studies scholars have in recent years made a major impact on the conjoining field of Social Studies of Markets, demonstrating how economi...

In June, emerging STS scholars gathered in Seoul to workshop draft manuscripts, encountering charismatic objects and a “concrete fish tank”. In this post, Lachlan Hensey reflects on the 2026 ST&HV STS...

The article expands upon care theory in Science and Technology Studies by attending to marine spaces and practices for conservation of marine and coastal ecosys...

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Since the late 2000s, artisanal and small-scale gold miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have incorporated mechanized ball mills in their workflow. W...

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This article challenges the view of technologies, and more particularly generative artificial intelligence (AI), as augmenting experience through binary human–c...

In Morogoro, Tanzania, people regularly embark on treasure hunting expeditions, usually near places or buildings associated with German colonialism. In recounti...

Today, science is expected to open up to publics and be more responsible. At the same time, the legitimacy and autonomy of academic work are increasingly challe...

As part of the Danish Climate Act of 2019, the government established a Climate Citizens’ Assembly to secure public participation in the formulation of climate ...

This study investigates the role of validation reports in legitimizing laboratory automation through artificial intelligence and robotic systems in clinical mic...

“Developmental New Space” might, at first glance, seem to be an oxymoron since New Space is often conceptualized as being free from centralized government suppo...

This article examines the transformation of terrarium building from a colonial-era hobbyist practice into a contemporary YouTube-based citizen science movement,...

Innovation is regularly depicted as the answer to regional socioeconomic decline and deindustrialization. Yet, the results of regional innovation strategies are...

This article builds on the affective turn in Science and Technology Studies (STS) analyses of public engagement with science to explore the tension between epis...

Temporality has become a prominent theme in research on infrastructure in science and technology studies. Infrastructure is often conceptualized as permanent an...

This paper explores the development of an algorithm for child welfare administration in Denmark. Based on an ethnographic study of the development process, we a...

Maritime movement has been essential to the current moment of capitalism, marked by the management and optimization of supply chains. As seaports continue to sc...

Digitalization of the grid promises a sustainable energy system. However, we do not fully understand how innovative technologies are introduced—and challenged—i...

WAVEMATTERS is a European Research Council funded project that investigates how physical waves, sound waves, electromagnetic waves and solar radiation, come to matter in contemporary urbanism.

Road traffic noise is considered the largest contributor to excessive noise exposure levels in Europe. Central to this type of noise is what is called “rolling ...

Through a case study of Meituan Waimai, China's dominant food delivery platform, this article examines how algorithmic management is entangled with labor p...

This paper deploys the concept of unruliness to examine ethnographically how groundwater in karst landscapes resists being rendered knowable and governable. Foc...

Donor conception is an area where increased emphasis on “openness” has produced major changes to legal, medical, and kinship practices. Anonymous gamete donatio...

This article examines the time politics of agroforestry science through an ethnographic study with scientists at the Institute for Farms and Forests (IFF) in Ch...

This article reactivates the concept of myth—which is well-developed in social science literature—to study digital technologies and platform economies. It conce...

How do experts stitch together seemingly irreconcilable scientific objects? This paper examines the way “endophenotypes” and “deep phenotyping” are deployed to ...

What can social scientists contribute to the development of AI? To date, their efforts have primarily been viewed through the lens of AI's social consequen...

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