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SUMMARY:4S 2026 Toronto: TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures
DESCRIPTION:The 50th Anniversary for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S): calls for presentations\, panels\, and adjacent gatherings that engage our theme of TechnoPower. Science\, technology\, and innovation are not neutral; as STS scholars\, we understand them as socially\, culturally\, and economically constructed and deeply entangled with a specific form of technoscientific power. The theme emphasizes that money and wealth are increasingly shaping our technoscientific futures\, raising urgent analytical and normative questions about how to reclaim power from “tech” billionaires and oligarchs. At this critical juncture\, our task is not only to critique and demystify technoscience but also transform how others perceive and engage with technoscience. From the reinforcement of harmful value(s) systems to the assetization of knowledge and the erosion of ecological and social justice\, a specifically technoscientific capitalism has embedded market logics and elite control into our knowledge institutions\, innovation choices\, and into technological change itself. Yet\, as we also know so well\, technoscience is always contested\, and STS offers plural and grounded alternatives to understanding and reframing technoscience\, from citizen science to community engagement in innovation to Indigenous knowledge. A key challenge now is to accelerate our interventions into public\, policy\, and political debate by using our empirical\, analytical\, and normative tools to shift technoscientific futures away from the dictates of a wealthy few towards a technoscience that fosters collective wellbeing\, justice\, and sustainability. \nClick here to learn more and register to attend by August 31\, 2o26.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/4s-2026-toronto-technopower-technoscientific-futures/
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SUMMARY:Refuse\, Resist\, Repair: Making Critical Moves in the Times of AI | DISCO Network
DESCRIPTION:A.I. is inevitable — at least\, that is what we would be led to believe from the nonstop media coverage\, podcast interviews with tech billionaires\, and the advertisements interspersed in our TikTok and Reels doomscrolling sessions. But what does it mean to bring a critical eye to Generative A.I.? Why should the average person care about how their data is used to fuel these systems? Who does the labor that makes them work? And what impact will this push to incorporate A.I. in the classroom\, healthcare\, politics\, and pop culture have on us as a society and on our environment? This panel considers three possibilities: refusal\, resistance\, and repair as responses to A.I.’s creep into our daily lives. \nThis event is open to the public\, and we encourage all interested faculty\, graduate students\, and undergraduate students to attend.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/refuse-resist-repair-making-critical-moves-in-the-times-of-ai-disco-network/
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