'Scientific Collaboration on the Internet' Published by MIT Press
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/
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 develop common Cyberinfrastructure: domain/domain (e.g., geophysics and paleobotany) and domain/IT (e.g., geoscientists and computer scientists).
Two NSF awards!
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 Knowledge in Scientific Cyberinfrastructure‘ from the Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) program.
I’ll be working closely on these exciting projects with my colleagues for the next few years. More on this to come.
Participants and institutions on these projects include: Christine Borgman (UCLA); Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star (Santa Clara University); Paul N. Edwards, Steven J. Jackson and Thomas Finholt (University of Michigan).
I have arrived at Georgetown
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 technology’ course.