4S '99 Program
Registration will be held in the Brittany Foyer of the Town & Country Resort
and Convention Center on Wednesday evening from 4pm to 7pm, and resume
Thursday October 28 at 7:00am to 6pm. The registration/information area will
be open Friday and Saturday 8am to 6pm. The book and exhibit area
(Sheffield Room) will open at noon on Thursday, and continue through Saturday
at 1:00pm. At 1:00pm Saturday the high bidders in the book auction may pick
up their purchases. Books not picked up by the highest bidders will be
'remaindered' to the next available bidder at 3:30pm and the book/exhibit area
will be closed by 5:30pm Saturday.
- Wednesday, October 27, 1999
- Publications Committee: 1-3pm, Eaton Room
- Council Meeting: 3-6pm, Clarendon Room
- Prize Committee Meetings: 6-9pm
- Registration Open: 4-7pm, Brittany Foyer
- Informal Reception (Cash Bar): 5-7pm, Windsor/Hampton Foyer
- Thursday, October 28, 1999
- Session 0: 8:30-10:00am
- 0.1: Genetics, Heredity, and Biomedicine. Clarendon Room.
- Chair/Discussant: Linda Hogle, Stanford
- Jonathan Landry, RPI, "Bioethical and Political Design of Human Gene
Therapy"
- Yoshio Nukaga, McGill, "Redefining 'Family Bodies' in Clinics,
Laboratories, and Support Groups: Genealogical Knowledge and Practices of
Huntington's Disease."
- Mary Leinhos, Arizona, "'Cultural' Awareness in Genetics and Biotechnology
Policy"
(Theme: Health and Medicine)
- 0.2: Visions of the Family: Method and Therapy in 20th Century
Psychiatry. Garden South.
- Organizer: Ilina Singh, Harvard
- Susan Lanzoni, Harvard, "The Social Roots of Phenomenological
Psychiatry at the Bellevue Clinic"
- Deborah Weinstein, Harvard, "All in the Family: The Construction of the
Normal and the Pathological in Postwar Family Therapy"
- Ilina Singh, Harvard "A Failure To Connect: Healing Families and Brains
with Ritalin" (Read by Joe Dumit, MIT)
(Theme: Health and
Medicine)
- 0.3: Narrative, Boundaries, and Reflexivity. Sportee Room.
- Chair/Discussant: M. Mueller, UCSF
- Mary-Rose Mueller, UCSF, "Revisiting Reflexivity: The Case of
Correspondence Between Social Scientists and Clinical Researchers"
- Linda Hitchin, Lincolnshire and Humberside, "Finding Children in STS:
Latour, Asimov, and Two Sociologies of Doors"
- Henrique Cukierman, Rio de Janeiro, "Trip(s) to Santos"
(Theme: Theory/General)
- 0.4: Science in Transition: Advanced Information Technologies and
University Life. Le Pavillon Room.
- Chair: J. Croissant
- Gary Rhoades, Larry Leslie, and Ron Oaxaca, U Arizona, "Intersecting
Research and Teaching in the Work of Academic Scientists and Engineers"
- Teresa Campbell, and Sheila Slaughter, U Arizona, "Negotiating the
Parameters of Faculty's Entrepreneurial Research"
- Jennifer Croissant, U Arizona, "Technological Change in Universities:
Technocratic and Institutionalist Models"
(Theme: STS & Its Publics)
- 0.5: At the Intersection of Globalization and Locality. Le
Pavillon Lounge.
- Chair/Discussant: Merle Jacob
- Scott Denton, U Arizona, "The Rhetorics of Sustainability and
Biodiversity"
- Alek Ostrey, U British Columbia, "Ecological and Community Sustainability
in the B.C. Sawmill Industry: A Case Study"
- Vivian Christensen, UC Santa Cruz, "The Politics of Environmental
Contamination: A Case Study of Citizen Action in the Salinas Valley"
(Theme: Environment)
- 0.6: Technologies of Cultural Production. Windsor I
- Chair/Discussant: Nadia Caidi, UCLA
- David Morton, "Science or Craft? Scientific vs. Craft Knowledge in the
History of Sound Recording in the Music Industry"
- Albena Yaneva, "'How Objects are Doing Art:'A Case Study of an
Exhibition in the Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris"
- John Monberg, "Silicon Alley Shaping Cultural Technologies"
- Natasha Lettis, "Virtually God: The Intersection of Religion and
Cyberspace"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- Session 1: 10:30am-12:00pm
- 1.1: Differences in Medicine I: Bodies, Technologies,
Identities. Clarendon Room.
- Chair/Discussant: J. Shim, UCSF
- Myriam Winance, ENSMP, "What Kinds of People Does the French Association
of Muscular Dystrophy Produce?"
- Janet Shim, UCSF, "Inequalities in Health Care for Heart
Disease."
(Theme: Health and Medicine)
- 1.2: Perspectives on Psychiatric Practice. Garden South.
- Chair/Discussant: Carol Berkenkotter, Michigan Tech
- Andrew Lakoff, Berkeley, "From Biotype to Genotype: Mapping Behavior in
Buenos Aires."
- Howard Kushner, SDSU, "Disease and National Culture: The (Re)Emergence of
Tourette Syndrome in the U.S. and France."
- Marisa Smith, UCSD, "Patient Confidentiality as Professional Ritual in
Psychiatry."
- Otniel Dror, Getty Research Institute, "Metaphors of Biomedical Disorder:
Control, Knowledge,
and Social Order."
(Theme: Health and Medicine)
- 1.3: Knowledge and Organizations. Le Sommet.
- Organizer: David Hakken
- John Backman, "Networked Organizations and the Dialectics of Knowledge
Production"
- Todd Cherkasky, "Manufacturing Knowledge Value in the 1990s: From
Knowledge Engineering to Knowledge-Based Organizations"
- David Hakken, "Is the Character of Knowledge Changing?:Perspectives
on How Knowledge Networking Is Constructed in Contemporary
Organizations"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 1.4: The Tools that Make Us: The Interstices of Bodies and
Technologies. Windsor I
- Organizer/Discussant: Sarah Jain
- Matt Price, "Cybernetics and Prosthesis: The Boston Arm"
- Sha Xin Wei, Stanford, "Geometric Measure Theory as a Monster
Mash"
- David Serlin, "Imagined Bodies and Early Telemedicine in the
1950s"
- Laura Mamo, UCSF, "Medical Technologies in Use: Insemination Practices and
Queer Subjectivities."
(Theme:Technology Studies)
- 1.5: STS and Science Policy: Constructing Theory for Science Studies,
Science Policy, and Measurement. Le Pavillon.
- Chair/Discussant: Arie Rip
- Michel Callon and Arie Rip, "How to Construct Theory: Linking Science
Studies, Science Policy, and Measurement"
- Y. Fujigaki, NISTP, "A Principle of Knowledge Production for
Science-Policy Interface: Quality Control System through
Validation-Boundary and Citation System, Intervened by Research
Evaluation"
- H. Tomizawa, NISTP, "Theory for Science Indicators:
Meso-Data to Bridge the Data and Interpretation Levels"
(Theme: STS
& Its Publics)
- 1.6: Cooperation and Creativity. Le Pavillon Lounge.
- Chair/Discussant: Edward J. Hackett, ASU
- J. Croissant, Arizona, W. Patrick McCray, GWU "Studying Up, Studying
Us, Studying Them: Complexity and Ethics in the Study of Recent Science
and Technology"
- A. Nagata, P. Reinmoeller, Y. Inoeu, Japan Ad.
