I am very pleased to share that my new article, “Sociotechnical imaginaries and enabling infrastructures: Türkiye’s digitally mediated pandemic response,” has now been published online in Medical Humanities. The article asks a question that reaches beyond the specific context of the COVID-19 pandemic: What makes innovation possible, and under which social, institutional and infrastructural conditions […]
Category: Science, Technology and Society
STS Encounters in the Mediterranean: Looking Forward to STS-CAT 2027
I am very happy and honored to have been invited as a keynote speaker to the 1st STS-CAT International Conference, “STS Encounters in the Mediterranean,” organized by the Associació Catalana d’Estudis de la Ciència i la Tecnologia (STS-CAT). The conference will take place from 3–5 February 2027 at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans in Barcelona. I […]
Epistemic Passages: Looking Forward to GWMT 2026 in Prague
I’m very happy to be heading to Prague soon for the GWMT Annual Conference “Epistemic Passages: Knowledge in Translation”, taking place from 9–11 September 2026. I’m really delighted about the invitation and very much looking forward to the conference and the discussions in Prague. The overarching theme of knowledge in translation resonates strongly with questions […]
Teaching a PhD Seminar on Digitalization, AI and Welfare at the University of Neuchâtel
I am very happy to be teaching the PhD seminar Digitalization, AI and Welfare: An STS Perspective on Social Work at the University of Neuchâtel this coming semester. The seminar is part of the doctoral teaching context in Current Issues in Social Work and is open to PhD researchers from the ITTS (Institut transdisciplinaire de […]
New Publication: Neurotechnology through the lens of users…
Following an inspiring workshop on neurotechnologies in 2022 at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK, Faculty of Engineering, University of Freiburg), which brought together researchers, practitioners, artists, and technology developers from diverse backgrounds, we have continued our discussions on the societal, ethical, and experiential dimensions of neurotechnology. I am delighted that our collaborative paper has […]
Call for submissions: Working Papers Cultural and Sociotechnical Studies
I am very happy to announce that submissions (in German or English) to the series Working Papers kultur- und techniksoziologische Studien (Working Papers Cultural and Sociotechnical Studies) are welcome at any time. All papers are published open access via an OJS platform, receive a DOI, and are embedded in the German sociological research infrastructure SocioHub. […]
ICIRR 2026 Call for Contributions: Innovation in Rural Regions
I would like to draw attention to the Call for Contributions of the International Conference on Innovation in Rural Regions (ICIRR), which will take place in Siegen (Germany) from 13–15 September 2026. I am pleased to be part of the Program Committee for this conference and to invite colleagues in my network to consider submitting […]
Exploring the Multiple Ontologies of Steel – Internal Workshop
As part of our DFG-funded research project MediCluster, we’re organizing an internal workshop titled:“Çeliğin Çoklu Ontolojileri: Sirkülasyon, Bilgi ve Sosyo-Teknik Tahayüller” (eng. “The Multiple Ontologies of Steel: Circulation, Knowledge, and Socio-Technical Imaginaries”). Together with colleagues and guest expert Dursun Baş (Istanbul Policy Center – Sabancı University – Stiftung Mercator Initiative), we’ll explore how steel is […]
New review published: Claudia Liebelt’s Istanbul Appearances
I’m delighted to share my book review of Claudia Liebelt’s Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey, now published in Contemporary Sociology. The book opens a window onto Istanbul’s “beautyscapes”- salons, clinics, everyday routines—showing how beauty work is tightly woven into class mobility, gendered respectability, and urban transformation. Rather than […]
Published in Nature: Children must be co-researchers, too
I’m thrilled to share that my latest correspondence article is out in Nature. In it, I argue that children’s meaningful, age-appropriate participation should be central to the development and evaluation of health technologies. Children should be involved in health technologies not merely as “users,” but as citizen co-researchers. The article is available here: Şahinol M. […]