Kean Birch is Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy and Professor in the Department of Science, Technology & Society and Graduate Program in Science & Technology Studies at York University, Canada. He is also Co-Editor of the journal Science as Culture and Editor of the Technoscience & Society Book Series published by University of Toronto Press. He is generally obsessed with the peculiarities of assets!
Alison Harvey is Associate Professor in Communications at Glendon College, York University and the Director of the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies. Her research and teaching focuses on issues of inclusivity and equity in digital culture, with an emphasis on gender and labour in creative technology sectors and the application of action-based and community-engaged methodologies.
Sergio Sismondo (Queen’s University, Canada) is editor of Social Studies of Science and author of An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies and other general works in the field. His past empirical research has been on how the pharmaceutical industry creates and shapes the knowledge landscapes on which it operates; see his Ghost-Managed Medicine: Big Pharma’s Invisible Hands. Recently, he has been working on a project developing STS frameworks for thinking about epistemic corruption.