Inst. S&T, "The Tacit Dimension of Organizational Coordination: Japanese Noh
Theatre as Protoype for Professional Knowledge Teams"
- Elke Duncker, Middlesex, "Symbolic Communication in Multidisciplinary
Collaborations"
(Theme: Theory/General)
- 1.7: Postcoloniality and Technoscience. Sportee.
- Organizer: Gabrielle Hecht, Michigan
- Chair/Discussant: Vicente Rafael, UCSD (unconfirmed)
- Gabrielle Hecht, Michigan, "Technoscience and Postcolonial
Subjectivies: Uranium Miners in Gabon and Madagascar"
- Itty Abraham, SSRC, "Landscape and Postcolonial Science"
- Peter Redfield, Johns Hopkins, "The Half-Life of Empire in Outer
Space"
- Claudia Casteneda, Lancaster, "Toward a Postcolonial Science
Studies"
(Theme: Theory/General)
- 1.8: On Kilowatts, Carbons, and Cars: The Politics of Energy and
Environment I. Eaton
- Organizers: Jane Summerton, Linkoping, and Paul Naesje, NTNU
- Chair: Jane Summerton, Linkoping
- Discussant: Andy Jamison, Aalborg U
- Katy Janda, UC Davis, "Who Has the Power to Save Energy? A Case Study of
Architects, Engineers, Owners, and Third-Party Advocates"
- Marianne Ryghaug, NTNU, "Architects and Energy Efficiency: A Study of the
Role of Energy Efficiency and Environmentalism in Architectural
Publications
- Trine Pipi Kraemer, Aalborg, "The Changing Context of Industrial
Environmental Improvements in Poland"
(Theme: Environment)
- 1.9: Roundtable: Design Cultures and Education. Fairfield.
- Organizer: J. Schumacher
- Dean Nieusma, "Design Classroom as Social Context"
- Jesse Tatum, "Reaching into Possibility"
- Ned Woodhouse, RPI
(Theme: Technology Studies/Education)
- 1.10: Persons, Bodies, and Objects in Virtual Space. Windsor II
- Organizer: S. Damarin
- Suzanne Damarin, "Virtual Reality: Being and Learing in 3d Worlds"
- Ted Kafala, "The Construction of Knowledge in 3D Object Cyberspace"
- Hsi-Chi Huang, "Re/De/Construction of Self in Cyberspace"
- Laura Brendon, "Seekers in Cyberspace"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- Interest Group Lunch Meetings: 12:00-1:30pm. Meet at Hampton Room.
- Student Business Meeting: Meet at Hampton Room.
- The Novartis/Berkeley Agreement: Controversy in
Corporate/University Partnerships and a Research Opportunity for
4S: Meet at Eaton Room. Jean Lave, Berkeley, will
facilitate discussion.
- Tokai critical accident and Japanese nuclear policy. Hideto Nakajima will
facilitate discussion. Room TBA.
- Session 2:1:30-3:30pm
- 2.1: Differences in Medicine II: Gender/Technology. Clarendon.
- Chair/Discussant: Deborah Blizzard, RPI
- Jennifer Fishman and Laura Mamo (UCSF), "'Lifestyle Drugs' and
Constructions of Users: The Case of Viagra."
- Susan Markens, Carole Browner, and H. Mabel Preloran (UCLA), "'It Was
Pretty Much My Decision....But of Course He Has a Say': Latino Men and
Amniocentesis Decisions"
- Deborah Blizzard, RPI, "Coffins, Cremations, and Culture: Constructing
Identity Through the Loss and Disposal of Object/Subjects in Multiple
Gestations"
(Theme: Health and Medicine)
- 2.2: Patient Care in Transition: Projects and Contradictions.
Windsor I
- Organizer/Chair: Yrjo Engestrom, UCSD & Academy of Finland
- Discussant: Aaron Cicourel
- Judith Gregory, Oslo, "Changing Patient Care: Creating an Electronic
Health Record."
- Carol Berkenkotter, MTU, "The Psychiatric Patient Record as Tool
for Constructing Patient Identity in the 19th and 20th Centuries."
- Toomas Timpka, Linkoping, "The Patient and the Primary Care Team:
Small-Scale Critical Theory."
- Yrjo Engestrom (UCSD, Academy of Finland) and Ritva Engestrom (Helsinki),
"Talking Out Change Among Providers of Medical Care for Children,"
(Theme: Health and Medicine)
- 2.3: Theorizing Technologies. Sportee.
- Chair/Discussant: K. Y. Yip, SUNY Stony Brook
- F. W. Geels, "Sociotechnical Scenarios for Reflexive Technology
Politics"
- Loet Leydesdorff, "Complexity and Technology"
- Ken Yee Yip, SUNY Stony Brook, "Human/Technical Transformation and
Political Action"
- Adrian Mackenzie, University of Sydney, "From 0.743 Oscillations/Second to
9,192,631,770Mhz: Understanding Technology as Event"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 2.4: Is the Virtual Society for Real? I: Social In/Exclusion.
Garden South.
- Organizers: S. Woolgar and N. Wakeford.
- Dave Byrne, "Dynamic Divisions in the Virtual Society: Rangers, Drudges,
and Outsiders"
- Brian McGrail, "Watching This Space: Questions of Place and Self-Respect
in Electronic Surveillance Networks"
- Sally Wyatt, "They Came, They Surfed, They Went Back to the Beach: Why
Some People Stop Using the Internet"
- Sonia Liff, Warwick, and Fred Steward, Aston, "Cybercafes and
Telecottages: Increasing Public Access to Computers and the Internet"
- David Oswell, "The Dark Side of Cyberspace: Policy, Internet Content,
Regulation, and Childhood"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 2.5: Science/Society Interface I: Negotiations Among
Stakeholders. Fairfield.
- Chair: H. Nakajima
- R. P. Hagendijk and P. Wouters, Amsterdam, "Biosafety: Public
Understanding of Science, Risk, and Political Decision Making"
- H. Ayano, NISTP, "Consensu Conference on Gene Therapy in Japan, and
Understanding Advanced Technologies"
- H. Hirakawa, ICU/Institute for Policy Science, "A Failure of
Co-Production of Science, Policy, and Nature: A Case of Earthquake
Prediction Research in Japan"
- T. Montini, M. Schotland, and L. Bero, UCSF, "Attacking the
Evidence Base: The Tobacco Industry and Environmental Tobacco Smoke"
- Discussant: Steve Fuller, Warwick
(Theme: STS& Its Publics)
- 2.6: Roundtable: Doing Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and
Medicine. Le Pavillon.
- Organizer/Chair: Roddey Reid, UCSD
- Karen Barad, Pomona
- Michael Fischer, MIT
- Sharon Traweek, UCLA
- Jackie Orr, Syracuse
(Theme: Theory/General)
- 2.7: The Politics of Technoscience in Higher Education: Structures,
Identities, and Strategies. Le Pavillon Lounge.
- Chair/Discussant: Shirley Gorenstein
- Martina Merz, U. Bern, "Integration Mechanisms, Gender, and
Scientific Work: A Comparative Approach"
- Karen L. Tonso, Wayne State University, "Designing
Engineers: A Campus
System of Practice, Identity, and Gender."
(Theme: Education)
- 2.8: Mapping (and) Science. Le Sommet.
- Chair/Discussant: Francis Harvey, U Kentucky.
