Author: skat25
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Are We Complicit? Talking Social Constructionism in the Age of Trump
by Owen Whooley Like many, the presidential election has left me with a profound sense of unease. This unease operates on three registers, the combination of which concoct a veritable witch’s brew of angst. The first is the unease I feel as a citizen, concerned about the state of our democratic institutions. The second is…
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Perspectives in SKAT blog posts
The perspectives shared in individual posts on this blog do not necessarily reflect the views of the SKAT section, nor of the American Sociological Association. All posts are the sole responsibility of their author(s).
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SKAT Council Publishes Statement on Trump Administration and Congress
On February 14, 2017, the SKAT Council voted unanimously to adopt the following policy statement. Statement of American Sociological Association Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology (SKAT) Regarding Recent and Future Actions of the Trump Administration and Congress The free exchange of ideas is a core value of democratic societies and the foundation of research…
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Fake News and the Future of Journalism
From friend of the section Pablo J. Boczkowski of Northwestern University: “Every public has its own universe of discourse and…humanly speaking, a fact is only a fact in some universe of discourse.” Writing those words three quarters of a century before the Oxford Dictionaries named “post-truth” the 2016 word of the year, Robert Park — a…
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A Media Ecosystem for an Age of Fracture
by Shreeharsh Kelkar, University of California at Berkeley As the dust settles after Donald Trump’s shocking upset of Hillary Clinton in the US Presidential Election, and we await the long-term fallout, I am left wondering about what “objectivity” in media institutions will—and should—look like in the future in this age of political polarization. How might we—social…
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Knowledge and Expertise after the Election
By Dan Morrison, Vanderbilt University Note: This is a revised version of the leading essay in the November 2016 issue of Skatology. Dan Morrison takes full responsibility for its content, and thanks Scott Frickel for his comments on an earlier draft. Donald J. Trump is President-elect here in the United States. Articles like those Joe Waggle…
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In This Together
By Elise Paradis†, Michael W. Freeman*, Michael Kim*, Patricia J. Leake*, and Umesh Poopalarajah* University of Toronto † Corresponding author * Equal contributors, in alphabetical order We, the authors of this text, were brought together in a research methods class taught by Elise Paradis at the University of Toronto, Canada. We are a diverse, interdisciplinary…
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New Essays on the US Election
Over the next day or two, we will publish here three essays on the recent US election and the potential impacts of a Trump administration on science, science policy, and the state of knowledge and (perhaps) ignorance. Please do watch our Resource Hub page, under construction, for more resources.
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Announcing SocArXiv — Guest Post by Philip Cohen
Dear sociologists, SocArXiv, the open archive of social science, has just launched in beta version. Led by a steering committee ofsociologists and librarians, SocArXiv is a free, open access repository for prepublication versions of papers. Created as a not-for-profit alternative to sites like Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and SSRN, SocArXiv is built in collaboration with the Center for…
Welcome to the official website of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology (SKAT) Section 