Symposium: (5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025))

RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology

Program Coordinators: Junmin WANG (University of Memphis, USA), Leandro RAIZER (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil) and Renan DA SILVA (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

The Contrasting Effects of Digitalisation and Artifical Intelligence (AI) on Professional Activities
Session Organizer: Corinne DELMAS

11:00-12:45

Artificial Intelligence: Ethical, Legal and Societal Implications (Part I)
Session Organizer: Leandro RAIZER

13:00-14:45

Just Sequestration: Unpacking the Complexities of Climate Justice in Carbon Dioxide Removal
Session Organizers: Danny OTTO and Nils MATZNER

15:00-16:45

Where Are We at? Gender Disparities in STEM
Session Organizer: Paolo PARRA SAIANI

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Regulating Algorithmic Management of Work and Labor Markets: The Interplay of Public Laws, Private Governance and Direct Negotiations
Session Organizer: Scott B. MARTIN

Social Innovation, Its Potential and Challenges: View from the Global South and the Global North (Part I)
Session Organizers: Rafael DE BRITO DIAS and Chunrong LIU

11:00-12:45

Artificial Intelligence: Ethical, Legal and Societal Implications (Part II)
Session Organizer: Junmin WANG

13:00-14:45

Science, Technology and Innovation: Institutions, Policies, Industry and the State (Part I)
Session Organizer: Leandro RAIZER

15:00-16:45

Science, Technology and Innovation: Institutions, Policies, Industry and the State (Part II)
Session Organizer: Jongheon KIM

19:00-20:30

Sociological Understanding of the Science-Climate Nexus
Session Organizer: Prof. Thomas SAFFORD, Ph.D.

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Social Innovation, Its Potential and Challenges: View from the Global South and the Global North (Part II)
Session Organizers: Rafael DE BRITO DIAS and Chunrong LIU

Ways of Vaccination: Production, Allocation, Utilization, and Atonement for Side-Effects
Session Organizers: Jae-Mahn SHIM and Michael CALNAN

11:00-12:45

Ocean and Society: Organizational and Technological Developments (Part I)
Session Organizers: Kurt RACHLITZ, Michael GROTHE-HAMMER and Jennifer Leigh BAILEY

Science, Knowledge, Technology and Expertise in Contemporary Societies (Part I)
Session Organizer: Renan DA SILVA

13:00-14:45

Ocean and Society: Organizational and Technological Developments (Part II)
Session Organizers: Kurt RACHLITZ, Michael GROTHE-HAMMER and Jennifer Leigh BAILEY

Understanding Human-Computer Collaborations: Implications to scientific research and regimes of expertise
Session Organizer: Dan BAI

15:00-16:45

Science, Knowledge, Technology and Expertise in Contemporary Societies (Part II)
Session Organizer: Stefano CRABU

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Anticipatory Knowledge, Future Imaginaries and Societal Agency in Ecological Transformations (Part I)
Session Organizers: Stefan C. AYKUT, Nicolas BAYA-LAFFITE and Lise CORNILLEAU

Science and Technology in Society: Organizations, Regulations, Users and National Infrastructures
Session Organizer: Olga SALIDO CORTES

11:00-12:45

Anticipatory Knowledge, Future Imaginaries and Societal Agency in Ecological Transformations (Part II)
Session Organizers: Stefan C. AYKUT, Nicolas BAYA-LAFFITE and Lise CORNILLEAU

Research to Practice? Concepts of “Knowledge Transfer” and Their Elective Affinities (Part I)
Session Organizer: Dr. Walter BARTL
Chair: Robert AUST

13:00-14:45

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part I)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

15:00-16:45

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part II)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

Reform Movements in Science: Changing Research Cultures for the ‘Better’?
Session Organizers: Sheena BARTSCHERER and Martin REINHART

19:00-20:30

RC23 Business Meeting

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part III)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

Global Debates about Our Technoscientific Futures
Session Organizer: Leandro RAIZER

11:00-12:45

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part IV)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

Research to Practice? Concepts of “Knowledge Transfer” and Their Elective Affinities (Part II)
Session Organizers: Dr. Walter BARTL and Karen SHIRE

13:00-14:45

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part V)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

15:00-16:45

Which Science in the Times of Academic Pollution?
Session Organizer: Paolo PARRA SAIANI