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After Social Construction: Technology, Knowledge and Society
A Special Issue of Social Epistemology
500 word proposals accepted through: 1 December
Paper Deadline: 1 March 2003
Issue Editors Jonathan Sterne and Joan Leach
As promoted by Bruno Latour, Wiebe Bijker, Trevor Pinch, and many others, social construction of technology (SCOT) approaches have been a major force in technology studies. They have offered vital alternatives to positivistic and deterministic conceptions of technology; rich notions of human and technological agency; and new objects and approaches for the cultural, historical and philosophical approaches to technology. At the same time, critics have charged SCOT with repeatedly discovering that objects are "socially constructed."
As the approach becomes more established in technology studies, and as authors like Ian Hacking challenge the limits of the SCOT paradigm, we want to know what comes next. Is this a moment to find the next step after social construction? Or is this a moment where we can build a new social epistemology of technology that presupposes a constructionist paradigm?
For our special issue of Social Epistemology, the editors seek two kinds of submissions:
--full length essays (approximately 9000 words) that challenge, extend, rethink or pose robust alternatives to the SCOT approach
--short position papers of no more than 1000 words for a forum on the SCOT paradigm and the future of technology studies.
Visit the Social Epistemology page at Routledge for full style guidelines:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/sepauth.html
Email submissions are preferred, though snail mail is acceptable. Send all submissions and queries to:
Jonathan Sterne
Department of Communication
University of Pittsburgh
1117 Cathedral of Learning
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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Steve Fuller
Professor of Sociology
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
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See first chapter of new book, _Kuhn vs Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science_: http://www.iconbooks.co.uk
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