Where STS and Security Studies meet each other
Sensing Security: Sensors and the Making of Transnational Security Infrastructures Editors: Nina Witjes, ( MCTS, Technical University of Munich ) Nikolaus Pöchhacker ( MCTS,Technical University of Munich ) Geoffrey C. Bowker ( Evoke Lab, University of California, Irvine ) Sensing Security - Call for ContributionsIn outer-space, underwater, in cities, our homes, or on our …
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Every decade or so, the Science and Technology Studies (STS) community gathers to assess the state of the discipline and see where we might be going. This gathering takes the form of a new edition of the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, which is now available. I was lucky enough to work with a …
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Limn Magazine has recently published two issues on STS/security studies related themes: Systemic Risk and Public Infrastructures/Infrastructural Publics.
The Journal of International Humanitarian Action has set up a "thematic series" on the topic of Humanitarian Technology. The journal is an open-source publication that publishes articles on a rolling basis (full disclosure: I 'm part of the editorial team). The thematic series is edited by Katja Lindskov Jacobsen (Copenhagen University) and Kristin Sandvik (PRIO/University of Oslo) …
There is a new journal out for the sts and security community! Please check it at http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/secrecyandsociety/ Secrecy and Society is an international, interdisciplinary, peer reviewed open access journal that analyzes, critiques, and evaluates dimensions of secrecy in society. The journal explores secrecy as the intentional or nonintentional concealment of information at the intersections of theory, definition, …
By Nina Witjes and Philipp Olbrich In contrast to its secretive origins in the Cold War, an ongoing commercialization has put satellite imagery into the hands of a diverse and growing global community. Google Earth and other mapping services have become firmly integrated in how people travel and communicate with each other as well as visually …
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