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Organizations, Science, and Expertise

Mon, August 10, 8:00 to 9:30am, TBA

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

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Organizations are integral to scientific work across all domains. They aggregate resources (human and non-human), help coordinate action, and structure the production and legitimation of knowledge claims. Organizations bring about innovation but also resist it; foster cross-disciplinary interactions but can stifle collaborations; harbor rule-bound cultures that also routinize risk and mistakes. They serve as brokers, intermediaries between governments and professionals, experts and the lay public, policy makers and policy users. Organizations are actants, shaping our social imaginaries about what is valuable, trustworthy, legitimate. They are also “black boxes” whose inner workings remain of enduring sociological interest. The five papers on this panel examine how organizations shape the adoption of new technologies, interactions between humans and machines, and how data travels between research labs and the public.

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