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Inaugural Science of Science Summer School (S4)
August 3 - 7, 2020, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, NY, USA
https://scienceofscience.org/s4/

Cost: Free but apply & $1K fellowships
Apply by: April 6, 2020

This event will bring together PhD students, junior scholars, faculty, and experts in order to gain hands-on experience with vital Science of Science topics. We saw a need for this event when examining other summer schools and workshops – existing events do not focus entirely on the study of SciSci and take more a methods-based approach rather than question-based. We hope to fill this gap in the Science of Science community. We expect to have 30-40 participants for this inaugural event.

Confirmed speakers/mentors:

• Tim Errington, Director of Research, Center for Open Science
• James A. Evans, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
• Vincent Larivière, Full Professor, Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication, l’Université de Montréal
• Staša Milojević, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Dashun Wang, Associate Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
• Bruce Weinberg, Professor, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University
• Jevin West, Associate Professor, Information School, University of Washington
• Kevin Crowston, Distinguished Professor, iSchool, Syracuse University
• Bei Yu, Associated Professor, iSchool, Syracuse University
• Jian Qin, Professor, iSchool, Syracuse University

Organizers:

• Daniel Acuna, iSchool, Syracuse University
• Stephen V. David, Oregon Health & Science University

These are a sample of the topics to be covered at S4:

• Computational discovery of new knowledge
• Predictability and analysis of success
• Problems and opportunities in scientific peer review
• Issues in replication and reproducibility
• Economics of science and science policy
• Analysis of open access scientific literature and other scientific artifacts
• Evolution of scientific ideas
• Age, gender, and mentorship effects in science
• Scientific misconduct and computational research integrity
• Bring your own topic to the school if we have missed something!

These are some of the techniques you will learn about:

• Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
• Network Science / Complex systems
• Informetrics / Scientometrics / Bibliometrics
• Visualization
• Econometrics / Causal inference
• Library Science

Partially sponsored by NSF’s "Collaborative Research: Social Dynamics of Knowledge Transfer Through Scientific Mentorship and Publication" award #1933803

Thanks,
Daniel

Daniel Acuna
Assistant Professor
Science of Science and Computational Discovery Lab (SOS+CD)
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University

address:
School of Information Studies
312 Hinds Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

personal web: https://www.acuna.iohttps://acuna.io
lab web: https://scienceofscience.org

email: deacuna@syr.edumailto:deacuna@syr.edu

The Journal of Peer Production would like to announce the publication of Special Issue #14 'Infrastructuring the Commons Today, when STS meet ICT'

Guest editors: Mariacristina Sciannamblo (Sapienza University of Rome), Maurizio Teli (Aalborg University), Peter Lyle (Aarhus University) & Christopher Csíkszentmihályi (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute)

Peer production and collaborative forms of technological design – such as those based on commons-oriented approaches – have at their core a critical stance towards the technoscientific landscape, an approach shared with Science and Technology Studies (STS) as a theoretical archipelago that has produced a significant wealth of knowledge that points out the social constructive and performative character of technoscience.

In recent time, the increasing prominence of critical approaches - e.g. feminist and postcolonial STS - and the intersections with surrounding fields - e.g. participatory design, information science, and critical technical practice - have stressed the politically engaged character of STS, emphasizing its "activist interest" (Sismondo, 2008). Such growing interest in collaborative modes of practicing STS has suggested the emergence of a "collaborative turn" in STS (Farías, 2017). Such novel approaches allow researchers and practitioners to understand and experience STS as a “practice” as well as a theoretical perspective, an approach that can be fruitful and inspiring also to investigate, design, and advocate for commons-based and oriented forms of production and experiences.

This special issue focuses on such collaborative orientation of STS by exploring its interplay with the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) when focusing on the commons and peer production. With the question of infrastructuring the commons as a background, the issue evokes the disciplinary intersection of STS with design studies and information science; the epistemological meeting between STS and critical perspectives; the making of new alliances between researchers, activists and local populations; the convergence of institutional interests and research practices to promote alternative sociotechnical infrastructures.

The issue is open access and available at this link: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-14-infrastructuring-the-commons-today-when-sts-meets-ict/

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