some interesting stuff here Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ FRSC NetLab Network INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $15 Kindle $9 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 02:20:55 +0000 From: Steven G Epstein <s-epstein@NORTHWESTERN.EDU> To: SKAT-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ASANET.ORG Subject: Reminder: SKAT Sessions at ASA 2014 Although SKAT's section day at this year's ASA meeting is Tuesday, August 19th, our sessions actually begin on Monday afternoon. Our session organizers have done an excellent job in putting these sessions together, so please do attend them! See you all in San Francisco! Steve Epstein Chair, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section MONDAY, AUGUST 18TH The Sociology of Big Data: Knowledge, Technology, Security, and Privacy 2:30pm-4:10pm Session Organizer and Presider: Benjamin H. Sims, Los Alamos National Laboratory Description: Big Data has emerged as a key engine of commerce and state power in the 21st century, even as it has created new vulnerabilities that threaten existing political and social orders. These developments have led to charged public debates over security and privacy and have introduced new ways of knowing social worlds that challenge the social sciences. We invite contributions that examine the science and technology of Big Data or assess its implications for knowledge production and social order. Panelists: Rock Stars of Big Data? The Standardization of Expertise and Implications for Diversity in Analytics. Margaret Willis, Boston College Big Data Policing in the Homeland Security Era: ILP and Intelligence Fusion in History and Practice. Brendan Innis McQuade, State University of New York, Binghamton Constructing the Suspicious: Data Fusion and the Future of Security. Torin Monahan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Inclusive Surveillance and Privacy: India's Unique Identity Project. Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives. Parul Baxi, University of California, Davis Discussant: James A. Evans, University of Chicago TUESDAY, AUGUST 19TH Open Paper Session: Topics in Science, Knowledge, and Technology Studies 8:30am-10:10am Session Organizer: James A. Evans, University of Chicago Panelists: Entrepreneurial Formulas: Business Plans and the Formation of New Ventures. Martin Giraudeau, London School of Economics & Political Science; Liliana Doganova, Center for the Sociology of Innovation Looping Genomes: Diagnostic Expansion and the Genetic Makeup of the Autism Population. Daniel Navon, Harvard University; Gil Eyal, Columbia University Managing Sharing/Secrecy Tensions around Scientific Knowledge Disclosure. Andrew Nelson, University of Oregon The Impact of Bone Marrow Donor Infrastructure on Sibling Relationships. Lianna Hartmour, University of California, Los Angeles The Organization of Expert Activism: Shadow Mobilization in Two Social Movements. Scott Frickel, Washington State University; Rebekah Torcasso, Washington State University; Annika Yvette Anderson, Washington State University Science, Knowledge, and Technology Roundtable Session 10:30am-11:30am Session Organizer: Scott Frickel, Washington State University Table 1: Scientific Careers and Education Table Presider: Erin Leahey, University of Arizona · Dreams of Balance: Intersections of Gender and Race/Ethnicity in Doctoral Student Ideas About Work-life Balance Christine Virginia Wood, Northwestern University; Lynn Gazley, Northwestern University; Patricia Campbell, Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc. · Scientific Career Persistence in a Diverse Biomedical Sample Monica Gaughan, Arizona State University · Situated Occupational Role Identity and Undergraduate Research Engagement Susan Carol Losh, Florida State University; Brandon Nzekwe, Florida State University · The Post-Self in Science Joseph C. Hermanowicz, University of Georgia · The Spatiality of Knowledge Making: Campus Space and the Epistemic Environments of Area Studies Centers Jonathan Z. Friedman, New York University; Elizabeth Anderson Worden, American University Table 2: Evaluation and Science · Conducting Research Using Online Crowdsourcing: A Preliminary Comparison of MTurk to Representative National Surveys Peter Martini, University of Nevada-Reno; Victoria A. Springer, University of Nevada-Reno; James T. Richardson, University of Nevada-Reno · Evaluation, Identity, and Interdisciplinarity: How Tenure Review Creates Rebels, Heroes, and Reformers Eliza Evans, Stanford University; Elina Mäkinen, Stanford University · The Way We Ask for Money: The Changing Logics of Grant Writing in German Academia (1975-2005) Kathia Serrano Velarde, Heidelberg University Table 3: Biomedicine and Health I Table Presider: Elise Paradis, University of Toronto · The Deep Meaning of Noise in an Emerging Audio Platform Joseph Klett, Yale University · The Family Tree: Understanding Addiction Genetics Through Family History Molly J. Dingel, University of Minnesota-Rochester; Jenny Ostergren, University of Michigan; Rachel Hammer, Mayo Clinic; Jennifer McCormick, Mayo Clinic · The Fight To Get In: Space, Place, and the Meaning of Rounds in the ICU Elise Paradis, University of Toronto; Myles Leslie, Johns Hopkins University Table 4: Biomedicine and Health II Table Presider: Kelly Moore, Loyola University-Chicago · The Little Death: The Problem of Cancerous Sex in Twentieth Century Biomedicine Natalie Brooke Aviles, University of California-San Diego · The Specter of Timothy Leary: Telling Stories and Performing Credibility in Contemporary Psychedelic Science Danielle Giffort, University of Illinois-Chicago · The Body as a Technology, Technological Object, and Techno-Normativity Alexander I. Stingl, Drexel University; Sabrina