Choice: Paper or Presentation
You are to choose between completing a paper or a presentation on the intersection between science and technology studies and some aspect of the covid-19 pandemic. Throughout the semester, the readings, videos, and assignments revolve around two themes: the history of the subdiscipline and case studies. This material ought to provide enough of a foundation for you to choose a topic.
Examples of topics might include the development of the vaccine, laboratory politics in terms of production/contracts/distribution, the development and access to personal protective equipment, development of social media applications (whether for tracing, for social relationship development, or for entrepreneurial needs, for example), or various areas where the social world adapted and modified socio-political and economic using science and technology in some fashion.
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