Workshop: Support for doctoral students and junior researchers at The Digital Societies and Social Technologies Summer Institute

这是一个为期五天的跨学科培训工作坊，旨在将研究生和年轻人与从事计算机科学、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的知名学者聚集在一起。该联盟将培养一批对社会技术研究感兴趣的有前途的年轻研究人员，并建立一个“探究和实践社区”，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，从而增强这一新兴研究领域的科学劳动力。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，这些技术站在多个学术和政策领域的一个令人不安的交叉点上，“对许多人有用，但对没有人重要”。DSST暑期学院旨在召集和加强社会科学家、计算机科学家、设计研究人员、计算方法和数据专家的社区，开始在这个关键但不发达的无人区建立持续的学术研究所缺失的智力和制度基础设施。美国国家科学基金会资助30名博士生和早期教师参加DSST暑期研究所计划，并更好地融入新兴的DSST社区。特别是，2014年DSST暑期学院将重点关注限制社会技术社区建立连贯的跨学科对话、制定合作研究议程和培养新一代新兴学者的能力的问题。2014年研修班还将为学员提供网络基础设施概念、理论和工具，帮助他们利用计算和大数据研究方法，在社会技术设计科学领域追求新的、变革性的议程。除了提高对工具和技术进步的认识之外，DSST暑期研究所还将发展跨学科的社会技术学者网络，重点关注关键的ICT挑战，并在ICT研究领域实现新兴计算方法和大数据资源的变革潜力。此外，这些研讨会还具有教育目的，为研究生和其他早期职业研究人员提供培训、反馈和机会，使他们能够在各自所在部门之外建立学院和导师关系。此外，除了这些对加强社会技术信息通信技术研究社区的直接贡献之外，暑期学院还将通过加强对工作过程（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，更广泛地为计算和数据驱动的科学和工程基础设施做出贡献。

This is funding to support the "Digital Societies and Social Technologies Summer Institute" (DSST-SI), a five-day interdisciplinary training workshop designed to bring graduate students and young faulty together with established scholars working at the socio-technical interface between computer science, human-computer interaction, design studies, management information systems, and cyber-social science. The Consortium will enhance the scientific workforce in this emerging research area by developing a group of promising young researchers interested in socio-technical research and building a "community of inquiry and practice" that can address the mixture of technical, social and organizational challenges that characterize today's increasingly digital workplaces. 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 the 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. NSF funding allows 30 doctoral students and early faculty to participate in the DSST Summer Institute program and become better integrated into the emerging DSST community.In particular, the 2014 DSST Summer Institute will focus 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 2014 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. 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.