A bilingual research reader

雙語研究讀者

Taiwan STS Reader

臺灣 STS Reader

A concise, curated entry point to scholarship on science, technology, and society in and about Taiwan.

以精要、策展的方式,進入關於臺灣科學、科技與社會的研究。

Pilot theme

試作主題

Sociotechnical Imaginaries

社會技術想像

This pilot theme brings together Taiwan-focused work that uses sociotechnical imaginaries directly, alongside related studies of collective futures, infrastructure, and technology-led development.

本試作主題匯集直接運用社會技術想像的臺灣研究,以及討論集體未來、基礎設施與科技發展的相關對話。

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The making of power shortage: The sociotechnical imaginary of nationalist high modernism and its pragmatic rationality in electricity planning in taiwan

Shows how electricity planning made power shortage a public fact through calculations, indicators, and a nationalist high-modernist vision of development.

說明電力規劃如何透過計算、指標與國族主義式極度現代主義的發展願景,將缺電建構為公共事實。

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Data reporting as care infrastructure: assembling ART registries in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea

Compares ART registries to show that data reporting becomes care infrastructure only when professional reflection and public-health action turn records into better practice.

比較輔助生殖登錄制度,指出資料通報唯有經由專業反思與公共衛生行動轉化為實作,才能成為照護基礎設施。

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Hsinchu technopolis: A sociotechnical imaginary of modernity in Taiwan?

Reads Hsinchu Science Park as an imagined modern Taiwan, tracing how semiconductors, planned space, and regional inequalities shaped a technopolis.

將新竹科學園區視為被想像的現代臺灣,追蹤半導體、規劃空間與區域不平等如何共同形塑科技都市。

Editorial approach

編輯方法

A portable scholarly reader

可移植的學術讀者

Each entry is kept in a structured bilingual record, so the reader can grow now and later move to a collaborative publishing platform without rebuilding its research foundation.

每一筆資料皆以結構化雙語紀錄保存,使本讀者能逐步發展,並可在日後遷移至協作出版平台,而不必重建研究基礎。

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