- R. Jonasse, UCSD, "Constructing the Manageable Environment: Mediating
Social Relations through the Natural World"
- R. Rogers and N. Marres, Amsterdam, "Landscaping Climate Change: Mapping
Science & Technology Debates on the WWW"
- K. Katsura, Surugadai, "Visualizing a Cluster of Citation Networks by
Eminente "Mad Cow Disease" Scientists"
- M. Shirabe, Shinshu, "Citation as Investment in Pyramid
Schemes"
(Theme: STS & Its Publics)
- 2.9: On Kilowatts, Carbon, and Cars: The Politics of Energy and
Environment II. Eaton.
- Organizers: Jane Summerton, Linkoping, and Paul Naesje, NTNU
- Chair: Paul Naesje, NTNU
- Discussant: Hans Glimell, Gothenburg U
- Pamela Franklin, UC Berkeley, "Debating Science, Constructing Policy:
Reformulating Gasoline in the U.S."
- Paul Naesje, NTNU, "Constructing Markets: Energy Consumers, Morals, and
Economics"
- Jane Summerton, Linkoping, "Conflicting Risks: The Debate over
Diesel Cars
- Mark Brown, Rutgers, "Designing Technology and Citizenship in the
California Electric Vehicle Program"
(Theme: Environment)
- Session 3: 4:00-6:00pm
- 3.1: Author-Meets-Critics: Steven Epstein, author of
Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge.
Garden North.
- Organizer: Linda Layne
- David Hess, RPI
- Adele Clarke, UCSF
- Michael Gorman, U Va
(Theme: Health and Medicine/STS & Its Publics)
- 3.2: Co-Construction of Technologies and Users I. Le Pavillon
- Organizer: N. Oudshoorn
- Helen Josok Gansmo, "Teenage Girls' Construction of Comprehension of
Computers and Computer Users"
- Christine Lindsay, "Constructing the TRS-80 User"
- Els Rommes, "Users as Designers of ICT: Gender and the Design of a Digital
City"
- Hege Nordli, "Female Hackers....Are They For Real?"
- de la Bruheze, "New Products and New Users: The Construction of
Consumption and Consumers"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 3.3: Disciplines and Instruments I. Clarendon
- Chair/Discussant: R. Swieringa, Akron
- Francois Melard, UCL & ENSMP, "The Country Laboratory in the Sugar
Industry"
- Park Doing, Cornell, "Somebody Do Something: Orchestrating Identities and
Taking Action in the Search for the Lost (Synchrotron) Light"
- Juha Tuunainen, Helsinki, "Emergence and Development of a Local Research
Programme, 1989-1993"
- Robert C. Swieringa, Akron, "The Organization of Activity via
Discursive Temporal Queuing"
(Theme: Theory/General)
- 3.4: Technology and Pedagogy: Space and Practice. Sportee.
- Organizer/Chair: Scott B. Waltz, SUNY Buffalo
- Discussant: Hank Bromley, SUNY Buffalo
- Scott B. Waltz, SUNY Buffalo, "Architectural Resistance: The Distance
Learning Classroom and Pedagogy."
- Stephen Gance, UW-Madison, "Questioning the Technology/Society Split:
An Exploration of the Use of Discourse Theory to Problematize Pedagogy
with Education Technology."
- William Bradley, Ryokoku U/U of A, "Configuring the Purposes of
English Language Education in Japan"
- Laura Brewer, ASU, "Internet Technologies in Higher Education:
Examining Administrative and Faculty Decisions."
(Theme:
Education)
- 3.5: Is the Virtual Society for Real? 2: Life Online. Garden
South.
- Organizers: S. Woolgar and N. Wakeford
- Christine Hine, "Spatiality and the Internet"
- Trond Undheim, "Visions of Virtual Society: From Digital Nomads to New
Social Spaces"
- Nina Wakeford, Steve Woolgar, and Christine Hine, "Locked in
Cyberspace"
- T. L. Taylor, Brandeis, "The Wizard Behind the Curtain: Software Designers
and Virtual Worlds"
- Phillipe Hert, U Nancy, "Epistemological Discussions Over the
Internet"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 3.6: Technological Identities and Imaginaries. Le Sommet.
- Chair/Discussant: Kathryn Henderson, Texas A&M
- Benjamin Sims, "Peer Review and Professional Autonomy in Civil
Engineering"
- Eammon Molloy, "Management Technologies"
- Farkas and Levinger, "The Research Institute for the Study of the 15th
Street CrossWalk: Report #3."
- Brooks and Engestrom, "Tools for Envisioning the Future"
- Arie Rip, "Dilemmas and Paradoxes in Technology Dynamics"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 3.7: Remaking Life and World: The Biological Sciences and Global
Politics. Windsor I.
- Organizer/Chair: Clark A. Miller, Harvard
- Discussant: Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard
- Jennifer Reardon, Cornell, "Global Governments for Global Genes? The Case
of the Human Genome Diversity Project"
- Marybeth Long, MIT, "Disciplinary Cultures and the Transformation of
International Desertification Politics"
- Clark A. Miller, Harvard/Iowa State, "Alternative Strategies for
Globalizing Science? A Comparative Study of Expert Advisory Institutions for
Climate Change and Biodiversity"
(Theme: STS and Its Publics)
- Friday, October 29, 1999
- Session 4: 8:30-10:00am
- 4.1: Medical Technologies of Sex: Feminist Research and
Analyses. Windsor I.
- Session Organizer/Chair/Discussant: Martha McCaughey, Virginia
Tech
- Alice Domurat Dreger, "Love with a Ruler: Phallometers and the
Surgical 'Treatment' of Intersexuality."
- Bernice Hausman, Virginia Tech, "Cosmetic Surgery and the Emergence of
Transsexualism in the 20th Century."
- Rebecca Wepsic Ancheta, UCSF, "Discourse of Rules: Women's Experiences
with Cosmetic Surgery."
(Theme: Health and Medicine)
- 4.2: The Sociology and Politics of Databases. Le Sommet.
- Oranizers: G. Bowker UIUC, and P. Edwards, U Michigan
- Discussant: Fernando Elichirigoity, Long Island U
- Joseph Goguen, "The Ethics of Databases"
- Geof Bowker, UIUC, "The Game of the Name: Data Structures and
Multidiscipinary Communication in Biodiversity"
- Paul Edwards, U Michigan"Data Wars: Reconciling (or Not) Disparate Data
Sources in Global Climate Science"
(Theme: Technology
Studies)
- 4.3: Co-Construction of Technologies and Users II. Le Pavillon.
- Organizer: N. Oudshoorn
- Ron Kline, "Reinventing Rural Life in the US: Users as Agents of
Sociotechnical Change"
- Nelly Oudshoorn, et al. "Gender, Diversity, and Agency in Script
Analysis of Technology"
- Dale Rose and Stuart Blume, "First Things First: Who are Users of
(Medical) Technologies: The Case of Vaccines"
- Bijsterveld and Hillekens, "Design and Everyday Obstacles in the Domestic
Lives of Elderly Women"
(Theme:Technology Studies)
- 4.4: Beyond the Science Wars I: Partial Houses on Common Ground:
Sociologists and Philosophers Move Beyond the Science Wars. Garden North.
- Organizer/Chair: W. J. McKinney
- Discussant: Jay Labinger, Cal Tech
- Trevor Pinch, Cornell, "The Sociology of Scientific Controversy: What
is Normal and How to Be Normative"
- W. J. McKinney, Southeast Missouri State U, "Socio-Technological
Construction and Philosophy's Essential Normativity"
- Thomas Gieryn, Indian U, "Who Decides the Science of Meaning"
- S. Kellert, Hamline, "Who Decides the Meaning of Science"
(Theme: STS & Its Publics)
- 4.5: Science/Society Interface II: Activism and Access.
Fairfield.
