Workshop: Theoretical and Methodological Innovations in Science and Technology Studies

研讨会：科技研究的理论与方法创新

• 批准号: 1101154
• 负责人: Stefan Timmermans
• 金额: $ 4.9万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1101154&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Theoretical; Methodological; Innovations; Science

The proposed workshop brings together graduate students, junior faculty, and senior faculty to explore and transform theoretical concepts and research methodologies central to the field of Science and Technology Studies. The late Dr. Leigh Star's theoretical and empirical work will provide the workshop's central focus. Drawing from pragmatism and the Chicago school's sociology of work, Star's scholarship highlighted the social dimensions of scientific practice and innovation. Where others conducted ethnographies of the work of laboratory scientists' manipulating tools and data to construct epistemic insights, Star focused upon the countless, taken-for-granted and often dismissed practices of assistants, technicians, and students that make scientific breakthroughs possible. Digging even deeper into the conditions that make science possible, Star foregrounded the infrastructure of classifications, computer technologies, paperwork, and regulations that constrained and constituted scientific work. Her work has impacted numerous fields including but not limited to Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, and Computer Science. The workshop, co-funded by the Science and Technology Studies program and the Information and Intelligent Systems Division, provides an in-depth examination and transformation of Star's conceptual, empirical, and methodological contributions. Drawing from a broad set of theoretical concepts, Star examined themes of ecology, infrastructures, invisible work, articulation work, boundary objects, and classifications. Star's intellectual innovations opened up new areas of inquiry, brought social and behavioral scientists to Science and Technology Studies [STS], strengthened methodology in STS, and emphasized an unwavering focus on scientific work often rendered invisible in publication, award, and promotion practices. Scholars in North America, Europe, and Japan have further expanded upon and transformed Dr. Star's approaches and methodologies. The workshop aims to situate Star's ideas in the formation of Science and Technology Studies as well as move these theoretical frameworks into new scientific terrain.

拟议的研讨会汇集了研究生，初级教师和高级教师，以探索和转变理论概念和研究方法的科学和技术研究领域的核心。已故的利星星博士的理论和实证工作将提供研讨会的中心焦点。借鉴实用主义和芝加哥学派的工作社会学，星星的奖学金突出了科学实践和创新的社会层面。当其他人对实验室科学家操纵工具和数据以构建认知洞察力的工作进行民族志时，星星专注于无数的，理所当然的，经常被忽视的助理，技术人员和学生的实践，使科学突破成为可能。星星更深入地挖掘了使科学成为可能的条件，突出了分类的基础设施，计算机技术，文书工作，以及限制和构成科学工作的法规。她的工作影响了许多领域，包括但不限于科学和技术研究，社会学，人类学和计算机科学。该研讨会由科学与技术研究计划和信息与智能系统部共同资助，对星星的概念、经验和方法论贡献进行了深入的研究和改造。星星从一系列广泛的理论概念出发，研究了生态学、基础设施、无形工作、衔接工作、边界对象和分类等主题。星星的智力创新开辟了新的研究领域，使社会和行为科学家的科学和技术研究[STS]，加强在STS的方法，并强调了对科学工作的坚定不移的重点往往呈现无形的出版，奖励和推广的做法。北美、欧洲和日本的学者进一步扩展和改变了星星博士的方法和方法。研讨会的目的是探讨星星的思想在科学和技术研究的形成，以及移动这些理论框架到新的科学领域。