Program in Science, Technology, and Society

Eight from MIT awarded 2016 Fulbright grants

Grantees will spend the 2016-2017 academic year conducting research abroad.

June 16, 2016

“Algorithms, Identity, and Society” was held before a capacity audience at MIT’s Bartos Theater, and sponsored by MIT’s noted program in Science, Technology, and Society.

Identity theft?

Automation helps us in many ways, but does it steal our sense of self?

April 8, 2016

“The question I was beginning to ask was: How is it that Africa is not accounted for in technology studies?” says Clapperton Mavhunga. “How is it we are only accounted for in our social history and our suffering as victims? That’s when this inquiry that took me to MIT began.”

Stealth technology

Clapperton Mavhunga’s work uncovers an Africa where technology is abundant and sophisticated.

March 2, 2016

People building their own devices for transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) have often invested substantial time looking at academic research on the subject. “They do look to scientific papers and in a lot of ways they do follow scientific precedent,” PhD student Anna Wexler says. “In other ways, they do their own thing.”

Stimulus plan?

Interest is growing in brain stimulation devices — and regulating them may prove tricky.

December 18, 2015

Prize-winner Sarah Schwartz SM '15 is now a journalist at Science News.

Sarah Schwartz SM '15 wins first Obermayer Prize for science writing

MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing and Program in Science, Technology, and Society honor Schwartz for her essay on the history of synthetic penicillin.

December 4, 2015

Illuminating urban planning

Jennifer Light studies how Cold War military analysis and New Deal resource analysis shaped cities.

November 23, 2015

Deborah K. Fitzgerald, professor of the history of technology in the MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society

Deborah Fitzgerald receives lifetime achievement award from the Agricultural History Society

November 10, 2015

David Mindell and the cover of “Our Robots, Ourselves” (Viking/Penguin)

Robots and us

Should cars be fully driverless? No, says an MIT engineer and historian.

October 13, 2015

3 Questions: Jennifer Light on new media and democracy

MIT historian of technology discusses new work examining “digital citizenship.”

July 13, 2015

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