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How can we understand the intensifying interactions of science and society? It is the interdisciplinary field called science studies that provides us with a rich inventory of analytical approaches. They help us explore science as a practice, a subsystem, a culture, and an institution. Their joint observation: Science today is part and parcel of what has come to be known as 'knowledge society'. More than ever, knowledge production and consumption are in need of incessant monitoring and sophisticated reflection. Nine exemplary studies that inquire into, or are themselves examples of the dynamics of scientific knowledge, are included here: They cover issues as diverse as eugenics, climate research, and the role of historiography, and make use of different tools such as evolutionary reasoning, metaphor, and bibliometrics. Finally, they ponder the need for science to go public (PUS) as well as for society to regulate knowledge and to restructure universities as building blocks of our science system. Their joint message: Science studies can and should assume an active role in observing, reflecting, and communicating the intricate encounters of science and society today.

Modern Society --- Science --- Sociology of Science --- Sociology of Knowledge --- Sociology

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Technoscience transformiert sowohl Technologien als auch herkömmliche Körperkonzepte. Dabei entstehen dynamische Verkörperungen. Diese faszinieren die wissenschaftliche Beobachtung und provozieren disziplinenübergreifend grundlegende Fragen. Der Band konturiert solche neuen Forschungsfronten. Er reflektiert Erweiterungen des Körperbegriffs und gibt Einsichten in die komplexe, aber produktive Verwobenheit von Diskursen und Technologien, die aus dem wissenschaftlichen Transfer von Leitbildern zwischen Naturwissenschaften und Kulturwissenschaften resultieren.

Wissenschaft --- Technik --- Körper --- Cyborg --- Bioinformatik --- Artificial Life --- Wissenschaftssoziologie --- Soziologie --- Science --- Technology --- Body --- Sociology of Science --- Sociology

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Intercultural, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research interfaces confront researchers with considerable challenges. Towards Shared Research portrays how scholars from different disciplinary and geographical origins and at various academic career stages strive for a more inclusive and better understanding of knowledge about African environments. The book is addressed to researchers, facilitators, and policy-makers to make a case for participatory and integrative approaches resulting in systemic and co-created analyses.

Participatory Methodologies --- Epistemology --- Action Anthropology --- African Environments --- Research Collaborations --- Science --- Sociology of Science --- Ethnology --- Cultural Anthropology

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Between 2014 and 2017, the artistic research project "TransCoding – From 'Highbrow Art' to Participatory Culture" encouraged creative participation in multimedia art via social media. Based on the artworks that emerged from the project, Barbara Lüneburg investigates authorship, authority, motivational factors, and aesthetics in participatory art created with the help of web 2.0 technology. The interdisciplinary approach includes perspectives from sociology, cultural and media studies, and offers an exclusive view and analysis from the inside through the method of artistic research. In addition, the study documents selected community projects and the creation processes of the artworks Slices of Life and Read me.

Artistic Research --- Audiovisual Art --- Participatory Culture --- Social Media --- Crossover Culture --- Culture, Art --- Internet --- Cultural Studies --- Media Art --- Digital Media --- Sociology of Science

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AIDS, Ebola und abstürzende Computer; Fremdkörper, Parasiten und Sleeper; Bio- und Cyberterrorismus, Tierseuchen und zuletzt SARS: Viren zirkulieren derzeit in verschiedensten Bereichen. Dabei erweist sich die Metaphorik des Wortes als ebenso grenzgängerisch und mutierend wie die konkreten Objekte. Sie wird bemüht, um Bedrohungsszenarien und grenzsichernde Maßnahmen durchzusetzen und dient gleichzeitig als Modell für Widerstand und subversive Selbstinszenierungen. Kein Zufall, dass sich die jüngste Mediendebatte um terroristische Gewalt erneut in diesen Mustern verfangen hat. Der Band »VIRUS!« untersucht die Auswirkungen der Bilder von riskanten Kontakten, Ansteckung und Unterwanderung - nicht nur auf die Herstellung der »harten Fakten« in Naturwissenschaften und Technik, sondern auch auf die Gestaltung der globalen Weltordnung.

Viren --- Epidemien --- Ansteckung --- Wissenschaftsgeschichte --- Biologische Kriegsführung --- Computerviren --- Medien --- Wissenschaft --- Medienästhetik --- Wissenssoziologie --- Wissenschaftssoziologie --- Medienwissenschaft --- History of Science --- Media --- Science --- Media Aesthetics --- Sociology of Knowledge --- Sociology of Science --- Media Studies