M. Weiss, Rochester Institute of Technology · Braining Your Life and Living Your Brain: Cyborg Gaze, Gendering, Chronification, Aging of the Brain Alexander I. Stingl, Drexel University Table 5: Technology/Innovation Table Presider: Elizabeth M. Sweeney, University of Cincinnati · Finland's Strategic Centers for Science, Technology, and Innovation: New Pathways of Epistemic Governance Seppo Poutanen, University of Turku · Is the Virtual Becoming Real? Self-Presentation and the Exhibition of Social Circles in Cyberspace Ran Liu, University of Pennsylvania · Motivation and Innovative Performance for R&D and Non-R&D Inventors Yeonji No, Independent Scholar · Online Health Information Seeking among Older Adults and Barriers to Communication Michelle Pannor Silver, University of Toronto Table 6: Knowledge Economies and Commerce Table Presider: Mathieu Albert, University of Toronto · Contested Professional Identities in Commercial Contexts of Academic Science David R. Johnson, Rice University · Control vs. Use: The Dilemma of Knowledge-Based Economies in the Periphery David Valentine Bernard, University of the West Indies · Reification of the Intellect: Historical Sociology of Intellectual Property Nazan Bedirhanoglu, State University of New York-Binghamton Table 7: Knowledge Networks Table Presider: Kathleen C. Oberlin, Indiana University · A Meeting of Minds: How Intellectual Integration Drives Social Integration Tobias H. Stark, Stanford University; Susan Marie Biancani, Stanford University · Mapping Knowledge Structure on Korean Cancer Research, 1990-2013 Sang Teck Oh, Yonsei University · Structural Holes and Network Closure in the Contemporary Chinese Academic Labor Market Xiao Lu, Tsinghua University · The Global Knowledge Flows of Political Research: Is All Politics G(local)? Charles Jonathan Gomez, Stanford University Table 8: Science in Political Debate Table Presider: Rebekah Torcasso, Washington State University · Classically Illogical and Currently Illegal: Social Science and Humanity Courses under HB-2281 James Curiel, Norfolk State University · Queering Statistics: The Rise and Effects of Quantification in LGBT Social Movements Somjen Frazer, Columbia University · Think Tanks in the Space of Opinion: Creating Uncertainty about the Consensus on Climate Change John VP McLevey, University of Waterloo · Science, Society, and Democracy: A Reconsideration Elif Kale-Lostuvali, University of California-Berkeley Table 9: Science Policy and Governance Table Presider: Jill A. Fisher, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill · How Scientific Funding Cuts Undermine Technological Innovation Hsin-I Huang, University College-London; Simcha Jong, University College-London · State Intrusion, Identity Conflict, and Radical Organizational Change at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Dali Ma, Drexel University · Satellite Imagery and Datafication: The Reductionary Quantification of Space Monica M. Brannon, New School for Social Research Invited Paper Session: Morality and Science 12:30pm-2:10pm Description: Moral and scientific practices are always entwined, and the sociology of science has been at the forefront of analyzing those intersections. This panel engages research that has pushed the field forward by examining: how research sponsors, religious groups, and governments weave moral and scientific issues together; institutional arenas in which these issues are worked out; and the kinds of "work" that concepts such as justice, ethics, and morality do for scientists and the sociology of science. Session Organizers: Sydney Halpern, University of Illinois at Chicago; Kelly Moore, Loyola University Chicago Presider: Sydney Halpern, University of Illinois at Chicago Panelists: Experimental Patriots: The Ethics of Drug Testing in American Prisons. Anthony Ryan Hatch, Georgia State University Bio-Ethics and Bio-Justice: HPV and the Expanding Field of Cancer Prevention. Laura Mamo, San Francisco State University A Critique of the Use of New Genomic Data to Reconstitute Biological Race Categories. Joan Fujimura, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ramya Rajagopalan, University of Wisconsin, Madison Beyond Incommensurability in Sexual Rights Conflict: Scientific, Religious, and Moral Truths of Homosexuality Woven across the United States and Uganda. Tom Waidzunas, Temple University Discussant: Kelly Joyce, Drexel University Invited Paper Session. Valuation Devices: STS Approaches to the Sociology of Worth 2:30pm-4:10pm Description: In such politically fraught and technically mediated arenas as health, the environment, education, and finance, we find intensive struggles over the worth of things. Tools such as environmental impact assessment, performance review, and cost-benefit analysis seek to objectively measure values but often become objects of controversy. This panel will explore emerging directions in the social analysis of valuation processes, with an emphasis on the place of knowledge, expertise, and technologies. Session Organizer and Presider: Andrew Lakoff, University of Southern California Panelists: Stop it. Why Resisting Rankings has Failed and Why Evaluation Measures can be Hard to Tame. Wendy Nelson Espeland, Northwestern University The Type and the Grade: Wine Classifications and the Institutional Scaffolding of the Judgment of Taste. Marion Fourcade, University of California, Berkeley; Rebecca Elliott, University of California, Berkeley; Olivier Jacquet, Université de Bourgogne Capturing Worlds of Worth: Fiction Reviewing, Management Consulting, and Scholarly Evaluation Compared. Michele Lamont, Harvard University; Phillipa Chong, Harvard University; Alaric Bourgoin, Center for the Sociology of Innovation My Top Ten List of Valuation Devices. David Stark, Columbia University