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OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | June 28, 2013 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | June 28, 2013 |
| Award Number: | 1344142 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Amy Friedlander
OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | July 1, 2013 |
| End Date: | June 30, 2015 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $25,880.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $25,880.00 |
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MAIN CAMPUS WASHINGTON DC US 20057 (202)625-0100 |
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DC US 20057-1789 |
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Information Technology Researc, VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
This project will support two interdisciplinary training workshops designed to bring together graduate students and scholars in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), with the goal of framing an agenda for the emerging study of cyber-mediated science. The first workshop will take place in Summer 2013 at Harvard University, with a focus on the role of design methods (such as codesign and data visualization) in digital science. The second workshop will take place in Fall 2013 at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, on the campus of the University of California-San Diego, where it will be co-located with the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).
As science becomes increasingly computational and increasingly dependent on cyberinfrastructure, much can be gained by extending STS inquiry beyond the traditional STS focus on bench science and civil engineering, to encompass virtual science and CI-engineering. The proposed workshops will address this intellectual gap, both by sparking a conversation among digital STS researchers about topics, methods and directions for the field, and also by making that conversation accessible to graduate students and other emerging scholars. In particular, the digitalSTS workshops will introduce STS scholars to design methods that can enhance studies of digital materiality and hybrid sociotechnical systems. As a means of engaging with cyber-mediated scientific research materials and communities of practice, the use of visualizations, models, maps, and data documentaries is well suited to the current technological moment. The long-term goal of this workshop is the development of a Digital Science and Technology Studies Handbook, which will offer a methodological and substantive guide on the present and future of the field.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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This award supported a total of three workshops to bring together graduate students and scholars from the multiple disciplines comprising Science and Technology Studies (STS) in order to set the agenda for the study of the digital in STS. Building on the momentum of a successful full-day workshop at the Society of the Social Studies of Science (4S) 2012 Copenhagen (see digitalsts.net) and a double-panel session at 4S 2011 Cleveland, based on this award we organized three subsequent events. The first workshop was held in the summer of 2013, hosted at Harvard’s metaLAB (http://metalab.harvard.edu/) and the Arnold Arboretum, specifically focusing on co-design and data visualization, in the design traditions. The second was in the fall of 2013 co-located with the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in San Diego. Both workshops were held in preparation for the development of a community driven and peer reviewed handbook for digitalSTS. At the time of writing this report, over 90 proposals submitted and peer reviewed during the summer of 2014 using a custom-generated peer-review platform, over 50 proposals were solicited as full papers, and during spring of 2015 44 full-papers have been submitted and reviewed by the community. The submission site design was supported by this award and will be available as open-source platform for use by other communities that wish to use it. This award is will also supporting an in-person writing workshop in advance of the Society for Social Studies of Science 2015 to further develop handbook paper submissions.
Last Modified: 07/03/2015
Modified by: David M Ribes
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