Feminist Technoscience
Within international feminist research strongly linked to the dominant technical fields of our era: information technology, biotechnology and material technology, there is a widespread understanding of the production of knowledge and technology as processes that take place in complex and distributed systems. In other words, in this late modern time knowledge is generated in overlapping contexts of universities, companies and other regional, national and international actors. The term technoscience connotes this understanding of the production of knowledge and technology. The way in which technoscience is defined by internationally leading researchers such as Donna Haraway raises interesting questions about transgression of boundaries between science, technology, politics and society, and between humans and non-humans, the processes of hybridisation between people and machines (cyborg theories), etc.
Open Peer Review
We are discussing Open Peer Review in this article.
Conceptual Cloud
The conceptual cloud used in this journal is a tag cloud. A tag is a keyword describing an entity of knowledge. Tagging is non hierarchical and the tags is not picked from a classification system. Every person who tags a knowledge entity has his/her own classification system, mostly unconscious. Tag clouds are visual representations of a group of tags, weighted after occurrence. The bigger a word in the cloud, the more keywords have been created with this particular tag. Tag clouds are not an entirely new phenomena. Traditionally they are known as a weighted list in the field of visual design. The new is this particular appearance in conjunction with folksonomized web sites. A tag is comparable to a table of contents. The main difference is that a table of contents is hierarchical, while a tag cloud is flat, non-hierarchical. The display order of the tags is generally alphabetical, thus making it possible to find a tag both by alphabetical order and by its popularity. Clicking on a tag will generally lead to a collection of items marked with this tag.
Current conceptual cloud of IJFT