Jensen, T. E., Munk, A. K., Madsen, A. K., & Birkbak, A. (2014). Expanding the visual register of STS. I A. Carusi, A. S. Hoel, T. Webmoor, & S. Woolgar (red.), Visualization in the Age of Computerization (s. 226-230). Routledge. Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society 356 Expanding the Visual Registers of STS Torben Elgaard Jensen, Anders Kristian Munk, Anders Koed Madsen and Andreas Birkbak STS is about localization. With that contention Galison sets to work expanding our visual research repertoire. It is thus hardly surprising that he gives pride of place to a practice that is renowned for its ability to capture the local in its richness and depth—namely, that of making films. Indeed, one wonders why the century-old tradition of visual anthropology is only now arousing an appetite among STS scholars that have in other respects been early adopters of ethnographic methods in their pursuit of situated knowledge. Film, Galison argues, offers a “new register in STS” that will complement texts in achieving a “more dimensional, denser understanding of the world of science, technology and medicine.” It is hard to disagree. At least we should be susceptible to the argument since, as Galison writes, we know what kind of essential work the visual can do for science and technology, work that could never be accomplished by texts alone. Why should our research practices be any different in this respect? We have the best of inspirations readily at hand; what remains is to move from first-order to second-order engagements with the visual. If one takes that idea seriously, however, it becomes interesting to ask if filmmaking is the only way to achieve this. If you consider the multiple roles of the visual in other scientific practices that have been teased out by first-order STS scholarship, filmmaking seems like an unnecessarily narrow banner to be rallying under. We want to suggest that other venerable visual practices from the first-order catalogue might equally deserve to be taken up by second-order visual science and technology studies (VSTS).