digitalSTS Workshops

该项目将支持两个跨学科培训讲习班，旨在将科学技术研究领域的研究生和学者聚集在一起，目的是为新兴的网络媒介科学研究制定一个议程。第一个研讨会将于2013年夏季在哈佛大学举行，重点关注设计方法（如协同设计和数据可视化）在数字科学中的作用。第二次研讨会将于2013年秋季在加州大学圣地亚哥分校的加州电信和信息技术学院举行，与科学社会研究学会（4S）的年度会议同时举行。随着科学变得越来越计算化，越来越依赖于网络基础设施，通过扩展STS调查，可以从传统的STS专注于实验科学和土木工程，扩展到包括虚拟科学和ci工程。提议的研讨会将通过激发数字STS研究人员之间关于该领域的主题、方法和方向的对话，以及使研究生和其他新兴学者能够进行对话，来解决这一智力差距。特别是，数字STS研讨会将介绍STS学者的设计方法，可以加强数字物质性和混合社会技术系统的研究。作为一种与网络媒介的科学研究材料和实践社区互动的手段，可视化、模型、地图和数据纪录片的使用非常适合当前的技术时刻。本次研讨会的长期目标是编写一本数字科学与技术研究手册，该手册将为该领域的现在和未来提供方法论和实质性指导。

This project will support two interdisciplinary training workshops designed to bring together graduate students and scholars in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), with the goal of framing an agenda for the emerging study of cyber-mediated science. The first workshop will take place in Summer 2013 at Harvard University, with a focus on the role of design methods (such as codesign and data visualization) in digital science. The second workshop will take place in Fall 2013 at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, on the campus of the University of California-San Diego, where it will be co-located with the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).As science becomes increasingly computational and increasingly dependent on cyberinfrastructure, much can be gained by extending STS inquiry beyond the traditional STS focus on bench science and civil engineering, to encompass virtual science and CI-engineering. The proposed workshops will address this intellectual gap, both by sparking a conversation among digital STS researchers about topics, methods and directions for the field, and also by making that conversation accessible to graduate students and other emerging scholars. In particular, the digitalSTS workshops will introduce STS scholars to design methods that can enhance studies of digital materiality and hybrid sociotechnical systems. As a means of engaging with cyber-mediated scientific research materials and communities of practice, the use of visualizations, models, maps, and data documentaries is well suited to the current technological moment. The long-term goal of this workshop is the development of a Digital Science and Technology Studies Handbook, which will offer a methodological and substantive guide on the present and future of the field.