- Chair/Discussant: B. E. Goldstein
- L. Lievrouw, UCLA, "Knowledge Networks and Non-Disclosure in Clinical
Research: The Case of Flock Worker's Lung"
- L. Braun, Brown, "Breast Cancer Activism: Challenging The Cultural
Authority of Scientists"
- N. Farkas, RPI/Amsterdam, "Dutch Science Shops: Experts at
Distributing Expertise"
- B. E. Goldstein, UC Berkeley, "Scientific Boundary Work and Negotiation
of Habitat Conservation Plans Using Consensus Processes: An Unbearable
Tension?
(Theme: STS & Its Publics)
- 4.6: Natural Resources and the State. Windsor II.
- Chair/Discussant: S. Ravi Rajan, UCSC
- Wim Ravesteijn, Delft, "Dutch Engineering Overseas: Irrigation
Development in Java betwen 1832 and 1942"
- Roopali Phadke, UCSC, "Cultivating Environmental Accountability:
Learning From the People's Science Movements in India"
(Theme: Environment)
- 4.7: Data and Objects. Eaton.
- Chair/Discussant: Martina Merz, U Bern/CERN
- Stephen Norton, Maryland, "The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer,
Hierarchies of Modeled Data, and the Epistemic Irrelevance of the
'Raw/Reduced Data' Distinction"
- Kalpana Shankar, UCLA, "New Methods for Exploring Scientific Practice
Through Analyses of Record Keeping"
- Jean-Francois Blanchette, RPI, Deborah Johnson, GA Tech, "Data Retention
and the Right to be Forgotten, Or, Record Keeping with a French
Attitude"
(
Theme: Theory/General)
- Session 4.8: University-Industry Research Relations: Effects on
Faculty Work and Graduate Education. Sportee.
- Chair: Sheila Slaughter, Arizona
- Cynthia Archerd and Shauneen Willett, Arizona, "Graduate Students and the
Collective Research Experience: Qualitative Research from a Large Data
Set"
- Teresa Campbell and Dawn De Toro, Arizona, "Sustaining Research Groups and
Industrial Partners: Strategies of Faculty vis a vis Administrators"
- Cynthia Archerd, Sheila Slaughter, Gerald Szymanski, and Shauneen
Willett, Arizona, "Boundaries and Quandaries: How Scientists and Engineers
with Corporate Sponsors Demarcate the Line Between Academe and Industry"
- Margaret Holleman, Edward Morgan, and Sheila Slaughter, Arizona, "Graduate
Students as Tokens of Exchange: The Traffic In Studens in Academic-Industry
Relations"
(Theme: STS and Its Publics)
- 4.9: Is the Virtual Society for Real? III: Virtual Methodologies.
Garden South.
- Organizers: Wakeford/Woolgar
- Anna Livia, "The Minitel: A Medium in Search of a Methodology"
- Terry Hemmings, "Virtual Ethnography: Problems and
Promises"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- Session 5: 10:30am-12:00pm
- 5.1: Cyberanatomies and Digital Media: The Visible Human
Project and Beyond. Windsor I.
- Chair/Organizer: Catherine Waldby, Murdoch, Australia; Lisa
Cartwright, U Rochester
- Catherine Waldby, Murdoch, Australia, "Digital Archive, Virtual Norms:
The Visible Human Project as a Technology of Anatomical Inscription."
- Christina Lammer, Vienna, "Digital Execution: The Creation of Skin in the
Visible Human and Voxel Man Projects"
- Adele Clarke, UCSF, and Lisa Jean Moore, CUNY Staten Island, "The Traffic
in Cyberanatomies: Sex/Gender/Sexuality in Local and Global Formations"
(Theme: Health and Medicine)
- 5.2: Locality and Globality. Windsor II.
- Chair/Discussant: Andrew Jamison, Aalborg
- S. Myklebust, "Technology and Science in the Norwegian
Report on Power Relations"
- R. Varma, UNM, "Whither People's Science Movements?"
- Andrew Jamison, Aalborg, "Between the Local and the Global: Public
Participation and Sustainable Development"
(Theme: STS & Its Publics)
- 5.3: Where IT's At: Producing Spaces and Communities. Garden
South.
- Organizers: Fujimura, Stanford, and Fortun & Fortun, RPI
- Torin Monahan, RPI, "Power and Politics in Technological Transformation
of Educational Space(s)"
- Heinrich Schwarz, "The Discourse of Virtuality in the Context of Office
Work"
- Jason Patton, RPI, "Smart Cars, Smart Pedestrians: Tantrum Theorizing
Intelligent Transportation Systems in the Age of IT"
- Susan Newman, XEROX PARC, "That Obscure Object of Design: Object-Centered
Sociality and The Design of Mediation in Software Engineering"
(Theme:Technology Studies)
- 5.4: Beyond Science Wars II: From "Boundary Work" to "Bridge
Work". Garden North.
- Organizer: Y. Fujigaki
- Chair/Discussant: S. Jasanoff
- Y. Fujigaki, NISTEP, Validation Boundary: Concept for "Bridge Work"
for the Public Beyond Cross-Boundary Conflicts"
- T. T. S. Pereira, Sussex, "The Fluid Boundaries of Collaborating Research
Groups: Exchange and Extension"
- K. Matsubara, Tokiwa, "How Do Scientists Define "Scientific"?
Diversity and Disunity of Sciences and Efforts for "Bridge Work' in
Japan"
- L. D. Jambhale, Cleveland State, "Group Productivity: Case Study
of A University Department"
(Theme: STS & Its Publics)
- 5.5: Discipline and Negotiation: Qualitative Studies of Professional
Acculturation and Practice. Sportee.
- Michelle K. McGinn, Simon Fraser U, "The Practice of Statistical
Consulting and What Clients and Consultants Learn About Statistical
Analyses During Consulting Sessions"
- Maj-Britt Juhl Poulsen, Roskilde U, "Learning How to Play the Game"
- Wolff-Michael Roth and G. Michael Bowen, U Victoria, "Of Disciplined
Bodies and Disciplined
Minds"
- Jan Clarke, Augustana, "Women's Skills: Skill as a Complex Gendered
Concept"
(Theme: Education)
- 5.6: Inscribing Nature: Discovery, Disclosure, and Reaction.
Eaton
- Chair/Dicussant: Patricia Taylor, U Wyoming.
- Stuart Lee and Wolff-Michael Roth, U Victoria "The Disclosing of a
Watershed: The Processes of Inscription"
- Joshua Dunsby, UC San Diego, "Nuisances and Health Hazards: The Early Days
of Smog in Southern California"
- Thomas Beamish, UC Santa Barbara, "Incrementalism and Habituation: The
Social Anatomy of a Chronic Pollution Event."
- Astrid J. Scholz, UC Berkeley, "Discovering Nature: Biodiversity in the
Drug Discovery Process"
(Theme: Environment)
- 5.7: Feminist Science Studies. Le Pavillon.
- Chair/Organizer: Banu Subramaniam, Arizona
- Maralee Mayberry, Nevada
- Lisa Weasel, UC Irvine
- Mary Wyer, North Carolina State
- Joan Rothschild, CUNY, "Making Connections: Design, Technology, and
Feminist Practice."
(Theme:Theory/General)
- 5.8: Co-Construction of Technologies and Users III. Le Pavillon
Lounge.
- Organizer: N. Oudshoorn
- Shobita Parthasarathy, "Gendered Genes: The Politics of Breast Cancer
Genetics in the United States and Great Britain."
- Sotiria Theoharis, "Health Ethics in Breast Care: What are the Conceptual
Relations Between Breast Exams and Mammograms."
