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This article sets out to show how different understandings of technology as suggested by Science and Technology Studies (STS) help reveal different political facets of cybersecurity. Using cybersecurity research as empirical site, it is shown that two separate ways of understanding cybertechnologies are prevalent in society. The primary one sees cybertechnologies as apolitical, flawed, material objects that need to be fixed in order to create more security; the other understands them as mere political tools in the hands of social actors without considering technological (im)possibilities. This article suggests a focus on a third understanding to bridge the uneasy gap between the two others: technology defined as an embodiment of societal knowledge. The article posits that in line with that, the study of cyberpolitics would benefit from two innovations: a focus on cybersecurity as social practice―enacted and stabilized through the circulation of knowledge about vulnerabilities―and a focus on the practices employed in the discovery, exploitation and removal of those vulnerabilities.

This article sets out to show how different understandings of technology as suggested by Science and Technology Studies (STS) help reveal different political facets of cybersecurity. Using cybersecurity research as empirical site, it is shown that two separate ways of understanding cybertechnologies are prevalent in society. The primary one sees cybertechnologies as apolitical, flawed, material objects that need to be fixed in order to create more security; the other understands them as mere political tools in the hands of social actors without considering technological (im)possibilities. This article suggests a focus on a third understanding to bridge the uneasy gap between the two others: technology defined as an embodiment of societal knowledge. The article posits that in line with that, the study of cyberpolitics would benefit from two innovations: a focus on cybersecurity as social practice―enacted and stabilized through the circulation of knowledge about vulnerabilities― and a focus on the practices employed in the discovery, exploitation and removal of those vulnerabilities.

The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annually awards the John Desmond Bernal Prize to one or more individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of Science and Technology Studies. Past winners have included founders of the field, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to the understanding of the social dimensions of science and technology. This article is the revised text of Warwick Anderson's 2023 Bernal Lecture.

This timely and engaging book addresses communicative issues that arise when science and technology travel across socio-cultural boundaries. The authors discuss interactions between different scientific communities; scientists and policy-makers; science and the public; scientists and artists; and other situations where science clashes with other socio-cultural domains. The volume includes theoretical proposals of how to deal with intercultural communication related to science and technology, as well as rich case studies that illustrate the challenges and strategies deployed in these situations. Individual studies explore Europe, Latin America, and Africa, thus including diverse Global North and South contexts.

Die »Blackbox« der Forschungspraxis zu öffnen, darin liegt ein bisher zu selten ausgeschöpftes Potenzial für das Verständnis von Forschung, wie sie in den Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften im Allgemeinen und in den »Science and Technology Studies« im Besonderen vollzogen wird. Die interdisziplinären Beiträge des Bandes liefern Studien zur forschungspraktischen Reflexion über die Anwendung der Konzepte und Maximen der »STS«. Dabei stellen sie den unsichtbaren Forschungsprozess in den Mittelpunkt und analysieren, wie man empirisch mit den Konzepten und Begriffen der »STS« arbeitet. Das Ziel ist nicht weniger als die (Wieder-)Entdeckung des empirischen Ausgangspunkts der »STS«.

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies -- Intercultural Models in STS (1): Trading Zones -- Intercultural Models in STS (2): Trust -- Intercultural Models in STS (3): Expertise and Enculturation -- Intercultural Models in STS (4): Boundary Objects -- Book Structure -- Note -- References -- Part I: Interdisciplinary Communication -- Chapter 2: Linking the Subcultures of Physics: Virtual Empiricism and the Bonding Role of Trust -- The Social Gap Between High-Theory and Experiment -- You Need a Busload of Faith to Get By -- Other Conceptual and Technical Barriers to Communication -- Varieties of Trust -- Trust and Social Distance -- A Bundle of Trust: Virtual Empiricism -- Reassessing Trust in STS Using Virtual Empiricism: Two Cases -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Mutual Linguistic Socialisation in Interdisciplinary Collaboration -- Introduction -- Paleoclimatology and Paleo-Modelling -- Trade at Work: Collaboration Between Paleoclimatologists and Paleo-Modellers -- Paleo-Modellers and Interactional Expertise in Paleoclimatology -- Paleoclimatologists and Interactional Expertise in Paleo-Modelling -- The Mutual Linguistic Socialisation Process: Formal Courses -- Mutual Linguistic Socialisation: Joint Supervision -- Mutual Linguistic Socialisation in Scientific Events and in Research Projects -- Mutual Linguistic Socialisation: Ambassadors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Science and Policies of Deforestation in the Amazon: Reflecting Ethnographically on Multidisciplinary Collaboration -- Introduction -- Environmental Science and the Amazon -- Doing Ethnography of Science-Policy Interfaces -- Following the Amazalert Project -- Reducing Society into Models

