[Commlist] CFP - 4S Open Panel: Tech/Money

mols sauter is delighted to announce the call for papers for their open 
panel on the theme of Tech/Money, as part of the 2025 4S conference. the 
organizers are particularly interested in the work of comm and media 
studies scholars as related to this theme.

Conference date + location: 3-7 September 2025, Seattle WA

CFP due date: 31 January 2025

to submit, please go to the 4S submission page and select Open Panel 
#170 "Tech/Money"
https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php 
<https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php>

4S 2025/Seattle
Open Panel #170: Tech/Money
https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_seattle.php 
<https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_seattle.php>

ABSTRACT: This open panel is themed on “Tech/Money,” highlighting a 
materialist, political economy approach to science and technology 
studies. We seek work that emphasizes an understanding of the role 
played by money, financing, and business structures in the study of 
technology and science. Moving beyond an economic analysis, this work 
should highlight the role of capital and finance’s movements, norms, and 
infrastructures in animating science and technology, inflecting and 
directing the performance of these spaces and their own ideologies, 
imaginaries, and infrastructures. We are interested in exploring the 
constitutive nature of money, finance, funding, and business models in 
the development of technologies and technosocial/technopolitical 
landscapes.  Some sub-themes are of particular interest include: 
temporalities of money, finance, and speculation; imaginaries of risk, 
particularly financialized risk; the role of the “frontier” (geographic, 
political, intellectual) in the technocapitalist imaginary and its 
influence on the practices of firms; the connected lives of “money,” 
“innovation,” and “science”; and the social meanings of money and 
markets in science. We hope to engage with a variety of methods in this 
project, with the particular hope that contributors will strongly engage 
with the local. Dealing unapologetically with ways in which the global 
logics of technocapital are often chewed up, altered, and digested by 
the specificities of the local context provides an opportunity to 
examine the tensions of resistance, collaboration, collusion, 
adaptation, and imitations, and enmeshment that often accompany these 
projects. We are keen on work that engages with the business to business 
sector, which concretizes and makes visible formerly abstract, hidden, 
or obscured processes and relationships. We are also interested in work 
that uses corporate grey materials such as annual reports, financial 
filings, public consultation publications, and other materials from the 
cultural circuit of capital, such as expos, conferences, industry 
publications, and other “in-group” communications.

please contact the panel chair with any questions
M. R. Sauter, University of Maryland, (mrsauter /at/ umd.edu) 
<mailto:(mrsauter /at/ umd.edu)>

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m.r. sauter
he/they
assistant professor
university of maryland
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