This Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the expanding field of science and technology studies (STS). Covering key frameworks, themes and topics, Ulrike Felt and Alan Irwin bring together expert contributors to map the development of STS within its historical and intellectual context.

Contents Introduction: On encyclopedias, maps and multiplicities in science and technology studies 1 Ulrike Felt and Alan Irwin PART I FRAMES 1 Co-production 13 Brice Laurent 2 Actor-Network Theory 24 Mike Michael 3 Finetuning terms: heterogeneity, multiplicity and specificity 34 Annemarie Mol 4 The infrastructures of knowing 43 Emma Cardwell, Solveig Joks and John Law 5 Science as culture 52 Tereza Stöckelová 6 Technology as culture 61 Paolo Magaudda 7 Finance, valuation, and assetization: techno-economic organization of markets 72 Kean Birch 8 Valuation studies as a frame in STS 79 Kristin Asdal, Liliana Doganova and Maximilian Fochler 9 Feminist science and technology studies 87 Maureen McNeil, Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts, Lucy Suchman and Claire Waterton 10 Gender studies and STS 97 David A. Rubin 11 Race and genetics 107 Emma Kowal 12 Postcolonial STS 116 Itty Abraham and Suman Seth 13 Ethnography 126 Kim Fortun 14 Methods and politics of public engagement and STS 137 Philip Macnaghten 15 Document studies 145 Kristin Asdal 16 Visual studies and STS 154 Regula Valérie Burri 17 Digital methods in STS: continuities, discontinuities, and reconfigurations 164 Janet Vertesi and David Ribes 18 Quali-quantitative (or non-binary) methods 176 Tommaso Venturini 19 Comparisons: framing similarity, framing difference 185 Joe Deville and Michael Guggenheim PART II THEMES 20 Public engagement and participation revisited 195 Matthew Kearnes and Jason Chilvers 21 Social movements, science, and technology: conflict and innovation 205 David J. Hess 22 Citizen science 215 Abby Kinchy 23 Science communication 225 Sarah R. Davies and Maja Horst 24 Making & doing: extending STS knowledge production with expression and travel 234 Teun Zuiderent-Jerak and Gary Lee Downey 25 Controversy studies and analysis 244 Mark Elam 26 User studies and co-creation 254 Torben Elgaard Jensen and Sampsa Hyysalo 27 Risk and disaster in STS 264 Makoto Takahashi 28 Laboratory studies and scientific practice 273 Michael Lynch 29 Indigenous knowledge traditions and science 283 Helen Verran 30 Non-knowledge and ignorance 291 Daniel Lee Kleinman 31 Universities as spaces of change 301 Ruth Müller 32 Indicators and their impact for academia 308 Alex Rushforth and Sarah de Rijcke 33 Time and temporalities in academic research 318 Ulrike Felt 34 Infrastructures 328 Paul N. Edwards, Anne Beaulieu, Christine L. Borgman, Ashley Carse, Steven J. Jackson, Robin Williams and Antti Silvast 35 Innovation 340 Alan Irwin and Sebastian Pfotenhauer 36 Following values in engineering design and conception practices 349 Mylène Tanferri and Dominique Vinck 37 Engineering studies and STS 357 Thomas De Pree and Ryan Hearty 38 Science and technology policy-making 368 Brice Laurent 39 Expertise, legitimacy, and decision-making 377 Göran Sundqvist 40 Regulatory science 387 David Demortain 41 Science advice 397 Jeroen P. van der Sluijs 42 The making of futures in sociotechnical worlds 407 Catharina Landström and Linda Soneryd 43 Responsibility—From ELSI to responsible innovation 416 Stephen Hughes and Jack Stilgoe 44 Care in technoscience 426 Martha Kenney 45 Inequality 435 Melanie Smallman 46 Economic science and economic technology 443 Fabian Muniesa 47 Climate change and STS 451 Silke Beck, Tim Forsyth and Martin Mahony 48 Environment and STS 460 Steven Yearley 49 Energy 471 Clark A. Miller 50 The politics of knowledge in health and biomedicine 481 Steven Epstein, Jaimie Morse and Kellie Owens 51 Digital health 492 Henriette Langstrup and Klaus Hoeyer 52 Digital transformations 501 Annika Richterich and Sally Wyatt 53 Big data, algorithms and artificial intelligence 511 Katja Mayer 54 Digital platforms 521 Adrian Mackenzie PART III STORIES 55 Cities: stories of urban STS 533 Ignacio Farías and Tomás Criado 56 Nanotechnology: STS reflections and interventions 543 Noela Invernizzi and Guillermo Foladori 57 Security and war 553 Brian Balmer 58 STS and outer space: extending the gaze 562 Nina Klimburg-Witjes 59 Pandemics and the politics of knowledge 569 Stephen Hilgartner 60 Pharmaceuticalisation 579 Sergio Sismondo 61 Sensors 587 Jennifer Gabrys 62 STS meets robotics 596 Miquel Domènech and Núria Vallès-Peris