RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology

Program Coordinators:

Renan G LEONEL DA SILVA, University of São Paulo, Brazil, leonnelrg@gmail.com

Leandro RAIZER, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, leandroraizer@gmail.com

Junmin WANG, University of Memphis, USA, jwang4@memphis.edu


Sessions:


Intimate Machines: Women, Desire, and the Infrastructures of AI Companionship In the Global South

(Re)Doing Science with Artificial Intelligence

Collecting, Narrating, Transmitting: Life Stories and the Technologies of the Biographical, from Trace to Algorithm

Contesting Digital Formations In Turbulent Times: From Internet and Social Media to Generative AI

Crisis Method/Ologies: Sociology between Co-Creation and Co-Optation

Cruel Optimism and Glitches of Infrastructural Futures In the Anthropocene

Digital Health Technologies As Sites of Subjectivation: Algorithmic Care, Self-Governance, and the Making of New Health Subjects

Global Experiences of Risk and Agency In Algorithmic Governance

Invisible Infrastructure In Turbulent Times: Political Economy and the Making of Digital Societies

Making Digital–Ecological Transitions Work: National STI Strategies and the Labour of Strategic Translation

Manufacturing (Dis)Trust: Predatory Journals, Paper Mills, and the Crisis of Research Integrity

Measuring and Governing Gender Inequalities In Science: Indicators, Policies, and Knowledge Transfer

Nation-States' S&T Strategies, Governance Challenges, and Legitimacy Construction

Organizational and Algorithmic Rationalities: Decision-Making, Power and Control In Contemporary Organizations

Problematizing Economic Realities: Assemblages, Publics, and Political Action

Public Health Technologies: AI, (Mental) Health, and the Governance Gap

Rethinking Intelligent Society: Technology, Social Order and Transformation

Science, Technology and Equity

Sociotechnical Imaginaries at New Technological Frontiers: Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Practices, and Comparative Contexts

Standards In Turbulent Times: Geopolitics, Labour, and Capture from 5G to AI

Strategies In Asian Knowledge Diplomacy, Past and Present

Technology Induced Social Innovations for Resilience during Social Upheavals

Temporalities In Agriculture and the Environment: Rethinking Technologies, Socionature, and Alternative Futures

The AI-Magicalized Double Movement: Transforming Social Institutions

The Double-Edged Futures: On How Furture Discourses Enable and Constrain Change

The Narrative Construction of Scientific Realities: Exploring How Public, Political & Scientific Discourses Shape Science Reforms

The Sociology of Donor Conception: Perspectives from People with Lived Experience

Vital Technics: Making and Unmaking Life, Matter and Relations