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Oxford e-Social Science Project. e-Science: The view from the social sciences. Jenny Fry and Ralph Schroeder Oxford Internet Institute. How can social science best support research with novel technologies?. Non-technological barriers to e-science e.g.
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Oxford e-Social Science Project e-Science: The view from the social sciences Jenny Fry and Ralph Schroeder Oxford Internet Institute
How can social science best support research with novel technologies? • Non-technological barriers to e-science e.g. • Trust in distributed collaboration, data provenance, access and ownership of data, confidentiality and privacy in social data, social protocols around technical standards and interoperability. • Dual complexity: diversity of domain-specific disciplinary expertise required in developing solutions on one hand, and heterogeneity of research practices being supported by e-science on the other
Mapping current social science approaches to e-science (with illustrative concerns)
Examples of some earlier approaches • Advocacy (steering and aligning structures)… • David and Spence’s project-based typology • Critique (reflexive/prospective)… • Wouters and Beaulieu computation-centric e-science based on disciplinary analysis • Others?…
Social and technical organization of e-Sciences: dimensions and factors • Differences in degrees of interdependency and uncertainty across disciplines, as applied to… …is technology development a driver? …what is the balance between computer science and disciplines being enhanced? …disciplinary organization? …how closely or loosely coupled are collaborations?
Different levels of issue based analysis • Issues at the macro- or policy level • Issues at the systems and networks level • Specific issues which apply to particular scientific domains or cut across domains • Issues pertaining to specific projects or cases • Individual or isolable issues within projects
Summary • Non-technological challenges to appropriation • Mapping current social approaches to e-(social) science • Variation in mutual dependences and technical uncertainty across disciplines • Different levels of analysis • Can analyses of levels, typologies and social science be brought to bear on one another?