Category: CFP

Call for Papers

CFP: Revista Iberoamericana de Docentes

Uno de los componentes más desarrollados en nuestros espacios web es el de CTS. tenemos la suerte de haber compartido artículos de académicos del nivel de José Antonio Acevedo y otrso muchos investigadores. Ello nos ha motivado a dedicar el segundo número de la revista al tema Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad.

Los estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología, o estudios sobre ciencia, tecnología y sociedad (CTS), constituyen un campo de trabajo en los ámbitos de la investigación académica, la educación y la política pública.

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Cfp: Special Issue of Culture Machine on Machine Intelligences in Context

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Deadline: March 1, 2020

Special Issue of Culture Machine
Machine Intelligences in Context: Beyond the Technological Sublime
Edited by Peter Jakobsson, Anne Kaun & Fredrik Stiernstedt

We are seeking contributions for a special issue of Culture Machine – an international open-access journal of culture and theory – exploring Machine Intelligences in Context.

Culture Machine is a series of experiments in culture and theory. Its aim is to seek out and promote scholarly work that engages provocatively with contemporary technical objects, processes and imaginaries from the North and South. Building on its open ended, non-instrumental, and exploratory approach to critical theory, Culture Machine calls for creative scholarship and research that contests globalizing technical narratives and their environmental logics of extraction.

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Cross-Border Healthcare: the interaction between countries, cities, and cultures in healthcare

Deadline: October 2019

How do bodies, knowledges, tissues, ideas, instruments, policies, cross borders in today’s globalized healthcare scenario? Where do they come from and where do they travel to, and why? What do these displacements do to the local healthcare practice in each point of the journey? What do these border-crossings imply in terms of healthcare services, conceptions of health, illness, western medicine, and other forms of healthcare knowledges? What sort of reflection can the notion of ‘cross-border’ healthcare produce? What about the other terms circulating in the literature, in the market, and in legislations? For example, terms like: medical tourism, healthcare mobilities, healthcare industry, healthcare displacements, healthcare industrial complex, or medical / healthcare exile. The present cluster seeks to bring together sociological, anthropological, or historical work done within areas such as: Continue reading →

Call for chapters. Actor-Network Theory: Concepts, methods and applications

Deadline: March 30, 2019.

Convocatoria en español

Despite its wide dissemination within the social sciences and the humanities, Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has been little addressed in Latin America in a systematic way. Thus, while there are many studies that use this framework in articles, book chapters and graduate theses, a book in Spanish that focuses on its main contributions and current and potential developments is still pending. This call responds to the need to have a reference text on ANT in Spanish for Ibero-American audiences. Continue reading →

Innovation Challenges in Latin America

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Journal of Technology Management and Innovation

Innovation emerges as an option for companies to achieve growth and sustainability in a dynamic, complex and increasingly competitive environment. Thus, the innovation process has been analyzed from different perspectives, finding different definitions and classifications (Porter, 1998; Cooke, 2008; McCann and Ortega-Argiles, 2015; Geldes et al, 2017a). Continue reading →