hello! apologies for cross posting BUT i am delighted to announce the call for papers for our open panel on the theme of Tech/Money, as part of the 2025 4S conference. the organizers are particularly interested in the work of comm and media studies scholars as related to this theme. Conference date + location: 3-7 September 2025, Seattle WA CFP due date: 31 January 2025 to submit, please go to the 4S submission page and select Open Panel #170 "Tech/Money" https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php 4S 2025/Seattle Open Panel #170: Tech/Money https://www.4sonline.org/accepted_open_panels_seattle.php ABSTRACT: This open panel is themed on “Tech/Money,” highlighting a materialist, political economy approach to science and technology studies. We seek work that emphasizes an understanding of the role played by money, financing, and business structures in the study of technology and science. Moving beyond an economic analysis, this work should highlight the role of capital and finance’s movements, norms, and infrastructures in animating science and technology, inflecting and directing the performance of these spaces and their own ideologies, imaginaries, and infrastructures. We are interested in exploring the constitutive nature of money, finance, funding, and business models in the development of technologies and technosocial/technopolitical landscapes. Some sub-themes are of particular interest include: temporalities of money, finance, and speculation; imaginaries of risk, particularly financialized risk; the role of the “frontier” (geographic, political, intellectual) in the technocapitalist imaginary and its influence on the practices of firms; the connected lives of “money,” “innovation,” and “science”; and the social meanings of money and markets in science. We hope to engage with a variety of methods in this project, with the particular hope that contributors will strongly engage with the local. Dealing unapologetically with ways in which the global logics of technocapital are often chewed up, altered, and digested by the specificities of the local context provides an opportunity to examine the tensions of resistance, collaboration, collusion, adaptation, and imitations, and enmeshment that often accompany these projects. We are keen on work that engages with the business to business sector, which concretizes and makes visible formerly abstract, hidden, or obscured processes and relationships. We are also interested in work that uses corporate grey materials such as annual reports, financial filings, public consultation publications, and other materials from the cultural circuit of capital, such as expos, conferences, industry publications, and other “in-group” communications. please contact the panel chair with any questions M. R. Sauter, University of Maryland, mrsauter@umd.edu -- m.r. sauter he/they assistant professor university of maryland http://oddletters.com/