RCN: Digital Society and Technologies Research Coordination Network

RCN：数字社会和技术研究协调网络

• 批准号: 1144934
• 负责人: Steven Sawyer
• 金额: $ 49.25万
• 依托单位: Syracuse University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1144934&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; Digital; Society; Technologies; Research

This Research Coordination Network will employ a series of workshops, seminars and other capacity-building activities to build out a "lightweight" (i.e., minimally burdensome or constraining, widely accessible and appreciated) network organization whose participants seek to advance the design, adoption and impact of digital technologies through sociotechnical research. A key product associated with the network will be a cyberinfrastructure that enables deposit and retrieval of useful assets (e.g., ideas, documents, data) for studying, designing and managing sociotechnical systems.The community-building and research-initiating goals of the RCN are to be achieved through at least 33 workshops across five years of the effort. The workshops will engage scholars and practitioners from a wide range of fields and professional societies that address sociotechnical issues in knowledge sharing. The workshop conversations will enable diffusion of state-of-the-art findings and tools across disciplines and domains. They will also encourage communities of researchers to collaborate across academic silos and to address questions related to pressing problems in sociotechnical practice. Thus, broader impacts will include both a shared research cyberinfrastructure and enhanced evidence bases for improved sociotechnical practice.Understanding how technologically mediated work is best accomplished, which is the focus of this RCN, is of great importance both to the scientific community and to nurturing a national innovation ecosystem that will enhance national competitiveness and security. Scholarly research in this domain is currently fragmented so could benefit greatly from integration and from diffusion of knowledge, techniques and tools across disciplinary boundaries.

这一研究协调网络将举办一系列讲习班、研讨会和其他能力建设活动，以建立一个“轻量级”（即，最低限度的负担或限制，广泛访问和赞赏）的网络组织，其参与者寻求通过社会技术研究推进数字技术的设计，采用和影响。 与网络相关的一个关键产品将是网络基础设施，它可以实现有用资产的存款和检索（例如，RCN的社区建设和研究启动目标将在五年的努力中通过至少33个讲习班来实现。讲习班将邀请来自广泛领域和专业协会的学者和从业人员参加，以解决知识共享中的社会技术问题。研讨会的对话将使国家的最先进的研究结果和跨学科和领域的工具的传播。他们还将鼓励研究人员社区跨学术孤岛合作，并解决与社会技术实践中的紧迫问题有关的问题。因此，更广泛的影响将包括共享的研究网络基础设施和增强的证据基础，以改善社会技术实践，了解如何最好地完成技术介导的工作，这是本RCN的重点，对科学界和培育国家创新生态系统都非常重要，这将提高国家竞争力和安全。这一领域的学术研究目前是分散的，因此可以从跨学科边界的知识，技术和工具的整合和传播中受益匪浅。