Heading to Social Studies of Science (4S)

4S is now just around the corner. I've got a stellar double panel of scholars reflecting on 'STS following the digital turn', co-organized with Janet Vertesi:

SATURDAY

153. STS 2.0: Taking the Canon Digital – l
8:30 to 10:00 am
Crowne Plaza: Fuldheim
Chair:
Janet Vertesi, Princeton University
Discussants:
Trevor Pinch, Cornell University
Joshua Mark Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Morana Alac, University of California, San Diego
Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University

173. STS 2.0: Taking the Canon Digital – ll
10:30 to 12:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: Fuldheim
Chair:
David Ribes, Georgetown University
Discussants:
Geoffrey Bowker, Santa Clara University
Paul Dourish, University of California at Irvine
E. Gabriella Coleman, New York University
Anita Chan, University of Illinois

I won't be presenting any of my research on (cyber)infrastructure, but here are some great panels:

THURSDAY

013. Collaboration Infrastructures in the Sciences:
Sociotechnical Issues
8:30 to 10:00 am
Crowne Plaza: Van Sweringen
Chair:
Florence Millerand, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Participants:
Open Infrastructure Supporting Heterogeneous Collaboration: The
Case of TelaBotanica. Lorna Heaton, Universite de Montreal;
Florence Millerand, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Integrating Heterogeneity in a Database. Florence Millerand,
Universite du Quebec a Montreal; Olivier Gratton‐Gagné,
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Cyberinfrastructure Supported Interdisciplinarity. Drew Paine,
University of Washington; Tony Ferro, University of Washington
Reuse of Data and Technologies across Cyberinfrastructure
Development Projects. Charlotte P. Lee, University of
Washington; Matthew J. Bietz, University of California Irvine;
Katie Derthick, University of Washington; Drew Paine, University
of Washington

THURSDAY

062. Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity
1:30 to 3:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: Hope
Chair:
Elihu M Gerson, Tremont Research Institute
Participants:
The Shape of Information Management: Fostering Collaboration
across Data, Science and Technology in a Design Studio. Joan
Marie Donovan, University of California San Diego; Karen S.
Baker, University of California San Diego/ Scripps Institution of
Oceanography
Scalefree Geographical Mapping of Scientific Collaboration of
Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Olivier H. Beauchesne, Science‐
Metrix, Inc; Éric Archambault, Science‐Metrix, Inc
What Factors Might Affect Physicians for Conducting Collaborative
Research? Yuko Ito, National Institute of Science and Technology
Policy; Hiromi Saito, GRIPS
Junctures: A Kind of Research Organization. Elihu M Gerson,
Tremont Research Institute

THURSDAY

058. Scientometrics and STS
1:30 to 3:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: Rockefeller
Chair:
Matthew Mayernik, University of California, Los Angeles
Participants:
Evaluating the Long Now of Cyber‐Science and Engineering. Cory
Philip Knobel, University of Pittsburgh; Astrid Schrader, Sarah
Lawrence College
Interactive Overlays: A New Method for Generating Global Journal
Maps from Web‐of‐Science Data. Loet Leydesdorff, University of
Amsterdam; Ismael Rafols, University of Sussex
Bringing Scientometrics and Science and Technology Studies
Together ‐ Again: Lessons from ANT. Ira Monarch, Carnegie
Mellon
Data Citations in the Geo‐Sciences: Motivations, Measurements,
and Organizational Alignments. Matthew Mayernik, University of
California, Los Angeles

SATURDAY

198. Friction: Data, Metadata and Collaborative Scientific
Work
1:30 to 3:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: Grand Ballroom ‐ West
Chair:
Ayse G. Buyuktur, University of Michigan
Participants:
Distribution of Data Management Responsibilities. Jillian C Wallis,
University of California, Los Angeles
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From Practices to Institutions: Metadata Structures Within
Scientific Collaboratories. Matthew Mayernik, University of
California, Los Angeles; Archer L. Batcheller, University of
Michigan
Of Shrines and Samples: Innovation and Integrity in Long‐Term
Ecological Data Practice. Matt Burton, University of Michigan;
Steven Jackson, University of Michigan
The Science Database as a Communicative Genre. Dharma Akmon,
University of Michigan

SATURDAY

228. Representing the World: Mediation and Database Design
3:30 to 5:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: Allen
Chair:
Matthew J. Bietz, University of California Irvine
Participants:
Databases and Metagenomics: Enforcing Genomic Ways of
Knowing. Matthew J. Bietz, University of California Irvine
Constructing Cyberinfrastructure. Cory Philip Knobel, University of
Pittsburgh
Recontexting Disease: Interpreting Shared Data in Cancer
Epidemiology. Betsy Rolland, University of Washington
Impossible Deaths: Facebook’s Exclusion of Mortality in the
Representation of Our Lives. Jed R. Brubaker, University of
California ‐ Irvine
Discussant:
Charlotte P. Lee, University of Washington