Digital Societies and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute

该项目是一个跨学科的培训研讨会，旨在汇集研究生和建立学者在计算机科学，人机交互，设计研究，管理信息系统和网络社会科学之间的“社会技术”接口工作。 该研讨会被称为“数字社会和社会技术暑期研究所”，有助于建立一个“调查和实践社区”，以解决当今日益数字化的工作场所所面临的技术、社会和组织挑战。 特别是，2013年DSST夏季研究所的重点是限制社会技术界建立连贯的跨学科对话，开发合作研究议程，培养新一代新兴学者的能力的问题。 2013年的研究所还将为参与者提供所需的网络基础设施概念、理论和工具，以利用计算和大数据研究方法，在社会技术设计科学中实现新的变革议程。 NSF的资助使25名博士生能够参加DSST暑期研究所项目，并更好地融入新兴的DSST社区。当今新兴的信息和通信技术（ICT）有望在许多社会和科学领域取得重大进展;然而，这些技术处于多个学术和政策领域的令人不安的交叉点，“对许多人有用，但对任何人都不重要。DSST暑期研究所旨在召集和加强一个由社会科学家、计算机科学家、设计研究人员、计算方法和数据专家组成的新生社区，开始在这个关键但不发达的无人区建立缺失的知识和制度基础设施，以实现持续的学术研究。 除了提高对工具和技术进步的认识外，DSST暑期研究所还将开发社会技术学者的跨学科网络，重点关注关键的ICT挑战，并实现ICT研究领域内新兴计算方法和大数据资源的变革潜力。 此外，研讨会还将服务于教育目的，为研究生和其他早期职业研究人员提供培训，反馈和机会，以建立超越其家庭部门的学院和导师关系。 此外，除了为加强社会技术信息和通信技术研究社区做出这些直接贡献外，暑期研究所还将通过加强对工作流程（包括科学工作实践）从物理环境转向虚拟环境时发生的连续性和转变的理解，为更广泛的计算和数据支持科学和工程的基础设施做出贡献。

This project is an interdisciplinary training workshop designed to bring together graduate students and established scholars working at the "socio-technical" interface between computer science, human-computer interaction, design studies, management information systems, and cyber-social science. Dubbed the "Digital Societies and Social Technologies Summer Institute," the workshop contributes to ongoing efforts to build a "community of inquiry and practice" that can address the mixture of technical, social and organizational challenges that characterize today's increasingly digital workplaces. In particular, the 2013 DSST Summer Institute focusses on problems that are limiting the sociotechnical community's ability to build coherent interdisciplinary dialogues, develop collaborative research agendas, and nurture new generations of emerging scholars. The 2013 Institute will also equip participants with the cyberinfrastructure concepts, theories and tools needed to enlist computational and big-data research methods in pursuit of new and transformative agendas in sociotechnical design science. NSF funding allows 25 doctoral students to participate in the DSST Summer Institute program and become better integrated into the emerging DSST community.Today's emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs) promise significant advances across many domains of social and scientific interest; however, these technologies stand at an uncomfortable intersection of multiple scholarly and policy fields, "useful to many but central to none." The DSST Summer Institute seeks to convene and reinforce a nascent community of social scientists, computer scientists, design researchers, and computational methods and data specialists, to begin building the missing intellectual and institutional infrastructure for sustained scholarship in this crucial but underdeveloped no-man's-land. Beyond raising awareness of advances in tools and techniques, the DSST Summer Institute will also develop interdisciplinary networks of sociotechnical scholars focused on critical ICT challenges and on realizing the transformative potential of emerging computational methods and big data resources within the ICT studies domain. In addition, the workshops will also serve an educational purpose, providing graduate students and other early-career researchers with training, feedback, and opportunities to build collegial and mentorship ties beyond their home departments. Moreover, beyond these direct contributions to strengthening the community for sociotechnical ICT Studies, the Summer Institute will also contribute to the infrastructure for computational and data-enabled science and engineering more generally, by enhancing understanding of the continuities and transformations that occur when work processes -- including scientific work practices -- move from physical to virtual settings.