Our papers for the 4S/EASST Congress. Alternative Actors

With this post we start a serie of publications where we want to show the short abstract about our several contributions to the 4S/EASST Congress (the biggest STS congress around the world), so you could read the topic about our submissions (all of them are in review process so finally,  they could be not accepted). By the way, you can see our track status here.

Today, we show the third proposal, titled: "Alternative actors and their relevance for emergency warning systems".

The paper propose to debate on the performance by other means of alternative actors during an emergency crisis; focusing on the warning system's, on the moment before design proposal and on uses given to content (incl. visual) on virtual platforms through co-design in (open)knowledge proposals.

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Our papers for the 4S/EASST Congress. Modes of Existence

With this post we start a serie of publications where we want to show the short abstract about our several contributions to the 4S/EASST Congress (the biggest STS congress around the world), so you could read the topic about our submissions (all of them are in review process so finally,  they could be not accepted). By the way, you can see our track status here.

Today, we show the last one, titled: "Scenarios as modes of existence in knowledge about biological threats"

Scenarios to think biological threats are modes of existence. They are truth-making procedure. So, they operate building states of exception; they produce images of exception and; life is considered the subject and the object of its monitoring. Ebola pandemics will be our empirical work.


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Our papers for the 4S/EASST Congress. Panic

With this post we start a serie of publications where we want to show the short abstract about our several contributions to the 4S/EASST Congress (the biggest STS congress around the world), so you could read the topic about our submissions (all of them are in review process so finally,  they could be not accepted). By the way, you can see our track status here.

Today, we show the second one, titled: "Between Panic and Panic – Fear as a Dangerous Balance in Epidemic Governance".

This paper wants to argue that a regime of pandemic preparedness can only be installed in the form of fear as a pivotal point between two forms of panic that brings the present and the future under a mix of different forms of control by the individual and society. Observations from various focus groups will shed light on the construction and management of fear under a horizon of global pandemic threats.

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Our papers for the 4S/EASST Congress. Images

With this post we start a serie of publications where we want to show the short abstract about our several contributions to the 4S/EASST Congress (the biggest STS congress around the world), so you could read the topic about our submissions (all of them are in review process so finally,  they could be not accepted). By the way, you can see our track status here.

Today, we show the first one, titled: "Images and State of Emergency in Biological Treats".

Short Abstract: Images have accompanied the social from its origin.We want to reclaim their original status throughout the concept of State of Emergency. We will show some images from recent epidemics (zika, ebola...) understood as scenarios in order to unfold what is an state of emergency and their implications.

Next post you could read about the second proposal, about fear and panic!

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Track #58 to the 4S/EASST Congress Closed!

Yesterday, call for papers to the 4S/Congress was closed. As we posted some weeks ago, POBICS isBiorisk Intelligence otherwise: Scenarios, Visual Knowledge and new Mechanisms of Surveillance". We have received several papers (all of them so interesting!), and now is moment to revise and to correct them, and then we will send the acceptance/refuse mail.

As the rules of congress says, accepted papers we will show in the track (only abstract), and then we will begin to post here some ideas about our proposals, events and whatever thing related with the congress till their celebration on august and september. (Click here to go to the track webpage of the congress, our track is the number #58).
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If you have send any paper to our track, keep patience and we hope see you in a few months at the congress!
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