http://davidribes.com Sociotechnical Thinker Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:23:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I joined Georgetown University's Communication, Culture and Technology Program (CCT)  in the fall of 2008 as an Assistant Professor. My research and teaching interests, which lie at the intersection of sociology, philosophy and history of science&technology, have focused on the emerging phenomena of Cyberinfrastructure (i.e., networked information technologies for the ... http://davidribes.com/?p=55 My position has been converted to tenure-track . Cheers. http://davidribes.com/?p=108 We invite participation in the second iConference Workshop on Sociotechnical systems, to be held prior to the iConference on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana-Champaign on February 3, 2010.  To see “who we are”, check out the facebook group – “Researchers of the Sociotechnical” or our website at http://www.sociotech.net ... http://davidribes.com/?p=90 Call for Papers Special Issue of JCSCW Guest Editors: Charlotte P. Lee, David Ribes, Matthew Bietz , Marina Jirotka, and Helena Karasti Scientific collaboration using cyberinfrastructure (CI), or e-Science, is forward facing. e-Science projects aim to support the collaboration of research communities, whether by facilitating distanced collaboration or sharing data and ... http://davidribes.com/?p=81 The book 'Scientific Collaboration on the Internet' edited by Gary Olson, Ann Zimmerman and Nathan Bos has, at long last, been published. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11603 This book contains a GEON case study written by yours truly (with Geof Bowker) focusing on the two primary 'disciplinary boundaries' that participants must navigate as they seek to ... http://davidribes.com/?p=78 I have been awarded two NSF grants to fund my research on Cyberinfrastructure and Virtual Organization! I am a principal investigator (PI) on 'Delegating Organizational Work to Virtual Organization Technologies' from the Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) program. I am a co-PI on 'Monitoring, Modeling and Memory: Dynamics of Data and ... http://davidribes.com/?p=77 I'm now at Georgetown University in the Communication, Culture and Technology (CCT) program. I'm teaching two masters courses this fall. I'll write more about this but for now, the short of it is that I'm teaching an introduction to Science and Technology Studies (STS) and a 'classics of qualitative studies of ... http://davidribes.com/?p=76 Currently attending (07.20-25) the Inaugural Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (CSST).  This elaborate title actually reflects a very exciting endeavor to bring together senior and junior scholars in social informatics, STS and other information centered studies. The primary organizers (Steve Sawyer and Tom Finholt) have assembled a spectacular ... http://davidribes.com/?p=75 On April 15th, 2008, here at the UMich iSchool, I presented my work on how participants within Cyberinfrastructure projects come to know (and thus constitute) their intended communities. Click here for a draft of this article to appear in CSCW2008. Below is the abstact for the talk. Abstract: 'Community' is one ... http://davidribes.com/?p=74 On Feb.6 2008 I presented my early work on the NASA Clickworkers interface at the UMich Science, Technology and Medicine Studies speaker series. Below is my abstract. Redistributing Professional Vision: Of Practice and Expertise in Classifying Craters This presentation focuses on the case of NASA Clickworkers, a web-based interface in which “average ... http://davidribes.com/?p=73