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Beyond Postcolonial Theory: Two Undertheorized Perspectives on Science and Technology -- I. Counterhistories -- II. Other Cultures' Sciences -- III. Residues and Reinventions -- IV. Moving Forward: Possible Pathways -- Copyright Acknowledgments -- Index

This article sets out to show how different understandings of technology as suggested by Science and Technology Studies (STS) help reveal different political facets of cybersecurity. Using cybersecurity research as empirical site, it is shown that two separate ways of understanding cybertechnologies are prevalent in society. The primary one sees cybertechnologies as apolitical, flawed, material objects that need to be fixed in order to create more security; the other understands them as mere political tools in the hands of social actors without considering technological (im)possibilities. This article suggests a focus on a third understanding to bridge the uneasy gap between the two others: technology defined as an embodiment of societal knowledge. The article posits that in line with that, the study of cyberpolitics would benefit from two innovations: a focus on cybersecurity as social practice―enacted and stabilized through the circulation of knowledge about vulnerabilities―and a focus on the practices employed in the discovery, exploitation and removal of those vulnerabilities.

Ethics as governance in genomics and beyond /Stephen Hilgartner, Barbara Prainsack, and J. Benjamin Hurlbut --Responsible research and innovation /Jack Stilgoe and David H. Guston --Reframing science communication /Maja Horst, Sarah R. Davies, and Alan Irwin --Engaging with societal challenges /Clark A. Miller --Aging : the sociomaterial constitution of later life /Kelly Joyce, Alexander Peine, Louis Neven, and Florian Kohlbacher --Agricultural systems : co-producing knowledge and food /Alastair Iles, Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Maywa Montenegro, and Ryan Galt --Knowledge and security /Kathleen M. Vogel, Brian Balmer, Sam Weiss Evans, Inga Kroener, Miwao Matsumoto, and Brian Rappert --Researching disaster from an STS perspective /Kim Fortun, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Vivian Choi, Paul Jobin, Miwao Matsumoto, Pedro de la Torre III, Max Liboiron, and Luis Felipe R. Murillo --Environmental justice : knowledge, technology, and expertise /Gwen Ottinger, Javiera Barandiarán, and Aya H. Kimura --The making of global environmental science and politics /Silke Beck, Tim Forsyth, Pia M. Kohler, Myanna Lahsen, and Martin Mahony.

El constante avance de los diversos campos científicos a nivel mundial genera nuevas necesidades y preocupaciones, dentro de ellas también en el quehacer científico social. En buena parte de es en lo que se encuentra enmarcado en este presente handbook, publicado hace ya varios años por el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT por sus siglas en inglés), bajo el patrocinio de la Society for Social Studies of Science o 4S como mejor se le conoce, en comparación con el desarrollo de las dos anteriores versiones podemos ver en este libro u campo mucho mejor definido tanto en el sentido teórico como empírico. Se encuentra compuesto por 38 artículos de investigadores reconocidos en cada uno de los temas en cuestión. Lamentablemente, no podemos aquí reseñar todas las contribuciones de modo que en honor a la brevedad, analizaremos los grandes bloques bajo los cuales ha sido dividido este libro.