- Ellen Van Oost, "The Mutual Shaping of Gender and Shavers."
- Ann Rudinow Saetnan, "Re-Constructing Hope and Responsibility -- Fetal
Diagnostics and the Experience of Pregnancy."
(Theme: Health and Medicine)
- 5.9: Author Meets Critics: Andrew Feenberg, Questioning
Technology. Le Sommet.
- Organizer: Deborah G. Johnson, GA Tech (Society for Philosophy
and Technology)
- Chair: Vivian Weil, IIT
- David J. Stump, UCSF
- Fernando Elichirgoity, Long Island U.
- Andrew Feenberg, SDSU
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- Interest Group Lunch Meetings: 12:00-1:30pm
- Session 6: 1:30-3:30pm
- 6.1: The Practices and Politics of Breast Cancer. Windsor I.
- Chair/Discussant: Peg Wooddell, RPI/UNC-Chapel Hill.
- Susan Halebsky, UCSD, "The Problem with Public Problems: Comparative
Perspectives on Breast Cancer."
- Jennifer Ruth Fosket, UCSF, "Pharmaceutical Technology and Risky Hormonal
Bodies: Tamoxifen as Breast Cancer Prevention."
- Louise Bouchard, Universite du Quebec a' Montreal; C. Julian-Reynier,
INSERM, France; I. Blancquaert, Quebec; F. Eisinger, INSERM, France; G.
Evans, St. Mary Hospital, Manchester, UK; W. Foulkes, McGill; H. Sobol,
INSERM, France; "Emergence of a New Strategy for Familial Breast Cancer
Screening: DNA Predictive Tests."
- Robert Dalpe, Louise Bouchard, Anne-Julie Houle, "The Race for Breast
Cancer Genes: The Public and the Private in Science."
(Theme: Health and Medicine)
This session is dedicated to the memory of Merriley Borell
- 6.2: Techologies at Work. Le Sommet.
- Chair/Discussant: Jan Clarke, Augustana
- Jarita Holbrook, "Technology and Navigation Practices in Fiji,
Tunisia, and the U.S"
- Naoki Ueno, "Technology of Making the Social Organization of Work and the
Mass Producation of Machine Parts Visible"
- Greg Downey, "Running Somewhere Between Men and Women:Gender in the
Construction of the Telegraph Messenger Boy"
- Lars Fuglsang, "New Technology and Older People: The Case of Care for
the Elderly in Denmark"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 6.3: Reflections on Teaching Gender and Technology. Le Sommet.
- Organizer: A. Rudinow Saetnan
- Nelly Oudshoorn, "On Gender and Things: Reflections on an Exhibition on
Gendered Artifacts"
- Ann Rudinow Saetnan, 'The Gender of Things II: Public Response in
Trondheim"
- Hank Bromley, "Teaching Gender and Technology: A Sociological
Approach"
(Theme: Technology Studies/Education)
- 6.4: Author-Meets Critics: Steve Fuller, author of The
Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society.
Garden North.
- David Guston, Rutgers
- James Collier, U. Mass Amherst
- William Keith, Oregon State
- Hans Radder, Amsterdam
(Theme: STS & Its Publics)
- 6.5: Beyond Signs, Traces, and Inscriptions. Eaton.
- Chair/Organizer: Eric Francoeur, Max Planck Institute fur
Wissenschaftsgeschichte
- Sergio Sismondo, Queens, "Representation Unified and Disunified"
- Wolf-Michael Roth, Victoria, "The Body in Scientific Discourse"
- David Kaiser, Harvard, "When Texts Become Tools,: Feynman Diagrams as
Practices in Midcentury Particle Physics"
- Eric Francoeur, MPIF, "Knowledge in Three-Dimensions, or
How to Consider Objects as Representations: The Case of
Physical Molecular Models"
(Theme: Theory/General)
- 6.6: Technoscientific Curriculum and Pedagogy: History and
Practice. Sportee.
- Chair: M. Weinstein, Macalester
- David N. Boote and Michelle K. McGinn, Simon Fraser U., "The
Sociality of In-School Mathematical Problem Solving: A Phenomenological
Study"
- Steven J. Fifield, U. Delaware, "Meanings and Practices of Science in
Undergraduate Lectures: What Two Biologists Think they are Doing"
- Matthew Weinstein, Macalester College, "From God's Temple to Risky
Waters: Conceptions of Nature and Responsibility in Science Education"
(Theme: Education)
- 6.7: STS Outdoors: In Field and Forest. Windsor II.
- Organizer/Chair: Christopher Henke, UCSD
- Thomas Gieryn, Indiana University, "Model Farms as Truth-Spots"
- Christopher Henke, UCSD, "Mobilizing Science: Labor and Sugar Beet
Production in WWII-Era California"
- Susan Kaiser, UCSD, "Strategic Ambiguities, Messy Practices: The
Agricultural Science-Extension Interface"
- Chandra Mukerji, UCSD, "Eyes in the Forest: The Mapmaking of Louis de
Froidour."
- Wesley Shrum, "Are Scientists in Developing Countries Isolated?
(Theme: Environment)
- 6.8: Cultivating the Virtual. Garden South.
- Chair/Organizer: Knut Sorensen
- Knut Sorensen, "Programmers' Gates of Hell or Heaven: Microserfs or
Virtual Sociologists"
- Williams, et al., "The Virtual Management of Change?"
- Berit Moltu, "When Technology Gets Virtual: Translations of Business
Process Re-Engineering"
- Birgit Jaeger, "Digital Cities in Europe"
- Rossel, "How to Assess the Real/Virtual Ratio of IT-Driven Networked
Business Processes"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 6.9: Standards, Measures, and Translations. Le Pavillon Lounge.
- Chair: Kathryn Henderson, Texas A&M
- J. Deuten, "Standardization as Socio-Cognitive and Technopolitical
Process"
- Massimo Mazzotti, Dibner Institute, MIT, "The Measure of Power: The
Controversy Over Measurement Systems in Southern Italy"
- Rein de Wilde, "Standardization: The Silent Way of Building the Network
Society"
- Patrick Feng, "Global Standards, Local Cultures: The Politics of
Translating 'Technical' Standards Across Diverse Contexts"
- Kathryn Henderson, Texas A&M, "The Battle Over Building Codes: Straw Bale
Building Moves Towards the Mainstream"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- Session 7: Presidential Plenary: The Participation of Lay People in
the Production and Dissemination of Knowledge. Garden North/South.
3:45-5:45pm
- Organizer/Chair: M. Callon
- Steve Epstein, "New Social Movements and Trends in the Politics of
Knowledge Production."
- Brian Wynne, "Expert Construction of Lay Epistemics"
- Donna Haraway, "For the Love of a Good Dog: Webs of Action in the
World of Dog Genetics"
- Michel Callon, "How Concerned Groups Might be Affected by
Their Participation in Scientific Arenas: Some Lessons from the
Study of an Association of Patients."
- 4S Open Business Meeting. 6:00-7:00pm. Garden North/South.
- Reception, 6:00-7:30pm.
Sponsored in part by Xerox South
Atlas Foyer. - Banquet. 7:30-10:30pm(Banquet seating will begin
at 7:00pm). California Room.
- Saturday, October 30, 1999
- Social Studies of Science Editorial Team Breakfast,
7:00-8:30am. Organizer: D. Edge, Edinburgh
- Session 8: 8:30-10:00am
- 8.1: Social Shaping of Technology in Medicine. Windsor I.
