Yesterday, I renamed the category “research” to technoscience. Just now I wrote the opening paragraph for an essay about technoscience in the location of web 2.0. It hit me that this short text also works as an explanation for why I renamed the category research to technoscience. Quoting myself:

Technoscience means a sense that science and technology cannot be separated. That understanding should be quite common among persons having a stake in the concept. I am more uncertain about the location of the concept. I have placed it in various locations in relationship to related words as science and reserach. Recently, the ontology of technoscience has becoming more and more clear to me. I think persons with a stake in the concept should go all the way and kick out ’science’ from the academic throne – ie from our viewpoint. Technoscience is not a relational concept balancing between words as science and research. Some of the things I do is science, but science is only a part of my academic work. I am doing techosciene in the same sense a quantum physician is doing science. Technosicence is not a relative of science, it is a reconstruction of science.