Wen-yuan Lin

Introduction
November 20, 2021

We Have Never Been Latecomers!? Making Knowledge Spaces for East Asian Technosocial Practices

Famously, Bruno Latour (1993) argued that “we have never been modern” and proposed instead that modernity balances or...
Research Article
November 18, 2021

Problematizing the Experts: The One-Dimensional Engineering Understanding of the Users and Its Contextual Frameworks

What is engineers' conception of their users and the public? And what makes it so difficult to be changed? Studies in...
book review
November 18, 2021

Making Community Work: A Case Study of Lin-Bien

Making Community Work: A Case Study of Lin-Bien will inspire scholars interested in the tangled history of technology...
Forum
November 16, 2021

The Stickiness of Knowing: Translation, Postcoloniality, and STS

“Provincializing STS” is one essay in a short continuing line of practical intellectual experiments that seek to...
Forum
November 16, 2021

Provincializing Sts: Postcoloniality, Symmetry, and Method

STS is not short of studies on postcoloniality. Collectively the discipline has explored how technoscience...
Research Note
November 15, 2021

Where Is East Asia in STS?

The international spread of STS has reshaped the discipline in many ways, pushing it from its original core focus on...