- Chair: Linda Hogle, Stanford
- Benjamin Scott, U of Arizona, "What's In a Number?: Perspectives on
Prostate Cancer Testing in the U.S."
- Jennifer Miller, UC Berkeley, "Heart Time: Cultural Practices in Advanced
Cardiac Care
Settings,"
- Raphael Sassower, "Technoscientific Medicine: A Postmodern
Critique."
(Theme: Health and Medicine)
- 8.2: Co-Construction of Technologies and Users IV. Garden South.
- Organizer: Oudshoorn
- Anne Sofie Laegran, Trondheim, "Escape Vehicles? Internet versus the Volvo
Amazon in a Local/Global Intersection of Sociotechnical Cultures"
- Trevor Pinch, "Giving Birth to New Users" How the Mini-Moog was Sold to
Rock and Roll"
- Jaap Jelsma, U Twente, "Green Households: Should the User be Disciplined
by Technology?"
- Onno de Wit, "Women and Children First? Dutch Telephone Companies and the
"Abuse" of the Telephone in the 1930s"
(Theme:Technology Studies)
- 8.3: Where IT's At: Producing Identifications. Le Pavillon.
- Organizers: Fujimura, Fortun & Fortun
- J-F. Blanchette, RPI, "Designing the Electronic Contractual Ritual: The
Case of Digital Signatures"
- A. Christian Fricke, RPI, "Information, Technology, and Noice: Cultures of
Design in SETI, The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence"
- Irma van der Ploeg, Erasmus U, "The Illegal Body: The Politics of
Biometric Identity"
- Michael Fortun, RPI, "Global S/Warming in Iceland: Genes, Fish,
Journalists, Whales, Medical Records, and the Contested Identity of a
Nation"
(Theme:Technology Studies)
- 8.4: Consensus and Consensus Formation in Science and Medicine I.
Windsor II.
- Organizers: D. Guston, Rutgers, and S. Kelly, Louisville
- Discussant: Joan Leach, Imperial College, London
- S. Kelly, Louisville, "Majority Rules: Shifts Away from Consensus
Ethics in Bioethics Policy Advice"
- C. Berkenkotter, "Consensus Formation or Counter-Revolution in
Psychiatry: The Role of the Professional Journals in the Rise of a
"Scientific" Classification System"
- Tadashi Kobayashi, Nanzan U, "Who Should Learn More? Experts or Public?
The Report of the First Consensus Conference in Japan"
(Theme: STS & Its Publics)
- 8.5: Environmental Ethics, Environmental Justice, and
Ecofeminism. Sportee.
- Chair/Discussant: Merle Jacob
- Barbara Allen, RPI and U of SW Louisiana, "The Danger of Identity
Politics in the Environmental Justice Movement,"
- Michael Fischer,"Environmentalism and Postcolonialism"
(Theme: Environment)
- 8.6: Socioepistemic Orders. Towne.
- Chair/Organizer: Patrick Carroll-Burke, UC Davis
- Patrick Carroll-Burke, UC Davis, "Whatish my Nation?: The 'New
English' and the 'New Science' in Early Colonial Ireland"
- Bart Simon, Queen's
- Kathleen Whalen, London, "'For the Publick and General
Profit of the Commonwealth': The Re-Orientation of Social
Identity in Seventeenth-Century England"
(Theme: Theory/General)
- 8.7: STS and Science Policy I: Principles for Funding.
Fairfield.
- Chair/Discussant: R. Hagendijk
- B. D. Grandjean and P. A. Taylor, University of Wyoming, "Funding and
'Edge Effects' in a Scientific Organization"
- J. D. Holmfeld, Fredericksburg, VA, "Changes in the Institutional
Base for Scientific Research in the U.S., 1946-1996"
- H. Douglas, U Puget Sound, "Origins of the "Science as Neutral and
Useful" Ideology"
- F. N. Laird, U Denver, "Contested Knowledge and Institutional
Learning: Applications to Renewable Energy Policy"
(Theme: STS & Its Publics)
- 8.8: Disciplines and Instruments II. Clarendon.
- Chair/Discussant: C. Mody, Cornell.
- W. Patrick McCray, Arizona/GWU, "'We Build 'em Bigger!': Promotion
and Publicity in Contemporary Science and Technology"
- Constance Perin, MIT, "Language Ideologies, Common Sense, and
Technological Hermeneutics in Nuclear Power Plant Operations"
- Cyrus Mody, Cornell, "Cleanliness is next to....? Purity and Epistemology
among Materials Scientists"
(Theme: Theory/General)
- 8.9: Science and Media I. Eaton.
- Organizer: Sabine Maasen, Max Planck Institute
- I. Hellesten, Tampere, 'Promising a Better Future: Advertisements of
Biotechnology Companies Hoechst and Novartis"
- P. Hetland, Oslo, "The Mediation of Expertise: Internet Meets the
Public"
(Theme: STS & Its Publics)
- 8.10: Knowledge Economy I. Esquire.
- Chair/Discussant: J. Atkinson-Grosjean, U British Columbia
- J. Atkinson-Grosjean and Donald Fisher, U British Columbia, "Brokers
on the Boundary: Academy-Industry Liaisons in Canadian Universities"
- P. Reinmoeller, Japan Adv. Inst. of S&T, "Emergence of Japanese
Knowledge Districts" A SWOT Analysis of Japanese Think Tanks' Knowledge
Capabilities"
(Theme: STS& Its Publics
- Session 9: 10:30am-12:00pm
- 9.1: Social Shaping of Technology: Medicine and Management.
Windsor I.
- Chair/Discussant: S. Cozzens, GA Tech.
- Alfred Mauet, RPI; Susan Cozzens, GA Tech, and Patricia Wheeler, SUNY
Empire State College, "The Social Shaping of Medical Technology: The Case of
Diagnostic Imaging."
- Els Goorman, Erasmus, "Information Technology and Organizational Change:
Anticipated and Unanticipated Effects."
- von Raesfeld and van Rossum, "Emerging New Technologies in
Telecommunications and Strategic Behavior of Firms"
- Mary Ellen Mogee, Mogee Research & Analysis Associates, "Mapping
Technology with Patent Databases."
(Theme: Technology Studies/Health and Medicine)
- 9.2: Knowledge Economy II. Esquire.
- Chair: B. Bozeman, GA Tech
- Marja Hayrinen-Alestalo, U Helsinki, "The Responsiveness of Social
Sciences to Market Demands"
- J. Atkinson-Grosjean, U British Columbia, "Excellence, Networks, and
the Pursuit of Profit: Academic Science and Public Policy in Canada"
- J. D. Rogers & B. Bozeman, GA Tech, "Tensions Between Science
and Commerce: Organization, Priorities, and Rewards in
Interdisciplinary R&D Teams"
(Theme: STS & Its Publics)
- 9.3: Where IT's AT: Producing Imaginaries. Garden South.
- Organizers: Fujimura, Fortun & Fortun
- Lucy Suchman, XEROX PARC, "Organizing Alignment"
- Joan Fujimura, Stanford, "RoboCup"
- Mizuko Ito, "Networked Productions of Community"
- Kim Fortun, "Interoperability: Information Technology and the
Environment"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 9.4: Technologies of "Experience": Eaton.
