SGTR -- Studying Emerging Technologies: Empirical Research in a Speculative Space

SGTR——研究新兴技术：投机空间中的实证研究

• 批准号: 0352000
• 负责人: Stephen Hilgartner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0352000&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGTR; Studying; Emerging; Technologies; Empirical

This Small Grant for Training and Research (SGTR) supports development of a program to train graduate students in study of emerging technologies. Given the rapid pace of technological change in such areas as biotechnology and the new genetics, information technology and computing, and nanotechnology and materials, demand is increasing for a cadre of social scientists and humanists specializing in the study of the social dimensions of emerging technology. The SGTR will create a focus area on emerging technologies in Cornell's existing Ph.D. program in Science & Technology Studies (S&TS). This award will provide support for two students for three years. Students in the new focus area will participate in a new graduate seminar on "Studying Emerging Technologies," take an advanced methods seminar, and take courses, participate in laboratory rotations, or engage in other activities to acquire appropriate technical knowledge. Each will conduct an empirical research project on an emerging technology that requires active engagement with the technical knowledge and help to organize and present an annual campus-wide panel discussion on social dimensions of emerging technologies. The program will also involve organizing an annual research workshop on studying emerging technologies. Unlike studies of any particular new technology, study of "emerging technologies" requires understanding a cluster of related issues: the complex deployment of "revolutionary" discourse; the intertwining of changing practices in laboratories, patent offices, and investment houses; the new "practical cosmologies" developed by technical workers as they embrace and extend technological revolutions; and the ethical complexities of conducting research about emerging technologies while often, because of ethnographic methodology, simultaneously participating in technological development. This project seeks to create a coherent training and research program integrating these issues into a coherent theoretical frame. The direct impact will be to train a particular cohort of two students per year in studying emerging technologies. Its broader impacts will include producing new courses on "studying emerging technologies," "archiving contemporary science," and other topics; sponsoring empirical research projects that, through presentation and publication, will contribute to wider scholarly discourse about emerging technologies; supporting campus-wide discussions between the scientific and technical communities and the science and technology studies community about the social dimensions of emerging technologies; and engaging individual faculty and students in the sciences and engineering in exploration of emerging technologies. Taken together, these activities will create broader awareness of issues associated with emerging technologies and will lead to wider integration of issues from science and technology studies into the work of scientists and engineers.

这项用于培训和研究的小赠款（SGTR）支持开发一项培训研究生研究新兴技术的计划。 鉴于生物技术以及新遗传学，信息技术和计算以及纳米技术和材料等领域的技术变化速度迅速，对社会科学家和人文主义者的干部的需求正在增加，专门研究新兴技术的社会维度。 SGTR将在康奈尔现有博士学位的新兴技术上创建重点领域。科学技术研究计划（S＆TS）。 该奖项将为两名学生提供三年的支持。 新焦点领域的学生将参加一项新的研究生研讨会，涉及“研究新兴技术”，参加高级方法研讨会，参加课程，参加实验室轮换或从事其他活动以获取适当的技术知识。 每个人都将对新兴技术进行实证研究项目，该项目需要积极参与技术知识，并有助于组织并提出有关新兴技术社会维度的年度校园范围内小组讨论。 该计划还将涉及组织有关研究新兴技术的年度研究研讨会。 与对任何特定新技术的研究不同，“新兴技术”的研究需要了解一系列相关问题：“革命”话语的复杂部署；实验室，专利办公室和投资公司不断变化的做法的交织；技术工作者在拥抱和扩展技术革命时开发的新“实用宇宙学”；以及经常由于人种学方法学而进行有关新兴技术的研究的道德复杂性，同时参与了技术发展。 该项目旨在创建一个连贯的培训和研究计划，将这些问题整合到一个连贯的理论框架中。 直接影响是每年培训两名学生的特定队列，以研究新兴技术。 它的更广泛的影响将包括为“研究新兴技术”，“归档当代科学”和其他主题制作新课程；赞助实证研究项目通过演讲和出版，将有助于更广泛的有关新兴技术的学术论述；支持科学和技术社区与科学技术研究社区之间关于新兴技术的社会层面之间的讨论；并吸引个人教师和学生参与科学和工程学的探索。 综上所述，这些活动将使人们对与新兴技术相关的问题提出更广泛的认识，并将导致从科学和技术研究到科学家和工程师的工作的更广泛的问题。