Abstract

In this companion, editors Daniel Lee Kleinman and Kelly Moore bring together a diverse group of authors who provide thoughtful analyses of some of the most crucial technoscientific issues across the global social, economic and political landscape today. Authors' contributions will fit into one of six topical areas: digitization, environments, technoscience and/as work, technoscience and bodies, rules and standards, and consuming technoscience. Each writer will consider three key processes in their substantive essays: how and why ideas, artifacts, and practices come to be institutionalized or disrupted; what explains the scale at which technoscience comes to have meaning, is struggled over and travels; and/or the means by which materiality and cultural value shape science and technology. This well-integrated global volume moves beyond the rich description that has characterized much STS scholarship in recent years.