Workshop on Information, Silence, and Sanctuary

信息、沉默和庇护所研讨会

• 批准号: 0424586
• 负责人: David Levy
• 金额: $ 3.55万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-03-15 至 2005-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0424586&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Information; Silence; Sanctuary

This is funding to partially support a workshop to explore the problems of information overload, the fragmentation of attention, and the general busyness and speed up of everyday life. The goal of the meeting is to investigate this imbalance, to begin to map its causes and conditions, and to explore remedial actions. The workshop will be held in Seattle on May 10-12, 2004, and is expected to attract approximately 50 participants from a number of disciplines and walks of life, including the arts and humanities, technology, library and information sciences, economics, education, and religion. Participants will be selected to satisfy a number of criteria, including gender balance and representation of under-represented groups. The workshop will begin with a Public Forum on Information and the Quality of Life at Town Hall in downtown Seattle on the evening of May 10, attended by the workshop invitees and open to the general public at no charge. It will continue with two days of invitation-only meetings on the University of Washington campus. Discussion topics will include: the stress of overload; why are we so overloaded; silence and sanctuary; the role of public institutions in achieving balance; and sanctuary in, or from, cyberspace. There do not appear to have been any other recent meetings on exactly this subject. Partial funding for the workshop is being provided by the MacArthur Foundation, by the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities, and by the Online Computer Library Center.Broader Impacts: The PI's goal is to raise public awareness of the workshop topics and to stimulate broad discussion of them. To these ends, he will write a report summarizing the workshop presentations and its major findings, and will make it available online. In addition, he has secured agreement from the journal Ethics and Information Technology (Kluwer) to publish a special issue devoted to the workshop's findings, that will include a report on the workshop and papers produced by some of the participants. The PI hopes to generate extensive press coverage of the workshop, and plans to organize (in conjunction with the UW Libraries, the UW Henry Art Gallery, and the Seattle Public Library) public meetings at local (Seattle) libraries and museums on the workshop discussion topics, as well as panel(s) on these topics at one or more upcoming ACM conferences.

这笔资金部分用于支持一个研讨会，以探讨信息过载、注意力分散以及日常生活普遍忙碌和速度加快的问题。会议的目标是调查这种不平衡，开始绘制其原因和条件，并探索补救行动。研讨会将于2004年5月10日至12日在西雅图举行，预计将吸引来自多个学科和各行各业的约50名与会者，包括艺术和人文、技术、图书馆和信息科学、经济学、教育和宗教。将选择符合若干标准的参与者，包括性别均衡和任职人数不足的群体。研讨会将于5月10日晚在西雅图市中心的市政厅举行关于信息和生活质量的公众论坛，研讨会受邀者将出席，并向普通公众免费开放。它将继续在华盛顿大学校园举行为期两天的仅限受邀参加的会议。讨论主题将包括：超载的压力；为什么我们如此超载；沉默和避难所；公共机构在实现平衡方面的作用；以及网络空间中或来自网络空间的避难所。最近似乎没有就这个问题举行过任何其他会议。研讨会的部分资金由麦克阿瑟基金会、华盛顿大学辛普森人文中心和在线计算机图书馆中心提供。广泛影响：国际和平协会的目标是提高公众对研讨会主题的认识，并鼓励对这些主题的广泛讨论。为此，他将撰写一份报告，总结研讨会的陈述及其主要结论，并将在网上提供。此外，他还获得了《伦理与信息技术》杂志的同意，将出版一期专门介绍研讨会成果的特刊，其中将包括一份关于研讨会的报告和一些与会者撰写的论文。国际和平协会希望对研讨会进行广泛的新闻报道，并计划(与威斯康星大学图书馆、华盛顿大学亨利美术馆和西雅图公共图书馆一起)在当地(西雅图)图书馆和博物馆组织关于研讨会讨论主题的公开会议，并在即将举行的一次或多次ACM会议上就这些主题举行小组讨论(S)。