Shaping the Network Society: The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace

塑造网络社会：网络空间公共领域的未来

• 批准号: 0002547
• 负责人: Douglas Schuler
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-15 至 2002-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0002547&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Shaping; Network; Society; Future; Public

The symposium "Shaping the Network Society: The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace" held on May 20 - 23, 2000 at the University of Washington in Seattle was highly successful. Over 350 people from over 20 countries from a wide variety of academic and other disciplines attended the conference. This symposium helped to identify and give voice to a large body of interdisciplinary work. It helped reveal a rich vein of new research topics and a burgeoning community of researchers eager to work on them: organizers received over 100 submissions in response to our call for abstracts. Perhaps most importantly the community was in good measure a younger one; a new generation of researchers is stepping up to address these insurgent issues. The objective of this support is to disseminate the findings of the symposium to a large number of people. Since this was among the first and most notable of conferences devoted to these themes it is particularly important to make the results available to other researchers. At the same time it is equally important to reach out to non-specialists and the general public. Computer technology is rapidly spreading into all sectors of society and "ordinary" people are intensely interested in how they can shape technology and how technology can shape them. This work will help people understand challenges and opportunities of the Internet and other communication technology and how they might themselves play a part in its ongoing development. The organization plans to build on this work and to further expand the awareness of this new work in many ways. The major tasks covered by this proposal are: (1) to develop a book based on invited panelist papers; (2) to develop a book based on research papers; (3) to develop special sections in journals (particularly the Communications of the ACM); (4) to add current and previous CPSR/DIAC submissions to the web site; and (5) to develop material for the CPSR Newsletter and an editorial for print and electronic distribution. This support helps to leverage a strong volunteer effort.

2000年5月20日至23日在西雅图华盛顿大学举行的“塑造网络社会：网络空间公共领域的未来”研讨会取得了巨大成功。来自20多个国家、各种学术和其他学科的350多人参加了会议。这次研讨会有助于确定并发表大量跨学科工作的意见。它帮助揭示了丰富的新研究主题，以及渴望研究这些主题的新兴研究人员社区：组织者收到了100多份响应我们的摘要征集的提交。也许最重要的是，这个社区在很大程度上是一个年轻的社区；新一代的研究人员正在加紧解决这些叛乱问题。这种支助的目的是向许多人传播专题讨论会的调查结果。由于这是专门讨论这些主题的第一次和最著名的会议之一，因此将结果提供给其他研究人员尤为重要。与此同时，与非专业人士和公众接触也同样重要。计算机技术正迅速蔓延到社会的各个部门，“普通”人们对他们如何影响技术以及技术如何影响他们非常感兴趣。这项工作将帮助人们了解互联网和其他通信技术的挑战和机遇，以及他们自己如何在其持续发展中发挥作用。本组织计划以这项工作为基础，以许多方式进一步扩大对这项新工作的认识。本提案的主要任务是：(1)根据邀请的小组成员论文编写一本书；（二）以研究论文为基础编写成书；(3)在期刊（特别是美国计算机学会通讯）上开设专门的栏目；(4)在网站上添加当前和以前提交的CPSR/DIAC文件；(5)为CPSR通讯和一篇社论编写材料，用于印刷和电子发行。这种支持有助于调动志愿者的积极性。