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Science and Technology Studies

yuti — July 9, 2007 / 1:31 pm

One of the sub-topics of this blog was labeled STS. An acronym for Science and Technology Studies, or sometimes also refer to Science, technology and Society. STS label was introduced around 1960s which in viewing relation between science, technology, and society, and how each of them influences the others, while its themes has been anticipated long time before, such as in book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions(1962) by Thomas Khun or in The Genesis and Development of Scientific Fact(1935) by Ludwig Fleck.

Although science and technology have already been used by the ancient people to get fire, move something using wheel etc, the industrial revolutions of the 17th and 18th century has translate our perception about technology. Technology is not just a tool to make our life easier, but also make our life more complicated.

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p>My friend use to call me an internet addict. Although I always argue him with a free choice to turn off the computer that connect me to the web every time I want it to, it still doesn’t reduce the time I spent in front of the computer. Does the computer start to influence me? This question is one of example that studied in STS, beside how its cultural constructed.

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