Interestedin talking more about my theory, I used my landline to call SherryTurkle, an MIT professor of the social studies of science andtechnology.

Develop an argument of your own that makes sense of what you see as important tendencies and debates in social studies of science around your chosen theme.

Kate Ratliff, who studies social attitudes at the University of Florida, Gainesville, says that it can seem as if there are two camps in a field—those who care about open science and those who don't.