The Program in Science, Technology, and Society |

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Web Name: The Program in Science, Technology, and Society |

WebSite: http://sts.stanford.edu

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The Program in Science, Technology, and Society is a dynamic interdisciplinary major that provides students with a liberal arts education for the twenty-first century. Two New Concentrations - Catastrophic Risks and Solutions (CRS) and Social Dynamics of Data and Information Science, Technology and Society launched two new concentrations
 for 2020-2021:Catastrophic Risks and Solutions (CRS)Students in this concentration will explore how natural, technological, economic, political, and social dimensions of catastrophic risks interact. Social Dynamics of Data and Information (SDDI)Students in this concentration will learn to analyze data and information as the products of social choices both constrained and created by the costs, limits, and opportunities inherent in technology.Click on each concentration to learn more.  Big tobacco focuses on the facts to hide the truth: an algorithmic exploration of courtroom tropes and taboosThe language used by attorneys in tobacco litigation reveals key elements of the strategies deployed by cigarette makers and their courtroom opponents. According to industry lawyers, for example, smokers ‘passed away’ but were never ‘killed’; they always had the ‘ability to quit’ but were not ‘addicted’. Jurors, tobacco attorneys claim, should focus on the individual ‘facts’ of the case but not on the larger ‘truth’ about the industry. Language is, per Bolinger, ‘a loaded weapon,’ which means that words are not innocent conveyers of meaning. There is a subtle micropolitics in human speech, expressed in the kinds of words chosen by one side or another to deploy or to avoid. Robert Proctor explores...Read more about our featured publication  In my STS classes, I’ve learned the importance of considering a situation from various perspectives including the social, historical, cultural, technical, and economical. Using this STS mindset, I’ve been able to think about situations more critically and develop more nuanced arguments. Molly Mitchel, STS Student and Peer Advisor

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