Workshop: Theoretical and Methodological Innovations in Science and Technology Studies

拟议的研讨会汇集了研究生、初级教员和高级教员，以探索和转变科学和技术研究领域的核心理论概念和研究方法。已故的利·斯塔尔博士的理论和实证工作将成为研讨会的中心焦点。借鉴实用主义和芝加哥学派的工作社会学，斯塔尔的学术研究突出了科学实践和创新的社会维度。当其他人对实验室科学家操纵工具和数据来构建认识论洞察力的工作进行民族志研究时，Star专注于无数被认为是理所当然的、往往对助手、技术人员和学生的实践不屑一顾的做法，这些实践使科学突破成为可能。更深入地挖掘使科学成为可能的条件，斯塔尔突出了分类、计算机技术、文书工作和限制和构成科学工作的法规的基础设施。她的工作影响了许多领域，包括但不限于科学技术研究、社会学、人类学和计算机科学。该研讨会由科学和技术研究计划和信息和智能系统部门共同资助，提供了对Star在概念、经验和方法方面的贡献的深入审查和转变。从一系列广泛的理论概念中，Star考察了生态、基础设施、无形的工作、衔接工作、边界对象和分类的主题。STAR的智力创新开辟了新的研究领域，将社会和行为科学家引入科学和技术研究[STS]，加强了STS的方法论，并强调坚定不移地专注于经常在出版、奖励和推广实践中看不到的科学工作。北美、欧洲和日本的学者对斯塔尔博士的方法和方法进行了进一步的扩展和改造。研讨会的目的是将Star的思想置于科学和技术研究的形成中，并将这些理论框架转移到新的科学领域。

The proposed workshop brings together graduate students, junior faculty, and senior faculty to explore and transform theoretical concepts and research methodologies central to the field of Science and Technology Studies. The late Dr. Leigh Star's theoretical and empirical work will provide the workshop's central focus. Drawing from pragmatism and the Chicago school's sociology of work, Star's scholarship highlighted the social dimensions of scientific practice and innovation. Where others conducted ethnographies of the work of laboratory scientists' manipulating tools and data to construct epistemic insights, Star focused upon the countless, taken-for-granted and often dismissed practices of assistants, technicians, and students that make scientific breakthroughs possible. Digging even deeper into the conditions that make science possible, Star foregrounded the infrastructure of classifications, computer technologies, paperwork, and regulations that constrained and constituted scientific work. Her work has impacted numerous fields including but not limited to Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, and Computer Science. The workshop, co-funded by the Science and Technology Studies program and the Information and Intelligent Systems Division, provides an in-depth examination and transformation of Star's conceptual, empirical, and methodological contributions. Drawing from a broad set of theoretical concepts, Star examined themes of ecology, infrastructures, invisible work, articulation work, boundary objects, and classifications. Star's intellectual innovations opened up new areas of inquiry, brought social and behavioral scientists to Science and Technology Studies [STS], strengthened methodology in STS, and emphasized an unwavering focus on scientific work often rendered invisible in publication, award, and promotion practices. Scholars in North America, Europe, and Japan have further expanded upon and transformed Dr. Star's approaches and methodologies. The workshop aims to situate Star's ideas in the formation of Science and Technology Studies as well as move these theoretical frameworks into new scientific terrain.