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Executive Editor: Steve Breyman Managing Editors: Lane DeNicola, Hector Postigo Email the editorial staff |
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Hello and thanks for reading the Fall issue of Technoscience. During
this year’s 4s Conference in Paris the Publications Committee came
to the following decisions regarding Technoscience:
“(1) Council charged the Secretary (Wesley Shrum) with implementing
the transition to a fully web-based membership system within one year.
A Members Only section of the web page will include access to the Membership
directory.
(2) Council approves the elimination of the Technoscience newsletter and,
as soon as feasible, the implementation of a monthly broadcast email with
headlines and links to the full announcements.
(3) The Publications Committee is charged with the oversight of web publications
and will be enlarged. One matter to be considered by the next Publications
Committee is the enrichment of the Members Only site. The Publication
and Web Society would like to ensure that the prize award and acceptance
speeches, Author-Meets-Critics sessions, and Presidential Plenary sessions
be published. Also to be examined are thesis and dissertation abstracts,
(b) lists of recently-published STS books, (c) a scaled-up book review
effort, (d) tables of contents from STS journals, (e) short articles contributed
by members. Publications committee will formulate a plan, together with
the new Contributing Editors, for the enhancement of context.
(4) Council determined to use current newsletter funds to support three
students. The title of each will be “Contributing Editor, 4S Web
Publications.” The three individuals will work together and share
information, though they need not be located at the same institution.
Each will have a salary of $3000 annually. The Chair of the Publications
Committee has oversight of the work of these three Contributing Editors.
The Publications Committee will solicit nominations from the 4S student
section and the Council. Two of these will be responsible for managing
information on the main page of the site. The third will be responsible
for managing information on the Student site, who will be appointed by
the Student section Each of the three general categories for information
(Events, Papers & Proposals, Positions).”
As per the committee’s decisions this will be the last print version
of Technoscience. The editors will continue on as contributing editors
to the website where we will join graduate student representative David
Conz, a PhD student in Arizona State University's Sociology Department.
We've enjoyed bringing you the print edition of Technoscience over the
years and look forward to keeping you informed and involved through our
website and the new electronic edition of Technoscience.
Please visit us on the web at http://www.4sonline.org
We continue soliciting photos of STS related activities or subjects to
be included on the website and contributors for reviews and articles for
the new content sections. Please make submissions to any of the editors
of the newsletter at their respective email addresses.