Workshop: Engaging the Global Flux of Technoscientific Developments and Regulatory Responses

该奖项为将于2017年10月在亚利桑那州坦佩举行的第八届新兴技术研究学会（S.NET）年会提供资金。S.NET的目标是在新兴技术的社会维度上促进跨学科和跨国的学术研究。研讨会将促进广泛的知识探索，并促进有关社会与新兴技术之间相互影响的各种文献的持续发展。大部分资金将用于研究生、博士后、来自代表性不足群体的学者和来自美国的初级学者，这些学者被接受出席会议，并且很少或没有其他旅行支持。获资助的受助人将参加两个工作坊，重点关注下一代STS学者的早期职业发展。2017年会议的主题是“参与变化”，暗指技术发展、科学知识生产和社会变革的持续变化。提议的研讨会将体现会议主题，以两种方式拥抱它，对科学社会研究、STS、科学知识艺术实践和STEM学科的初级学者具有重要意义。会议预计将聚集150-200名S.NET成员（基于过去的出席记录），其中大部分人将展示直接涉及通量的研究。所申请的资金将使学术工作具有应用效益，以负责任的方式发展新的科学知识和技术，产品创新和商业化，可持续经济发展，以及（因此）人类物质和物质的长期改善。在社会技术、政治和专业不确定性加剧的历史时刻，这些资金还将在受助人职业生涯的关键阶段促进他们的专业发展。

This award provides funding for the 8th annual meeting of the Society for the Studies of New and Emerging Technologies (S.NET), which is to be held in October 2017, in Tempe, Arizona. The goal of S.NET is to foster interdisciplinary and transnational scholarship on the societal dimensions of emerging technologies. The workshop will promote broad ranging intellectual inquiry and contribute to the continued development of diverse literatures on the mutual impacts between societies and emerging technologies. The bulk of the funds will be directed to graduate students, postdocs, scholars from underrepresented groups and junior scholars from the US that are accepted to present at the conference and who have little, or no other, travel support. Supported recipients will participate in two workshops focused specifically on early career professional development of the next generation of STS scholars. The 2017 conference theme is "Engaging the Flux," which alludes to the ongoing flux of technological developments, scientific knowledge productions, and societal alterations. The proposed workshops will embody the conference theme, embracing it in two ways of significance to junior scholars in the social studies of science, STS, science-informed art practices, and STEM disciplines. The conference will gather a projected 150-200 S.NET members (based on past attendance records), the vast bulk of whom will present on research that directly engages flux. The requested funds will enable scholarly work with applied benefits for the responsible development of new scientific knowledge and technologies, product innovation and commercialization, sustainable economic development, and (consequently) the long-term material and physical betterment of humankind. The funds will also fuel the professional development of the recipients at a crucial stage in their careers during a historic moment of intensified sociotechnical, political and professional uncertainty.