digitalSTS Workshops

该项目将支持两个跨学科培训讲习班，旨在将科学和技术研究(STS)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项议程。第一期讲习班将于2013年夏季在哈佛大学举行，重点是设计方法(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研究所举行，届时将与社会科学学会(4S)的年会同时举行。随着科学变得越来越计算性和对网络基础设施的依赖，将STS调查从传统的STS重点放在板凳科学和土木工程之外，涵盖虚拟科学和CI工程，可以获得很多好处。拟议的研讨会将解决这一智力差距，既通过在数字STS研究人员之间引发关于该领域的主题、方法和方向的对话，也通过使研究生和其他新兴学者能够接触到这种对话。特别是，数字STS讲习班将介绍STS学者设计方法，以加强对数字物质和混合社会技术系统的研究。作为与网络媒介的科学研究材料和实践社区接触的一种手段，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。这次讲习班的长期目标是编写一本《数字科学和技术研究手册》，它将就该领域的现状和未来提供方法论和实质性指南。

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.