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                                                              Editors’ Note



     A New Triennium (2016-18)



    With this issue, Tecnoscienza celebrates the beginning of its third
three-year cycle. The journal has been increasingly consolidating in the
last six years and we believe this is a valuable result, especially as the
journal represents an example of alternative and independent scientific
publishing practices. Its release is still made possible by the commitment
and energy of an emerging generation of researchers, who have invested
in an independent open access peer-reviewed journal released under the
Creative Commons licence.
    As a spontaneous intellectual project developed outside the countries
that are “usual suspects” in the STS field, we have been delighted to see
the journal growing and its readers multiplying. Tecnoscienza is still the
only Italian academic journal specifically devoted to social studies of
science and technology, as well as possibly the only one coming from a
southern European country. This positioning offers the journal a rather
unique perspective in the international landscape and our aim for the
next years is to go on developing such a distinctive standpoint within the
STS international academic community.
    Another characteristic of the journal we aim to foster is the hybridiza-
tion and cross-fertilization of more established STS approaches with
emerging perspectives and viewpoints. The current double special issue,
which explores the notion of “digital circulation” by building a bridge
between STS and media studies, is an example of such a kind of intersec-
tion and cross-fertilization.
    In the next three years, we plan to strengthen our position as an inter-
national platform that offers a space for novel intellectual inter and cross-
disciplinary thinking. We will pursue this twofold goal by promoting a
number of special issues dedicated to emerging topics in contemporary
STS. In the last three years, our experience with monographic issues has
been extremely positive and we are pleased with the numerous interna-
tional contributions we have hosted so far. The current double special
issue is also an example of this success. The call received almost forty

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contributions from all over the world, while about only one-quarter of
them are actually being published in the two issues. For this result, we
have to thank the guest editors and external anonymous reviewers, whose
voluntary contributions made this and previous volumes of the journal
possible.
    In the perspective of a more incisive positioning of the journal both
internationally and in interdisciplinary terms, we inaugurate a new section
evocatively titled “Crossing Boundaries”. This section is a hybrid itself,
being to some extent the merger of two previous sections: “Cartography”
and “Debates”. In this new section, invited contributors belonging to
different countries and disciplinary backgrounds will debate around
common topics, questioning at the same time existing scientific catego-
ries, disciplinary boundaries, and STS geographies.
    In a similar vein, we are establishing a new group of international
scholars who will act as correspondents from other countries, signaling
the most stimulating and thought-provoking volumes to be reviewed. The
correspondents, who will be made effective from the next issue, will en-
hance and refresh our goal to engage with the STS debate of other coun-
tries and to offer in-depth analyses (in English) of STS books written in
non-English languages. On the basis of the journal’s alternation policy,
this new three-year cycle also inaugurates a new Coordination Board, as
well as future plans for further expansion of the Editorial and Advisory
Board. Once more, this represents the journal’s geographical grounding,
as members of both the Coordination and the Editorial Board are based
in Universities across Europe.
    Six years are just gone and we are ready to engage in new challenges
for the next three. In spite of all the hard work, time flies when you are
having fun.

    Attila Bruni, Paolo Magaudda and Manuela Perrotta
