Immediately after President Trump’s inauguration, US federal science agencies began deleting information about climate change from their websites, triggering alarm among scientists, environmental activists, and journalists about the administration’s attempt to suppress information about climate change and promulgate climate denialism. The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) was founded in late 2016 to build a multidisciplinary collaboration of scholars and volunteers who could monitor the Trump administration’s dismantling of environmental regulations and science deemed harmful to its industrial and ideological interests. One of EDGI’s main initiatives has been training activists and volunteers to monitor federal agency websites to identify how the climate-denialist ideology is affecting public debate and science policy. In this paper, we explain how EDGI’s web-monitoring protocols are being incorporated into college curricula and how, in this way, EDGI’s work aligns with STS work on “critical making” and “making and doing.” EDGI’s work shows how STS scholars can establish new modes of engagement with the state that demand a more transparent and trustworthy relationship with the public, creating spaces where the public can define and demand responsible knowledge practices and participate in the process of creating STS inspired forms of careful, collective, and public knowledge construction.

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危机中学习：培训学生监控和解决特朗普领导下的美国联邦机构不负责任的知识建设


特朗普总统就职后，美国联邦科学机构立即开始从其网站上删除有关气候变化的信息，引发科学家、环保活动人士和记者对政府试图压制有关气候变化的信息并宣扬气候否认主义的担忧。环境数据与治理倡议 (EDGI) 成立于 2016 年底，旨在建立学者和志愿者的多学科合作，他们可以监督特朗普政府废除被认为对其工业和意识形态利益有害的环境法规和科学的情况。 EDGI 的主要举措之一是培训活动家和志愿者来监控联邦机构网站，以确定气候否认主义意识形态如何影响公共辩论和科学政策。在本文中，我们解释了 EDGI 的网络监控协议如何纳入大学课程，以及 EDGI 的工作如何与 STS 在“批判性制作”和“制作与实践”方面的工作保持一致。 EDGI 的工作展示了 STS 学者如何与国家建立新的互动模式，要求与公众建立更加透明和值得信赖的关系，创造空间，让公众可以定义和要求负责任的知识实践，并参与创建受 STS 启发的形式的过程。认真的、集体的、公共的知识建设。