What is context and how to deal with it? The context issue has been a key concern in
Science and Technology Studies (STS). This is linked to the understanding that science is …

Experiment, instrumentation, and procedures of measurement, the body of practices and
technologies forming the technical culture of science, have received at most a cameo …

Since the early 1980s, actor-network theory has contested the status of “context” as an
explanatory resource. Expressions and concepts such as “transformations of social …

In their 'Critical Questions for Big Data', danah boyd and Kate Crawford warn:'Taken out of
context, Big Data loses its meaning'. In this short commentary, I contextualize this claim …

Most of us who are scientists have enjoyed climbing this ladder as part of our education. We
revel in the lofty view from the top. Unfortunately, many students do not see the connection …

The notion of context-sensitive science is put forward as a way to approach what might be
meant by interactive social science. Universities are now operating in a social environment …

Contextualism is being looked to as a framework within which psychology may advance,
stripped of needless mechanism and needless philosophical inconsistencies. An …

The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has left a turbulent wake
in the philosophy of science. This book recognizes the need to re-open the debate about the …

If one listens to scientists and reads editorials in Science and Nature, changes in science,
and in particular changes for the worse, appear to be going on· everywhere. One commonly …

The anthropological approach is the central focus of this study. Laboratories are looked
upon with the innocent eye of the traveller in exotic lands, and the societies found in these …