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

这个培训和研究的小额赠款（SGTR）支持开发一个程序，以培养研究生在新兴技术的研究。 鉴于生物技术和新遗传学、信息技术和计算、纳米技术和材料等领域的技术变革步伐迅速，对专门研究新兴技术的社会层面的社会科学家和人文主义者骨干的需求日益增加。 SGTR将在康奈尔大学现有的博士学位中创建一个新兴技术的重点领域。科学技术研究（S TS）。 该奖项将为两名学生提供三年的支持。 在新的重点领域的学生将参加一个新的研究生研讨会“学习新兴技术”，采取先进的方法研讨会，并采取课程，参加实验室轮换，或从事其他活动，以获得适当的技术知识。 每个人都将进行一个关于新兴技术的实证研究项目，需要积极参与技术知识，并帮助组织和提出关于新兴技术社会层面的年度校园小组讨论。 该计划还将涉及组织一个关于研究新兴技术的年度研究研讨会。 与研究任何特定的新技术不同，研究“新兴技术”需要理解一系列相关问题：“革命性”话语的复杂部署;实验室、专利局和投资机构不断变化的实践相互交织;技术工作者在拥抱和扩展技术革命时开发的新“实用宇宙论”;以及对新兴技术进行研究的伦理复杂性，同时由于人种学方法，经常参与技术发展。 该项目旨在创建一个连贯的培训和研究方案，将这些问题纳入一个连贯的理论框架。 直接影响将是每年培训一批学习新兴技术的学生，每批两名。 其更广泛的影响将包括编制关于“研究新兴技术”、“当代科学档案”和其他专题的新课程;赞助实证研究项目，通过介绍和出版，这些项目将有助于更广泛地进行关于新兴技术的学术讨论;支持校园-科学和技术界以及科学和技术研究界就新出现的技术;并让科学和工程领域的教师和学生参与新兴技术的探索。 这些活动合在一起，将使人们更广泛地认识到与新兴技术有关的问题，并将导致科学和技术研究中的问题更广泛地纳入科学家和工程师的工作。

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.