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To what extent is the normative commitment of STS to the democratization of science a product of the democratic contexts where it is most often produced? STS scholars have historically offered a powerful critical lens through which to understand the social construction of science, and seminal contributions in this area have outlined ways in which citizens have improved both the conduct of science and its outcomes. Yet, with few exceptions, it remains that most STS scholarship has eschewed study of more problematic cases of public engagement of science in rich, supposedly mature Western democracies, as well as examination of science-making in poorer, sometimes non-democratic contexts. How might research on problematic cases and dissimilar political contexts traditionally neglected by STS scholars push the field forward in new ways? This paper responds to themes that came out of papers from two Eastern Sociological Society Presidential Panels on Science and Technology Studies in an Era of Anti-Science. It considers implications of the normative commitment by sociologists working in the STS tradition to the democratization of science. ; https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/383 ; Published version

Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature. Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe. with additional contributors. New York and London: New York University Press, 1997. 331 pp.

Since the 1990s, Chinese literary enthusiasts have explored new spaces for creative expression online, giving rise to a modern genre that has transformed Chinese culture and society. Ranging from the self-consciously avant-garde to the pornographic, web-based writing has introduced innovative forms, themes, and practices into Chinese literature and its aesthetic traditions. Conducting the first comprehensive survey in English of this phenomenon, Michel Hockx describes in detail the types of Chinese literature taking shape right now online and their novel aesthetic, political, and ideological c

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Presentation slides for a talk given on Taiwan's citizen science facemask mapping platform and its collaboration with the Taiwanese government during the COVID-19 pandemic. This example demonstrates citizen science as a form of participatory democracy that directly influenced government policy, while a dedication to open science principles with open source licensing of all material allowed creative solutions to flourish. This was part of Taiwan's wider aggressive response to COVID-19 that resulted in zero confirmed locally transmitted cases since April 2020 until the time of this talk in September. The citizen science network behind the mapping platform is g0v (pronounced "gov zero"): https://g0v.asia/ Many thanks to Hung-Ying Chen for valuable insights and comments during the development of this talk. The presentation file (`Hsing citizen science open science 2020-09-11.pptx`) was saved by Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 build 13127.20296 on Windows 10 in the Office Open XML Strict format. The file includes embedded narration (AAC encoding) and automatic slide timings. The fonts Metropolitano (https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/metropolitano) and Source Code Pro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Pro) are also embedded, both released under the SIL Open Font License. A text transcript of this talk is in the file `Hsing citizen science open science 2020-09-11 transcript.txt`. All files are shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license unless otherwised noted.