About
Science, Technology and Society is an interdisciplinary program in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Our aim is to give students, faculty, and others in the community the opportunity to explore the wide ranges of social impacts of emerging technologies and new scientific discoveries, using the diverse approaches of the liberal arts, social sciences, and humanities. Digital information technologies, new communication technologies and new scientific innovations are rapidly transforming traditional ways of working, learning, and living. Key STS areas include Societal Impacts of Nanotechnology, Gaming, Education, Bio-health, Surveillance, Mobile Technologies, E-society and Computer-mediated communication.
The Science, Technology and Society Program at UT Austin began in the spring of 1999 as the Technology, Literacy and Culture program. The name was changed in 2003 to reflect exciting growth nationwide and internationally in the formal study of the social impacts of technology and scientific innovation. An important part of our program continues to be issues of the digital divide and educational innovation, as well as impacts of culture on the emergence and spread of technological innovation. The Technology, Literacy and Culture Program founders were professors Lester Faigley, Sam Wilson, and Peg Syverson.
The STS team includes
- Elizabeth Keating, Director
Professor, Department of Anthropology
- Executive Committee:
- Lester Faigley
- M. A. Syverson
- Samuel Wilson
- Marko Monteiro, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Christoph Engemann, (Post)Doctoral Researcher
- Chiho Sunakawa, STS Research Assistant