The vast majority of social science research uses small (megabyte- or gigabyte-scale) datasets. These fixed- scale datasets are commonly…
There have been a number of calls for public engagement in geoengineering in recent years. However, there has been limited discussion of…
A Google search for a person's name, such as “Trevon Jones”, may yield a personalized ad for public records about Trevon that may be…
Human societies fashion themselves through rites of memory, gilding and illuminating
some pages of the past while consigning others to…
For years, the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has been saddled with a reputation for empirical narrowness and lack of…
Scholars in science and technology studies (STS) have recently been called upon to advise governments on the design of procedures for…
Sequencing the human genome provided a powerful new way to represent human identity, and the moral implications of that re-representation…
What is science’s proper role in democracy? A half-century ago the answer seemed plain: to “speak truth to power.” Science and politics…
How did the conflict between Vietnamese nationalists and French colonial rulers erupt into a major Cold War struggle between communism and…