Webshop 3.0: Technology-Mediated Social Participation

这笔资金用于支持20名有前途的美国研究生的讲习班，他们的研究涵盖技术介导的社会参与（TMSP）的各个方面。当社交网络工具、博客和微博客、用户生成内容网站、讨论组、问题报告、推荐系统和其他社交媒体应用于国家优先事项，如卫生、能源、教育、灾害响应、环境保护、商业创新或社区安全时，技术介导的社会参与就产生了。尽管社交媒体正在改变社会，但许多大学在将这些新技术和社会结构融入课程和研究方面进展缓慢。前两次nsf支持的TMSP研讨会概述了这一领域的研究和教育议程，这些议程发表在IEEE Computer特刊上的一系列期刊文章中。为了增加TMSP的研究和教育，本次研讨会汇集了一个跨学科的研究生小组，听取该领域领导者的演讲，学习新的研究技能，并通过分享专注于社交媒体的不同研究流来相互学习。TMSP“网上商店”将包括20名研究生，他们来自社会学、人类学、传播学、心理学、新闻学和人文学科，以及信息研究、信息系统、人机交互和计算机科学等领域。将努力确保性别平衡，少数民族代表性强，跨学科。学生将提交一页的陈述，说明他们希望参加研讨会的原因以及他们的简历。在为期三天的研讨会中，学生们将参加由该领域杰出领袖组成的跨学科小组的演讲，并参与其他研究和社区建设活动。知识价值：越来越多的人认识到，社交媒体技术可以为国家优先事项带来深远的好处，如灾难响应、社区安全、健康/健康、能源可持续性和环境保护。然而，需要大量的研究来扩大参与、提高积极性、控制恶意攻击、限制误导的谣言和保护隐私。TMSP研讨会将通过激烈的多学科讨论，在这一领域培养新的思想、工具和理论。拟涵盖的主题与紧迫的国家优先事项有密切联系；(2)基于既定理论和明确的研究问题（隐私、互惠、信任、动机、认可等）的科学基础；(3)计算机科学的研究挑战（安全性、隐私保护、可扩展性、可视化、最终用户开发、分布式数据处理、社区演变的网络分析、跨网络比较等）。更广泛的影响：研讨会将提高人们对技术介导的社会参与作为一个独特研究领域的重要性的认识，促进新的跨学科项目，提高受邀发言的研究人员和教育工作者的地位，并促进美国顶尖研究生对该学科的更深入了解。该研讨会还将帮助新的研究人员与同行以及有经验的研究人员和实践者建立关系。具体成果将包括参考书目、网站链接、演讲者的视频和幻灯片集以及精心制作的课程、会议和期刊列表等资源。这些资源将有助于研究人员和教育工作者谁寻求扩大他们的工作在技术介导的社会参与。

This is funding to support a workshop for 20 promising graduate students from the United States whose research covers aspects of Technology-Mediated Social Participation (TMSP). Technology-mediated social participation is generated when social networking tools, blogs and microblogs, user-generated content sites, discussion groups, problem reporting, recommendation systems, and other social media are applied to national priorities such as health, energy, education, disaster response, environmental protection, business innovation, or community safety. Although social media are transforming society, many universities have been slow to integrate these novel technologies and social structures into their curricula and research. Two previous NSF-supported TMSP Workshops have outlined an agenda for research and education in this area, which was published in a serious of journal articles appearing in a special issue of IEEE Computer. To increase research and education in TMSP, this workshop brings together an interdisciplinary group of graduate students to listen to presentations by leaders in the field, learn new research skills, and learn from each other by sharing the diverse research streams that focus on social media.The TMSP "webshop" will include 20 graduate students from such fields as sociology, anthropology, communications, psychology, journalism and humanities as well as from information studies, information systems, human-computer interaction and computer science. Effort will be taken to ensure gender balance, strong representation from ethnic minority groups, and cross-disciplinarity. Students will apply by submitting a one page statement of why they wish to attend the workshop along with their curriculum vitae. During the three-day workshop, students will attend presentations from an interdisciplinary group of distinguished leaders in the field and engage in other research and community-building activities. Intellectual Merit: There is a growing recognition that social media technologies can bring profound benefits for national priorities such as disaster response, community safety, health/wellness, energy sustainability, and environmental protection. However substantial research is needed to scale up participation, raise motivation, control malicious attacks, limit misguided rumors, and protect privacy. The TMSP workshop will foster new ideas, tools and theories in this area through intense multidisciplinary discussion. Topics to be covered share (1) a close linkage to compelling national priorities; (2) a scientific foundation based on established theories and well-defined research questions (privacy, reciprocity, trust, motivation, recognition, etc.); and (3) computer science research challenges (security, privacy protection, scalability, visualization, end-user development, distributed data handling, network analysis of community evolution, cross network comparison, etc.). Broader impacts: The workshop will raise awareness of the importance of technology-mediated social participation as a distinct area of study, foster new interdisciplinary projects, raise the prominence of researchers and educators who are invited to speak, and promote greater understanding of the discipline among leading graduate students across the United States. The workshop will also help new researchers develop relationships with peers and experienced researchers and practitioners. Specific outcomes will include resources such as bibliographies, links to websites, video and slides sets from speakers and carefully crafted lists of courses, conferences, and journals. These resources will be helpful to researchers and educators who seek to expand their work in Technology-Mediated Social Participation.