In recent years, digital technologies have not only given rise to new sociocultural realities but have begun to profoundly alter the ways in which knowledge is produced, validated, and disseminated. Against this backdrop, this workshop explores the intersection of varieties of science and varieties of digital capitalism through a comparative and interdisciplinary lens. Bringing together perspectives from STS, economics, and Japanese studies, along with insights from practice, the workshop seeks to open-up a productive dialogue on how emerging technologies, digital capitalism, and scientific cultures co-constitute one another. The two-day workshop is jointly hosted by the DIJ and RWTH Aachen University. The sessions on March 12 (“Digital Technology in Context”) will be live-streamed. They will examine the co-evolution of digital technologies, digital capitalism, and scientific cultures through institutional, sociocultural, and epistemic contexts — with a specific focus on Japan. Details and registration here