The following special topics represent both the continuation of discussions in 4S, and opportunities for future research. Open submissions on other areas of research, theory, and policy are welcome at the 1997 meeting, as are panels organized and submitted by participants. Business plays new roles in creating, distributing, and applying new knowledge. But industrial, government and virtual organizations have also been involved, and are taking on new salience. Science and technology have always been transnational activities.
Ordinary people make, use, misuse, or re-interpret scientific and technological information.
They are also places where science and technology are used in processes of conservation and preservation. Scholarship which addresses these, or other, issues in museum studies is invited. This special theme will feature discussions on the impacts science studies approaches have on disciplines and the academy. Book publishers will be contacted directly for copies. Book authors need not be 4S members, and self-nominations will be accepted.