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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
