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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">CfP:
</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">A Moment of Post-Truth - What are the Implications for STS?</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Special issue of Engaging Science, Technology and Society
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Special Issue Editors: Johan Söderberg & Kean Birch
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Invited discussant: Linsey McGoey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">The surge of post-truth, alternative facts, and filter bubbles have turned the table on
STS discussions about knowledge and truth. Interest in the production of knowledge has been flipped to an interest in the production of non-knowledge,
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">i.e.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">
ignorance. The case could be made that we always have lived in post-truth times. Still, recent political developments underline the gravity of the epistemological issues that previously were confined to academic seminar rooms. The need to be able to tell truthful
statements apart from lies was not felt to be so urgent before the rise of populist and anti-rationalist movements and the election of their candidates into seats of office. The haunting question
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">that needs to be addressed is</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">:
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">how
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">can
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">(if at all)
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">the need for making such distinctions be accomplished with core STS tenets: the social construction of
scientific facts, the under-determination of empirical data, the symmetrical treatment of true and false statements, and the equalization of lay expertise with expert expertise</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">?</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">
What theoretical developments are prompted by the </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">current</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">
political landscape? What philosophical traditions and theoretical resources are available to STS scholars for steering a path between the Scylla of
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">technocracy</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">
and the Charybdis of </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">populism</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">?
Contributors to the special issue of are invited to engage with these questions</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> from a variety of
different standpoints</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">. We are looking for papers where theoretically challenging positions are developed
through empirically grounded case studies. Linsey McGoey will give her reflection on the individual papers in a concluding section</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">
of this special issue of 4S Open Access journal Engaging Science, Technology and Society</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Prospecting authors are requested to send a n</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">otification
of interest + </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">a
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">preliminary title/abstract</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">
by</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> 15 October 2017</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">.
Please send it to the special editors: johan [dot] soderberg [at] sts [dot] gu [dot] se and keanbirch [at] gmail [dot] com</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Preliminary publication date</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">
is scheduled for</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.75pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"> winter 2018/spring 2019</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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