Preliminary Program Society for Social Studies of Science 2015 Annual Meeting November 11-14 Denver, Colorado WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 11 Paper Session 8:30 to 10:00 am 001. 4S Publication Committee Meeting Denver Hotel: Director's Row J Business Meeting Participants: 1:00 to 3:00 pm Denver Hotel: Plaza Court 8 Extracting life: open pit mines on a Mars analog Filippo Bertoni, Aarhus University 002. 4S Council Meeting Making ‘artisanal’ miners, appropriating African mineral Business Meeting expertise Robyn d'Avignon, University of Michigan 3:00 to 6:00 pm What Lies Beneath: The Work of Mineral Reserves Reporting Denver Hotel: Plaza Court 8 Standards Marcus Wallner, Department of Social and 003. Presidential Plenary Economic Geography, Uppsala University Plenary Session Who Speaks for the Subsurface? A Decade of Groundwater 6:00 to 7:30 pm and Natural Gas Conflict in the Four Corners Region Denver Hotel: Plaza Ballroom A, B, C Adrianne Kroepsch, University of Colorado-Boulder Chair: Uranium Mining and Socioeconomic Expertise Charles de Gary Downey, Virginia Tech Souza, Virginia Tech 004. 4S Welcome Reception Discussant: Reception Abby Kinchy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 7:30 to 9:00 pm 008. Computing in Science: Infrastructure, Work, and Denver Hotel: Plaza Exhibit All Knowledge Paper Session 8:30 to 10:00 am THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 12 Denver Hotel: Governor's Square 11 Participants: 005. Critical STS Approaches to Science Communication, I Collaborative Challenges in Interdisciplinary Data Science Paper Session Projects Theresa Velden, University of Michigan; jean- 8:30 to 10:00 am christophe plantin, university of michigan; Carl Lagoze, Denver Hotel: Director's Row E Cornell University Participants: Modelling life: the emergence of systems biology Niki Science communication beyond deficit and dialogue Sarah R Vermeulen, University of Edinburgh Davies, University of Copenhagen; Maja Horst, University Object as Infrastructure: The Sky in Astronomical Computing of Copenhagen Goetz Hoeppe, University of Waterloo The role change and evaluation of scientist in science Thick Traces: Three-Dimensonal Modeling in Archaeology communication Xiaomin Zhu, Peking University Emanuel Moss, CUNY Graduate Center Unpacking the ‘science’ in Indian science museums Anwesha Mediatization that makes SENSE: Media Objects, Logics, and Chakraborty, University of Bologna Practices in a Networked Nuclear Physics Laboratory Science slam: a new popularized and artistic way of informal Jonathan Scott Brennen, UNC-Chapel Hill science communication Miira Hill, Technical University 009. The Reflexive Turn in Art and Science Studies: Art and Berlin Science I: Power Relations in Art and Science Studies: Sounding out how we speak about synthetic biology Britt Wray, Methods of Analysis University of Copenhagen Paper Session Chair: 8:30 to 10:00 am Maja Horst, University of Copenhagen Denver Hotel: Governor's Square 12 006. From Bedrooms to Boardrooms Participants: Paper Session Patterns of Power: Investigating Interactions in Art and Science 8:30 to 10:00 am Hannah Star Rogers, Cornell University Denver Hotel: Director's Row G Shoddy Weeds: Natural Histories of Waste and Empire Hanna Participants: Rose Shell, MIT Program in STS The credit card as plasmic device Justin Douglas, University of Technologies in Science and Art. A Comparison of Two Toronto Object’s Genesis Julian Stubbe, Technische Universität Corporate scenario planning’s alternative future histories Berlin Bretton Fosbrook, York University Art-sci Projects: What Kind of Evidence? For Whom? Silvia Personality testing, human capital, and affect in corporate Casini, University of Aberdeen America Kira Lussier, University of Toronto Pull, Process, Print: Aesthetic Interventions in Biodata Paula How Industry Analysts Shape the digital Future: Towards a Gardner, OCAD University Sociology of Business Knowledge neil pollock, university of Chair: edinburgh; Robin Williams, University of Edinburgh Hannah Star Rogers, Cornell University Imaginative Hedonism and the Pleasures of Economic Literacy 010. Sex and Gender in Biomedicine Media Caroline Jack, Cornell University Paper Session 007. STS Underground: Investigating the Technoscientific 8:30 to 10:00 am Worlds of Mining and Subterranean Extraction I Denver Hotel: Governor's Square 14 Thursday, November 12 Participants: Making meaningful materialities of technology and Swedish A Blunt Instrument?: Cosmetic Surgery in Southeast Asia and sign language. Rebekah Cupitt, Department of Media the U.S. Alka Menon, Northwestern University Technology & Interaction Design, Royal Insitute of Controversies on Biological Sex: Two Critical Moments in the Technology, Sweden History of the Sciences of Sex Veronica Sanz, UC-Berkeley Playing with Materiality: Understanding Digital Materiality Displaying the Once Internal: Visualizing Medical Practice and through Emulated Play of Two Zelda Games Ayse Gursoy, a Surgical Signature in late Ottoman Istanbul Zeynep Devrim School of Information, University of Texas at Austin Gursel, Macalester College Material matters: a reflection about physical art in video games Interspecies Orgies: Locating Human Nature within Entangled Federica Orlati, IT University of Copenhagen Sexualities Charlie Lotterman, Rice University 014. Knowledge and Practice in Medicine 011. Digital Worlds Paper Session Paper Session 8:30 to 10:00 am 8:30 to 10:00 am Denver Hotel: Plaza Ballroom D Denver Hotel: Governor's Square 16 Participants: Participants: Autism, Ethics, and Applied Behavioural Analysis: how Examining digital disruption in the music industry Hyojung evidence becomes empathy Julia Frances Gruson-Wood, Sun, University of Edinburgh York University Objects, Ontologies, and Technologies: Personal Photography Doing ‘Medications’: Praxiography to inform the coordination in the Age of Social Media Nancy A. Van House, University of medical work David Peddie, Simon Fraser University of California, Berkeley Negotiating the Evidence Hierarchy – How Information Optimized for access: a short history of cultural heritage Mediators Frame Evidence in Healthcare Practice Jill digitization Melissa K Chalmers, University of Michigan McTavish, London Health Sciences Centre Physically Dis-abled teenagers using the internet Herminder Technological Change in Medical Practice: who makes it? Ann Kaur, Loughborough University Lennarson Greer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Scott The Role of Mass Media; as a “post-school education system” L Greer, University of Michigan Midori Aoyagi, National Institute for Environmental Studies The Sociomateriality of Medical Decision Making: The Case of Cardiology Practice Phaedra Daipha, Rutgers University 012. Prospects for Technoscientific Democratization in Chair: Unexpected Places: The Space Case Phaedra Daipha, Rutgers University Paper Session 8:30 to 10:00 am 015. Postphenomenological Research 1: Alterity relations, robots, Denver Hotel: Governor's Square 17 and virtual others Participants: Paper Session The Long Space Age: Public and Private Space Exploration 8:30 to 10:00 am Eras Alexander MacDonald, NASA Denver Hotel: Plaza Ballroom E Sharing the Shuttle with America: NASA and Public Participants: Engagement Amy Kaminski, NASA/Virginia Tech The Internet Teacher: Online/Virtual/Cyber or Authority in Space: the “First”, not “Final”, Frontier for participatory Alterity Relations? Bjarke Lindsø Andersen, Aarhus Technology Assessment Gretchen L Gano, Arizona State University University Multistable Alterity Relations Cathrine Hasse, Aarhus Democratic Risks in Neoliberal Spaceflight and Governing University Public Goods Michael Bouchey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Weird Realism and Alterity Relations – and Some Remarks Institute about the Gaze of Robots Oliver Tafdrup, Aarhus University NASA’s Use of Anthropomorphism in Marketing Space Synesthesia and Human-Robot-Interactions – How Alterity Programs to the Public Deron Ash, Arizona State University Relations shape Sensorimotor Unity Michael Funk, TU Chair: Dresden David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park The relationship between cats and pansies: a post- Discussant: phenomenological perspective on technology, culture and David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park education. Maurício Fernando Bozatski, Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul 013. Materialities of the Digital: Bodies Chair: Paper Session Cathrine Hasse, Aarhus University 8:30 to 10:00 am Discussant: Denver Hotel: Governor's Square 9 Robert Rosenberger, Georgia Institute of Technology Participants: Desire by Design Patrick Keilty, University of Toronto 016. S&T policies: the evolution of agendas and of governance practices I From Feeling the Digital to Becoming the Digital Jason Archer, Paper Session University of Illinois at Chicago 8:30 to 10:00 am Go-go gadget vision or a cure for the blind? A rhetorical Denver Hotel: Plaza Ballroom F analysis of Google X's bionic contact lens Kirsten Ellison, Participants: University of Calgary; Isabel Pedersen, University of Ontario Institute of Technology The volatility of S&T policy agenda in Brazil Victor Pelaez, Federal University of Parana; Noela Invernizzi, Federal 2 Thursday, November 12 University of Parana; Carolina Bagattolli, UFPR - Efurd, Wofford College Universidade Federal do Paraná; Marcos Paulo Fuck, Chair: Federal University of Parana Anthony Cerulli, Hobart & William Smith Colleges South Africa’s STI system: the quest for equitable development 019. Psychotechnics: Historicizing the Psychotechnical Erika Kraemer-Mbula, Institute for Economic Research