- Organizer/Chair: M. Murphy
- Michelle Murphy, "Self-Speculation and the Production of
'Experience' as a Critique of Biomedicine"
- Deborah Grayson, "My Authentic Negro Experience: Reading the
Sillouette Romances of Kara Walker"
- Natalie Jeremijenko, Yale, "One Tree: Experiencing Environmental/Genetic
Interaction in Public"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 9.5: Consensus and Consensus Formation in Science and Medicine
II. Windsor II.
- Organizers: D. Guston, Rutgers, and S. Kelly, Louisville
- Chair/Discussant: S. Fuller, Warwick
- D. Guston, Rutgers, "Consensus-Formation in Regulatory Science:
Saccharin and the Ninth Report on Carcinogens"
- R. Barke, GA Tech, "Scientists and the Politics of Consensus: Organizing
the Relevant Practioners"
- K. Moore, K. Elaine Bailey, Patricia Haigh, Barnard, 'The
Secularization of Science?"
(Theme: STS & Its Publics)
- 9.6: Obligation, Intervention, STS and Theory. Towne.
- Chair: M. Flower, Portland State.
- Michael Flower, Portland State, "Tracing Moral Obligation by
Translating Otherwise"
- Reijo Miettinen, Mervi Hasu, and Eveliina Saari, Helsinki, "Dialogue
and Intervention in Science and Technology Studies"
- Jean Maria Arrigo, Claremont GU, and Kurt Smith, Claremont McKenna,
"Science and Society on an Epistemological Continuum"
(Theme:
Theory/General)
- 9.7: Research On-Line: Ethical and Professional Issues. Le
Pavillon.
- Chair/Organizer: Rachelle Hollander, NSF
- Andrew Feenberg and Maria Bakardjieva, "Involving the 'Virtual Subject' --
Conceptual, Ethical, and Methodological Aspects"
- Vivian Weil, IIT, "Producing On-Line Ethics in Software Development"
- Sanyin Siang, and Mark Frankel, AAAS, "Internet Research and Human
Subjects, a Workshop Report."
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 9.8: Science, Rhetoric, and Expertise in Environmental
Policy. Sportee.
- Chair/Discussant: Jeff Howard, RPI
- Bev Sauer, CMU, "Mining Experience: How Writers Capture Knowledge that is
Local, Embodied, Social, and Uncertain"
- Margaret L. Faler-Sweany, Michigan Tech, "Constraints and Authority in
Public Policy Hearings"
- Jeff Howard, RPI, "Post-Normal Science versus Precaution: Defining the
Role of Science in Sustainable Policies on Chemical Pollution"
(Theme: Environment)
- 9.9: Metaparadigms. Clarendon.
- Chair: Glenn Sanford, Sam Houston State
- Chunglin Kwa, Amsterdam, "Romantic and Baroque Conceptions of Complex
Wholes in the Sciences"
- Clarence Townsend, Eugene, Oregon, "Historical Pathways Toward
Integrating Positivism and Postmodernism"
- Glenn Sanford, Sam Houston State, "The Dual Role of
"How-Possibly" Explanations within Evolutionary Biology"
(Theme:
Theory/General)
- 9.10: Organizing Strategic Technoscience. Fairfield.
- Chair: John Cloud, UCSB
- John Cloud, UCSB, "To Do the Other Things: The Secret Geography of CORONA
and Cold War Knowledge Production"
- Mauricio Schoijet, "On Technical Bureaucracies"
- Charles Thorpe, "Engineering the Atomic State: The Army and the Political
Economy of the Bomb"
- Jessice Glicken, "From 'Laboratory Life' to the Production Floor:
Introducing Manufacturing Practices into an R&D Organization."
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- Interest Group Lunch Meetings: What's Next for STS? New Engagements
for Science Studies 12:00-1:30pm. Bring lunch and participate in this
roundtable discussion.
- Organizer/Facilitator: Joan Leach, Imperial College
- Rob Hagendijk, Department of Science and Technology Dynamics,
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Sujatha Raman, Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster, England
- Rafael Sassower, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA
- Session 10: 1:30-3:30pm
- 10.1: Biomedicine and Social Movements. Windsor I.
- Chair/Discussant: Nadia Caidi, UCLA
- Patrick Fox and Mary-Rose Mueller, UCSF, "The Influence of Biomedical
Conceptualizations of Disease on the Structure of Social Movements:
Alzheimer's Disease and AIDS."
- Anne Gatensby, York, "NO Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry: The Text
and Context of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Medicine."
- Jan Clarke, Augustana, "The Intersection Between Biomedical Research,
Clinical Practice, and Political Activism in AIDS Treatment Activism and the
Women's Health Movement."
(Theme: Health and Medicine)
- 10.2: Is the Virtual Society for Real? IV: Industries and
Organizations. Garden South.
- Organizers: S. Woolgar and N. Wakeford
- Nicole Green, "Embedding the Virtual in Media Industries: Organizations
and Location in Virtual Reality Technologies"
- Tolmie, "Real Work in the Virtual Organization"
- Neil Pollock, "The Virtual University as 'Timely and Accurate'
Information"
- Brown, "Presence, Absence, and Accountability: On the Politics of
Email"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 10.3: Legitimacy of Scientific Knowledge and Autonomy of Scientific
Community. Clarendon.
- Chair/Discussant: M. Lynch, Cornell
- M. Lynch, Cornell, "Dilemmas of Quantification: DNA Evidence,
Probability Estimates, and the Science/Common Sense Distinction"
- G. E. Martinez, E. I. Llinas, U Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina,
"Criterion of Scientist Valuation in the Institutional Context"
- Hidetoshi Kihara, Kokushican U, "Misuse of Informed Consent: Success and
Failure by STS Experts in Positioning Scientific Experts in Society"
- R. Landry, M. Laamary, N. Amara, U Laval, "Climbing the Research
Utilization Scale: Evidence from Social Science Research"
(Theme: STS & Its Publics)
- 10.4: Science and Others I. Towne.
- Chair/Discussant: W. Bauchspies, Penn State
- Margot Bouman, Rochester, "Borders"
- Chris Shepherd, Melbourne, "Agricultural Development and Local Knowledge
in Peru's Southern Andes"
(Theme: Theory/General)
- 10.5: Constituting Relations between Science Studies and Science
Education. Sportee.
- Organizer/Chair: Gwen Ottinger, UC-Berkeley
- Discussant: Sharon Traweek, UCLA
- Gwen Ottinger, UC-Berkeley, "Reconsistituting Science Through Science
Education"
- Rogers Hall, UC-Berkeley, "Logics of Participation and
Scientists-In-The-Making"
- Jean Lave, UC-Berkeley, "The Science of Theories of Learning"
- Charles Goodwin, UCLA, "Seeing as An Archaeologist"
(Theme: Education and STS & Its Publics)
- 10.6: Prosthetic/Prosthesis. Windsor II.
- Organizer: Chris Hables Gray, Great Falls
- Chair/Discussant, Heide Figueroa-Sarriera, Puerto Rico
- Chris Hables Gray, Great Falls, "Prosthetics and the Case of the
Ubiquitous Cyborg -- In Defense of the Metaphor"
- Diane Nelson, Lewis and Clark, "Phantom Limbs and Invisible Hands:
The Mujer Maya as Prosthetic in Quincentennial Guatemala"
- Steven Mentor, Evergreen, "Prosthetics and/as Cyborg Technics: Real
and Theoretical Minefields"
(Theme: Theory/General)
- 10.7: Agency and the Objects of Science. Esquire
- Chair/Discussant: Karin Knorr-Cetina, Bielefeld
- Anna Williams, Rochester/Washington State, "Wonderful Life? On Foucault,
Cuvier, Animals, and Capital"
- Renan Springer de Freitas, Minas Gerais, "Hume's Revenge"
- Karen Barad, Pomona, "Performing Culture, Performing Nature: Using
the Piezoelectric Crystal of Ultrasound Technologies as a Transducer
Between Science Studies and Queer Theories"
(Theme: Theory/General)
- 10.8: Design Interventions. Fairfield.
