{"product_id":"the-handbook-of-science-and-technology-studies-fourth-edition-isbn-9780262035682","title":"The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, fourth edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eScience and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and rearrange contemporary societies. \u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Science and Technology Studies \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field, reviewing current research and major theoretical and methodological approaches in a way that is accessible to both new and established scholars from a range of disciplines. This new edition, sponsored by the Society for Social Studies of Science, is the fourth in a series of volumes that have defined the field of STS. It features 36 chapters, each written for the fourth edition, that capture the state of the art in a rich and rapidly growing field. One especially notable development is the increasing integration of feminist, gender, and postcolonial studies into the body of STS knowledge. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book covers methods and participatory practices in STS research; mechanisms by which knowledge, people, and societies are coproduced; the design, construction, and use of material devices and infrastructures; the organization and governance of science; and STS and societal challenges including aging, agriculture, security, disasters, environmental justice, and climate change.\u003c\/p\u003eUlrike Felt is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRayvon Fouché is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of American Studies at Purdue University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClark A. Miller is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Associate Director of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaurel Smith-Doerr is the Director of the Institute for Social Science Research and Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Law is Professor in Sociology at the University of Keele, Staffordshire, England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSally Wyatt is Program Leader of the e-Humanities Group at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMorana Alac is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Program in Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChris Salter is an artist, Codirector of the Hexagram network and University Research Chair in New Media, Technology, and the Senses at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEntangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJanet Vertesi is Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Princeton University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura Forlano is Associate Professor of Design at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology, where she is also Director of the Critical Futures Lab. She is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eFrom Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYanni Alexander Loukissas is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCo-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTeun Zuiderent-Jerak is Linköping University Research Fellow at Linköping University, Sweden. He was formerly Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDesigns on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States\u003c\/i\u003e and other books and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eEarthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press, 2004).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNancy D. Campbell is Professor and Head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eUsing Women: Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e;\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDiscovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research\u003c\/i\u003e; and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGendering Addiction: The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirginia Eubanks is the cofounder of Our Knowledge, Our Power (OKOP), a grassroots anti-poverty and welfare rights organization, and is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbby Kinchy is Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and coeditor of\u003ci\u003e Controversies in Science and Technology: From Maize to Menopause.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid J. Hess is Professor in the Sociology Department, James Thornton Fant Chair in Sustainability Studies, and Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAlternative Pathways in Science and Industry, Localist Movements in a Global Economy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGood Green Jobs in a Global Economy\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by the MIT Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdrian Mackenzie is Professor of Technological Cultures in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University and the author of \u003ci\u003eWirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeoffrey C. Bowker is Professor and Director of the Evoke Lab at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor (with Susan Leigh Star) of \u003ci\u003eSorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eMemory Practices in the Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by the MIT Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHector Postigo is Associate Professor in the Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications, and Mass Media in the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCasey O'Donnell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Information in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Feenberg is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. 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