Information Technologies, Social Movements and Civil Society

这是一项规划赠款，旨在协助筹备关于信息技术、文化和社会机构的多学科研究。 该项目的目的是确定社会背景以及通信和空间信息技术对一个抵制在发展中世界热带沿海地区扩大养虾业的非政府组织和基层组织全球联盟的形成、战略和效力的影响。将同时审查该行业为打击全球抵抗网络的活动所作的努力。 规划会议将汇集参与信息技术、社会、知识研究的社会科学家和自然科学家以及积极的非政府组织代表。 首席研究员将在拉丁美洲进行虾养殖试点研究，以补充亚洲的研究。 研讨会将在圣巴巴拉的加州大学举行，将使项目合作者和调查人员能够设计一个研究方案，研究新信息技术如何影响抗性的形成和维持以及这一案例研究行业的行业网络。 由此产生的研究应该是有价值的，以促进我们的理解如何全球利益集团联盟使用新技术来影响政策和社会实践。

This is a planning grant to assist in the preparation of multidisciplinary research on information technology, culture and social institutions. The aim of the project is to determine the social context and impacts of communications and spatial information technologies on the formation, strategies and effectiveness of a global coalition of non-governmental and grass-roots organizations resisting the expansion of the shrimp farming industry in tropical coastal zones of the developing world. A parallel examination will be done of the industry's efforts to counter the activities of the global resistance network. The planning conference will bring together social and natural scientists involved in research on information technologies, society, acquaculture, and representatives of activist NGOs. The lead researcher will conduct pilot research in Latin America on shrimp acquaculture to complement research in Asia. The workshop, to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will allow project collaborators and investigators to design a program of research on how new information technologies affect the formation and maintenance of resistance as well as industry networks in this one case-study industry. The resulting research should be valuable in advancing our understanding of how global coalitions of interest groups use new technology to influence policy and social practice.