[eccr] After Social Construction: Technology, Knowledge and Society

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>AFTER SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION: TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY
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>A Special Issue of _Social Epistemology_
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>500 word proposals due:  1 December 2003
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>Submission Deadline: 1 March 2004
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>Issue Editors Jonathan Sterne and Joan Leach
>
>Formatted .html and .pdf calls available at
>http://www.pitt.edu/~jsterne/asc.html.
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>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
>that SCOT does nothing more than repeatedly discover that it objects
>are "socially constructed."
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>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?
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>For our special issue of _Social Epistemology_, the editors seek two
>kinds of submissions:
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>***full length essays (approximately 9000 words) that challenge,
>extend, rethink or pose robust alternatives to the SCOT approach
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>***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
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>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 USA
>
>Email MS Word or .rtf encoded attachments to: (jsterne /at/ pitt.edu)


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