RAPID: Collaborative Research: 3dWomen: Exploring Three Decades of Women's Groups in Sustainable Development and the Impact of Social Media on Women's Professional Networks

随着社交媒体的复杂性和受欢迎程度的提高，我们对人们为什么聚集在一起创建社交网络的理解也在不断发展。特别感兴趣的是理解社交网络是如何在地理、文化和时间上出现和实施的？尤其是当它们是由全球气候变化等两极分化事件产生的时候。这个名为“3dWomen”的项目将研究在每十年（1992年、2002年，并将于2012年6月再次召开）一次的世界可持续发展大会（CSD）周围形成的妇女网络的出现和建立。3dWomen项目利用了一个独特的机会，对这个跨越时间（三十年）、空间（全球网络）和文化的网络的出现进行三维研究。这项深入和多方面的研究之所以成为可能，是因为为了应对应对全球气候危机的巨大紧迫感，妇女？将于2012年再次召开的党团会议将把1992年、2002年和2012年参加社民党活动的妇女聚集在一起。我们的分析——基于访谈、档案数据和社会网络分析——将使我们能够阐明在可持续发展会议活动上和活动之间的不同网络机制如何有助于妇女坚持参与可持续发展、科学和气候变化等专业领域的网络。

Our understanding of why people come together to create social networks is evolving as social media grow in complexity and popularity. Of particular interest is understanding how social networks emerge and are enacted across geography, culture and over time ? especially when they are generated by a polarizing event such as global climate change. This project, 3dWomen, will study the emergence and enactment of a network among women that has coalesced around the World Congress on Sustainable Development (CSD) that meets every ten years (1992, 2002, and will convene again in June 2012). The 3dWomen project takes advantage of a unique opportunity for three dimensional research on the emergence of this network across time (three decades), space (global networks) and culture. This in-depth and multidimensional research is only possible because, in response to the great sense of urgency to address the global climate crisis, the women?s caucus which will reconvene in 2012 will bring together the women from the CSD events in 1992, 2002 and 2012.Our analysis - based on interviews, archival data and social network analysis - will allow us to elucidate how different networking mechanisms at and between the CSD events, contribute to women persisting to engage in networks on specialized fields such as sustainability, science and climate change.