Contents

There are many ways to organize the materials and approaches that characterize digitalSTS. During the workshops that led to this volume, participants identified three themes that came to organize our inquiry: theory, methods and making. We therefore solicited papers that either a) contributed theoretical insights in the case study style typical of classic STS, b) contributed to discussions of methodological explorations about the digital, or that engaged digital inquiry techniques and technics themselves, and c) perhaps most inventively, engaged in the making and design of artifacts as a form of inquiry in and of itself. Distinct groups of editors evaluated and shepherded contributions within each section. We have always encouraged pluralism, however, and expect that there are many ways to explore the contributed pieces to digitalSTS. We here offer the original tagged themes — and other important thematic resonances of central importance to STS as a field; each constitute a unique pathways through the volume’s heterogenous contributions.