Dissertation Research: Warning--This Computer May be Hazardous to your Health: Debating Occupational and Environmental Health in the High-Tech Industry

这篇论文的研究项目探讨了在加州圣克拉拉县硅谷的工人和社区成员所提出的健康主张的争议。本研究的目的是通过对知识生产和索赔实践的分析，检查主要利益集团提出的各种经常相互矛盾的索赔。研究重点是在工作场所和周围社区有毒污染的识别、测量和处理中的文化、社会和政治冲突。研究设计采用多种定性方法来进行“多地点人种志”。本研究的方法包括：深度访谈，包括结构化和非正式访谈，参与者观察，档案研究和内容分析。数据将通过使用社会世界框架来组织，该框架检查在特定领域活跃的所有关键个人和社会团体之间的互动。分析方法包括扎根理论技术，其中研究问题被修改为数据收集和分析进行。

This dissertation research project examines contestation over the health claims made by workers and community members in Silicon Valley located in Santa Clara County, California. The aim of this research is to examine the diverse and often contradictory claims made by key interest groups through an analysis of knowledge production and claimsmaking practices. The research focuses on the cultural, social, and political conflicts in the identification, measurement, and treatment of toxic contamination in the workplace and in the surrounding communities. The research design employs a variety of qualitative methodologies to conduct a "multisite ethnography." Methodologies for this study include: in-depth interviews,both structured and informal, participant observation, archival research, and content analysis. The data will be organized by using a social worlds framework which examines the interaction between all key individuals and social groups active around the specific arena in question. Methods of analysis include techniques of grounded theory, in which research questions are modified as data collection and analysis are conducted.