Proposal for Two NSF Workshops: Technology-Mediated Social Participation

如今，以技术为媒介的社会参与已成为数百万人的一种生活方式，他们通过手机给家人和朋友发短信，在Twitter上跟踪领导人和名人，更新Facebook页面，告诉别人他们的活动，并与众多门户网站互动。使用这些技术的用户范围很广，从10岁以下的孩子到退休人员。这项建议将制定一个智力框架和研究议程，以研究和促进社会参与国家优先事项，如保健、教育、能源、救灾、社区安全和环境保护。两个研讨会将涵盖六个将激发研究挑战的主题：(a)理论整合；(b)社会资本、社会智力和有效行动；(c)可共享的基础设施、道德和保护；(d)激励设计；(e)研究生培训；(f)政府使用社交媒体的独特挑战。讲习班的主要产出将是一份报告，其中详细说明每个专题领域的挑战和成果。

Technology mediated social participation is now a way of life for millions of people as they text family and friends via cell phones, track leaders and celebrities on Twitter, update their Facebook page to tell others about their activities, and interact with numerous web portals. Use of these technologies spans a broad range of users, from kids under ten years old to retirees.This proposal will develop an intellectual framework and research agenda for studying and facilitating social participation for national priorities, such as health care, education, energy, disaster response, community safety, and environmental protection. Two workshops will cover six topics that will spur research challenges: (a) theoretical integration (b) social capital, social intelligence, and effective action, (c) sharable infrastructure, ethics, and protections, (d) design to motivate, (e) graduate training and (f) the unique challenges for government use of social media. The primary output of the workshops will be a report that specifies challenges and outcomes for each of the topic areas.