- Chair: K. Y. Yip, SUNY Stony Brook.
- Karin Garrety and Richard Badham, "The Murky Politics of Participatory
Design"
- Hans Glimell, "Society as Studio: Work-Centered Design at the
Crossroads"
- Yasuko Kawatoko, "The Design of Space for Making Mass Production
Visible"
- Duncker, et al., "Development Tools and Cultural
Diversity"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 10.9: Standards, Work, and Culture: Eaton.
- Organizer: S. L. Star
- Discussant: M. Callon
- Geof Bowker, "Narratives and Standards in Scientific Work"
- Martha Lampland, "Standards for Stalinists: The Science of Socialist
Productivity in Hungary (1948-1953)"
- Timmermans and Berg, "The Gold Standard of Medicine: Reflections on the
Politics of Sickness and Health"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 10.10: The Scientist's Role: Expertise, Virtue, Authority. Garden
North.
- Organizer: Steven Shapin, UCSD
- Chair: Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard
- Peter Dear, Cornell, "Makers of Transparency: Reason, Experience, and the
Social Role of the Early Modern Philosophy of Nature"
- Adrian Johns, UCSD, "The Scientist as Author and the Author as
Scientist"
- Steven Shapin, UCSD, "The Moral Equivalence of the Scientist: A
Preliminary History
(Theme: Theory/Methodology)
- Session 11: 4:00-6:00pm
- 11.1: Constructing, Communicating, and Surveilling Diseases.
Windsor I.
- Chair: Jessie Saul, Cornell
- Sean Lei, Chicago, "When Words Lost Their Referents."
- Javier Lezaun, Cornell, "Communicating Diseases: Epidemiological
Surveillance and State Boundaries in the EU."
- Jessie Saul, Cornell, "Constructing Blame During Public Health Crises:
Legal Legitimation in the AIDS Blood Crisis (France and the US)."
(Theme: Health and Medicine)
- 11.2: Communicating OnLine. Garden South.
- Chair/Discussant: Elke Duncker, Middlesex
- Andreas Kuhnel, "Communicating, Publishing, and Shaping Knowledge on the
Net"
- Pablo Boczkowski, "Distributed Construction: Changing Regimes of
Information Creation in Online Newspapers"
- Ingemar Bohlin, "Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Literature: Examining
the Debate"
- Alex Sokoloff, "Scorecard: Using Data Processing Technology to Empower the
Public"
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 11.3: STS and Science Policy II: Global Policy. Fairfield.
- Discussant/Chair: S. Raman, Lancaster
- S. Zehr, U Southern Indiana, "The Construction and Salience of
Economics Expertise in U.S. Global Climate Change Policy-Making"
- J. Jelsma, U Twente, "Introduction of GMOS in the Environment:
Policy-Making in the Face of Uncertainty"
- J. Lehenkari, U Helsinki, "Constructing the Scientific Status of a
Functional Food Product: The Case of Benecol Margarine"
- A. De Greiff, Imperial College and Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, U
Nacional De Colombia, "The 'November Revolutions: 'Charm', 'Color' and the
Boycott agsints the International Centr for Theoretical Physics, Trieste
(1974-76)."
(Theme: STS& Its Publics)
- 11.4: Science and Media II. Eaton.
- Organizer/Chair: S. Maasen, Max-Planck Institute
- Sabine Maasen, Max-Planck Institute, "Science and Public Discourses:
Communicating in Spite of and Through the Differences"
- P. Weingart, Bielefeld, "The Climate Change Issue in Discourses Between
Science, Politics, and Media"
- E. Valiverronen, Helsinki, "Mediated Science"
- M. Bucchi, Trento, "Surely You are Cooking, Mr. Feynman!
Strategies for the Presentation of Science in TV"
(Theme: STS & Its Publics)
- 11.5: Science and Others, II. Towne.
- Chair: P. Asquith, Alberta.
- Antonio Jose Junquieira Botelho, Pontifical Catholic University of
Rio de Janeiro, "Parallel Lives, Separate Existences: Comparative
Politics and Science and Technology Studies"
- Sean Zdenek, Carnegie Mellon, "Stoned Machines and Very Human Humans: The
Politics of Passing and Outing in the Loebner Competition"
- Wenda Bauchspies, RPI, "The Cultural Weave and Texture of
Classification and Knowledge"
- Sean Decatur, Mount Holyoke, "Ancient Steel and the 'Mean
Machine':Science and Technology in African-American Nationalist
Narratives"
- Pamela Asquith, Alberta, "Negiotiating Science: Japanese
Disciplinary Perspectives and International Discourse"
(Theme:
Theory/General)
- 11.6: Putting STS at the Core of Engineering: A Graduate Option in
Systems Engineering, Ethics, and Technology Studies. Sportee.
- Organizer/Chair: Michael E. Gorman, U Virginia
- Discussant: Steven Coe, Boeing.
- Michael E. Gorman, Inventing a Graduate Option in Engineering,
Ethics, and Technology Studies
- Mark P. Mauss, Implementing a Triple Bottom-Line: Sustainable
Agriculture at Birds Eye Walls"
- Luna Mylene Magpili, "Monsanto's Decision to Become a Life Sciences
Company"
- Matthew M. Mehalik, "Analysis of a Network of Environmentally
Sustainable Product Practitioners from withing a Changing
Educational Network"
(Theme: Education)
- 11.7: Food, Innovation Networks and the Discourses of
Environmental Risk. Windsor II.
- Organizers/Chairs: Fred Steward, Aston Business School and Steve
Yearly, York U
- Fred Steward, Steve Conway, Steven Yearley, Peter Bailey, Vincent
Mangematin, Clara-Eugenia Garcia, "Risk Controversies, Innovation Networks,
and Sustainable Technological Change in the Food Industry"
- Fred Steward, Vanisha Mahay, and Steve Conway, "Discourses of Risk in the
Animal-Feed Innovation Network: Anticipation, Hindsight, and Mad Cow
Disease"
- Peter Bailey, Steve Yearly, Juliette Lemari, Pierre Benoit-Joly, "GMOS,
Risk and Innovation in France"
- Mrill Ingram, U Arizona, "Inventing New T-Shirt
Ensembles: The Development of the Organic Cotton Market"
(Theme: Environment)
- 11.8: Traversing Sociotechnical Networks. Esquire.
- Chair/Discussant: Francis Harvey, U Kentucky
- Francis Harvey, "Rethinking Social Networks: Merging ANT and Boundary
Objects"
- Nicholas Chrisman, "Trading Zones or Boundary Objects?"
- Hugh Mackay, Open U., "Extending and Understanding the Network: The
Design of the SONY Walkman."
(Theme: Technology Studies)
- 11.9: Author-Meets-Critics, Donna Haraway, author of
Modest_Witness. Garden North.
- Organizer/Chair: Lucy Suchman, XEROX PARC.
- Claudia Castaneda, Lancaster
- Helen Verran, U Melbourne
- Kum-K. Bhavnani, UCSB
(Theme: Theory/General and Technology
Studies)
- Evening Activities:
- Reception: San Diego Aquarium. 7:00-9:00pm.
Busses will depart from Conference Hotel at 6:20pm.
This will be a ticketed event, featuring a cash bar, and
catered refreshments. Sponsored by the UCSD Science Studies Program, San Diego
State MALA Program, and the Departments of History, Sociology, and
Communication at UCSD. This is a non-smoking event.
- Student Social: 9:30pm -- ????, Location TBA.