Webshop 3.0: Technology-Mediated Social Participation

这笔资金用于支助为来自美国的20名有前途的研究生举办的一个讲习班，他们的研究涉及技术介导的社会参与的各个方面。当社交网络工具、博客和微博、用户生成的内容网站、讨论组、问题报告、推荐系统和其他社交媒体被应用于国家优先事项，如卫生、能源、教育、救灾、环境保护、商业创新或社区安全时，就会产生技术介导的社会参与。尽管社交媒体正在改变社会，但许多大学在将这些新技术和社会结构融入课程和研究方面进展缓慢。前两次NSF支持的TMSP研讨会概述了这一领域的研究和教育议程，该议程发表在IEEE计算机特刊上的一系列期刊文章中。为了加强TMSP的研究和教育，该研讨会汇集了一个跨学科的研究生小组，听取该领域领导人的演讲，学习新的研究技能，并通过分享以社交媒体为重点的各种研究流相互学习。TMSP“网上商店”将包括来自社会学，人类学，传播学，心理学，新闻学和人文科学以及信息研究、信息系统、人机交互和计算机科学。将努力确保性别平衡、少数民族群体的强大代表性和跨学科性。 学生将通过提交一页的声明，为什么他们希望参加讲习班沿着他们的简历申请。在为期三天的研讨会期间，学生将参加由该领域杰出领导人组成的跨学科小组的演讲，并参与其他研究和社区建设活动。智力优势：越来越多的人认识到，社交媒体技术可以为国家优先事项带来深远的利益，如灾害应对，社区安全，健康/保健，能源可持续性和环境保护。然而，需要大量的研究来扩大参与，提高动机，控制恶意攻击，限制误导性谣言，保护隐私。第三届会议讲习班将通过多学科的深入讨论，促进这一领域的新思想、新工具和新理论。所涵盖的专题具有以下共同点：（1）与紧迫的国家优先事项密切联系;（2）以既定理论和明确界定的研究问题（隐私、互惠、信任、动机、承认等）为基础的科学基础;以及（3）计算机科学研究挑战（安全性、隐私保护、可扩展性、可视化、最终用户开发、分布式数据处理、社区演化的网络分析、跨网络比较等）。更广泛的影响：该研讨会将提高人们对以技术为媒介的社会参与作为一个独特的研究领域的重要性的认识，促进新的跨学科项目，提高应邀发言的研究人员和教育工作者的知名度，并促进美国各地领先的研究生对该学科的更好理解。研讨会还将帮助新的研究人员与同行和有经验的研究人员和从业人员建立关系。具体成果将包括参考书目、网站链接、演讲者的视频和幻灯片集以及精心制作的课程、会议和期刊清单等资源。这些资源将有助于研究人员和教育工作者谁寻求扩大他们的工作在技术介导的社会参与。

This is funding to support a workshop for 20 promising graduate students from the United States whose research covers aspects of Technology-Mediated Social Participation (TMSP). Technology-mediated social participation is generated when social networking tools, blogs and microblogs, user-generated content sites, discussion groups, problem reporting, recommendation systems, and other social media are applied to national priorities such as health, energy, education, disaster response, environmental protection, business innovation, or community safety. Although social media are transforming society, many universities have been slow to integrate these novel technologies and social structures into their curricula and research. Two previous NSF-supported TMSP Workshops have outlined an agenda for research and education in this area, which was published in a serious of journal articles appearing in a special issue of IEEE Computer. To increase research and education in TMSP, this workshop brings together an interdisciplinary group of graduate students to listen to presentations by leaders in the field, learn new research skills, and learn from each other by sharing the diverse research streams that focus on social media.The TMSP "webshop" will include 20 graduate students from such fields as sociology, anthropology, communications, psychology, journalism and humanities as well as from information studies, information systems, human-computer interaction and computer science. Effort will be taken to ensure gender balance, strong representation from ethnic minority groups, and cross-disciplinarity. Students will apply by submitting a one page statement of why they wish to attend the workshop along with their curriculum vitae. During the three-day workshop, students will attend presentations from an interdisciplinary group of distinguished leaders in the field and engage in other research and community-building activities. Intellectual Merit: There is a growing recognition that social media technologies can bring profound benefits for national priorities such as disaster response, community safety, health/wellness, energy sustainability, and environmental protection. However substantial research is needed to scale up participation, raise motivation, control malicious attacks, limit misguided rumors, and protect privacy. The TMSP workshop will foster new ideas, tools and theories in this area through intense multidisciplinary discussion. Topics to be covered share (1) a close linkage to compelling national priorities; (2) a scientific foundation based on established theories and well-defined research questions (privacy, reciprocity, trust, motivation, recognition, etc.); and (3) computer science research challenges (security, privacy protection, scalability, visualization, end-user development, distributed data handling, network analysis of community evolution, cross network comparison, etc.). Broader impacts: The workshop will raise awareness of the importance of technology-mediated social participation as a distinct area of study, foster new interdisciplinary projects, raise the prominence of researchers and educators who are invited to speak, and promote greater understanding of the discipline among leading graduate students across the United States. The workshop will also help new researchers develop relationships with peers and experienced researchers and practitioners. Specific outcomes will include resources such as bibliographies, links to websites, video and slides sets from speakers and carefully crafted lists of courses, conferences, and journals. These resources will be helpful to researchers and educators who seek to expand their work in Technology-Mediated Social Participation.