SGER: Public Perceptions and Constructions of the Y2K Problem

这项探索性研究的小额赠款将测试创新技术，以收集1999年以来提到“千年虫”问题的电视剪辑档案。 研究人员断言，2000年问题提供了一个独特的窗口，让人们了解公众对技术的看法，特别是对现代计算机技术对日常生活的影响的看法;因此，一个媒体对Y2K问题的参考档案将为试图了解技术与文化之间关系的学者提供丰富的资源，借鉴社会科学理论，如“无知的话语”。“这个项目将使用新的成本效益高的技术，允许下载有线电视信号，扫描闭路字幕文本以查找Y2K问题，然后只将涉及该问题的部分存档。

This Small Grants for Exploratory Research will test innovative technologies to collect an archive of television clips from 1999 mentioning the "millennium bug" of "Y2K" problem. The researchers assert that the Y2K issue provides a unique window to the public perception of technology, and especially perceptions about the implications of modern computer technologies for daily life; hence an archive of media references to the Y2K problem will provide a rich resource to scholars attempting to understand the relationship between technology and culture, drawing on social science theories such as agenda-setting or "discourses of ignorance." This project will use new cost-effective technologies that allow downloading of cable-television signals, scanning the close-captioning text for mentions of the Y2K problem, and then archiving only those segments that include reference to the issue.