EASTS

 

About the journal: EASTS

Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS) emerged in North American and Western Europe in the late 1960s and has achieved astonishing growth of scholarship since then. As an interdisciplinary approach to study the dynamic interplay of technoscience and society, researches of history, philosophy, sociology and other social studies contribute to this emerging field. STS theories and methods not only offer new perspectives to the understanding of science and technology changes, but also raise new issues to mainstream disciplines of humanities and social sciences with a fresh perspective on science and technology. ........(continued)

News & Activities

The first issue has been published.

Public Participation in Science and Technology (Volume 1, Number 1)

Guest Editors: Dung-Sheng Chen & Chia-Ling Wu

Les Levidow / European Public Participation as Risk Governance: Enhancing Democratic Accountability for Agbiotech Policy?

Kohta Juraku, Tatsujiro Suzuki & Osamu Sakura / Social Decision Making Processes in Local Contexts: An STS Case Study on Nuclear Power Plant Siting in Japan

Dung-Sheng Chen & Chung-Yeh Deng / Interaction between Citizens and Experts in Public Deliberation: A Case Study of Consensus Conferences in Taiwan

Brian Wynne / Public Participation in Science and Technology: Performing and Obscuring a Political-Conceptual Category Mistake

 

Highlight of Future Special Issues:

Colonial Science in Former Japan 's Imperial Universities (Volume 1, Number 2) Guest Editor: Togo Tsukahara

The Hwang Scandal and Stem Cell Research in Korea (Volume 2, Number 1) Guest Editor: Sungook Hong

Technology, Family and Gender in East Asia (Volume 2, Number 2) Guest Editor: Francesca Bray

Gender and Reproductive Technologies, (Volume 2, Number 3) Guest Editors: Adele Clarke, Azumi Tsuge and Chia-Ling Wu

 

 

 

 

 

2007 the 2nd conference of EASTS journal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2006 The 1st conference of EASTS journal

 

 

 

 

 

c 2007 National Science Council, Taiwan