Science Societies: Resources for Life in a Technoscientific World

by Sarah R. Davies

Overview

What role do science and technology play in society? What is the nature of expert knowledge? What is science’s relation to democracy?

This introduction to science, technology, and society answers these questions, and more, by exploring contemporary research on topics such as expertise, activism, science policy, and innovation. It offers a comprehensive resource for considering the place that science and technology have in contemporary societies, and the roles that they can and should play.

Accessible to a non-specialist audience, it draws on a rich range of cases and examples, from nuclear activism in India to content moderation in Kenya. Framing science as always social, and society as always shaped by science and technology, it asks: what worlds do we want science and technology to bring into being?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529229011
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	11/26/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192

About the Author

Sarah R Davies is Professor of Technosciences, Materiality, and Digital Cultures in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. Her work explores the intersections between science, technology, and society, with a particular focus on digital tools and spaces. Her previous books include Science Communication: Culture, Identity, and Citizenship (2016) and Hackerspaces: Making the Maker Movement (2017).
Sarah R. Davies is Professor of Technosciences, Materiality and Digital Cultures at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Austria. Her work explores how science and society are co-produced: she has written about hackers and hackerspaces, how scientists experience the conditions of contemporary academia and science communication formats such as festivals and museums.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction - Science Societies;

Chapter 2: Histories and Imaginations;

Chapter 3: The Mutual Shaping of Technoscience and Society;

Chapter 4: Representing Science;

Chapter 5: Public Engagements;

Chapter 6: Knowledge in Crisis;

Chapter 7: Experts and Expertise;

Chapter 8: Science and Governance;

Chapter 9: Technoscience, Power and Justice;

Chapter 10: Conclusion – Resources for Life in a Technoscientific World;