{"638048":{"#nid":"638048","#data":{"type":"news","title":"LMC\u0027s Nassim Parvin Among Recipients of STS Infrastructure Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENassim Parvin, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(LMC), is one of 15 scholars awarded the STS Infrastructure Award from the Society for Social Studies of Science for their work on the journal \u003Cem\u003ECatalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award is issued annually to \u0026quot;recognize exemplary initiative to build and maintain infrastructure supporting science and technology studies,\u0026quot; according to the society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Now five years into publication, the journal has become an invaluable part of the infrastructure of the field,\u0026quot; the organization said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;The decision of the committee was based on the outstanding work done by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECatalyst\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eeditorial collective in support of theoretically inventive and methodologically creative feminist scholarship that spans the social sciences, humanities, and arts\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/jafarinaimi\u0022\u003EParvin \u003C\/a\u003Eis\u0026nbsp;one of the\u0026nbsp;three lead editors for the journal, which \u0026quot;serves as a distinctive forum for both emerging and well-established scholars to publish interdisciplinary work.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;This year marks the 5th anniversary of the publication of Catalyst\u0026rsquo;s first issue, and we are proud of the journal\u0026rsquo;s contributions to feminist technoscience scholarship and are delighted to receive this recognition,\u0026quot; the journal\u0026#39;s editorial board said in a joint statement posted to the society\u0026#39;s website. \u0026quot;We are committed to continuing to be a catalyzing component of this vital field!\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EParvin is director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/designstudio.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EDesign and Social Justice Studio\u003C\/a\u003E, an interdisciplinary project focused on the intersection of design and \u0026quot;democratic forms of social interaction.\u0026quot; Her research focuses on \u0026quot;the ethical and political dimensions of design and technology, especially as related to questions of democracy and justice.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Catalyst,\u0022 an online journal exploring intersections of feminism, social theory, and technoscience, was recognized for its groundbreaking work."}],"uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-08-18 20:16:03","changed_gmt":"2020-08-21 19:42:07","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-08-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-08-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405751":{"id":"405751","type":"image","title":"Nassim JafariNaimi","body":null,"created":"1449254153","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:53","changed":"1475895129","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:09","alt":"Nassim JafariNaimi","file":{"fid":"76101","name":"nassimjafarinaimiweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nassimjafarinaimiweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nassimjafarinaimiweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":147361,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/nassimjafarinaimiweb.jpg?itok=C8u8Hsia"}}},"media_ids":["405751"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167943","name":"School of Literature Media and Communication"},{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Pearson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nmichael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}