Results tagged “research” from Michael Tyworth

Today I begin my postdoctoral fellowship at the College of Information Sciences & Technology, The Pennsylvania State University.  I will be working on the Network-Centric Cognition & Information Fusion project (NC2IF).

I will be also teaching IST 110:  Information, Technology & People this summer.

Sara Kiesler who is very active in the Social Informatics / Cyberinfrastructure research community is seeking candidates for a post doc position that sounds pretty fantastic:

I am seeking someone to conduct an NSF-funded interview study of scientific collaborations. This task will involve quite a bit of traveling to universities and talking with a variety of people including top scientists (half of whom will be CS, the other half a variety of disciplines), grad students, and staff including bureaucratic personnel such as people in budget offices. The task will also involve coding and analysis of the interviews.

If you are interested in virtual organization, the science of science, e-science, CSCW, and other related topics, you would have a chance to carve out your own paper from this work.

The postdoc would be for one year. It would not be necessary to live in Pittsburgh since the study is nationwide, however, would require you to visit periodically.

I am coauthor on a paper published in the latest issue of Information Polity.

Abstract:

In this article we offer visual depictions and analysis of contextual factors relative to the presence of public safety networks (PSNs) in the United States (US). A PSN combines shared technological infrastructures for supporting information sharing, computing interoperability and interagency interactions involving policing, criminal justice, and emergency response. The broad research objective is to explain the formation of PSNs based upon factors derived from rational choice and institutional theories. To do so we develop maps to represent our data analysis. This analysis suggests that our approach is promising for generating insights about PSNs and, by extension, about other types of inter-organizational collaborations focusing on using information and communication technologies to enable information-sharing.

Call for Participation:
2009 Summer Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems: 11-15 June, 2009 @ Syracuse University's Minnowbrook Conference Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

Application screening begins 2 March, 2009

Eligibility: Doctoral students, Post-doctoral scholars and pre-tenure faculty at US-based institutions.

Notification: Late March, 2009

Cost: Most will be covered for accepted participants

Background
A science of socio-technical systems is emerging from research in the fields of HCI, social computing, social informatics, CSCW, sociology of computing, and other domains. The Consortium for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (CSST) is a new organization devoted to advancing research on socio-technical systems. Building on the success of the 2008 Summer Research Institute, the CSST will, again, be hosting a summer research institute for advanced doctoral students and pre-tenure faculty in summer, 2009. A primary goal of the institute is to build a new cohort of faculty and graduate students who are interested in research on the design and interplay of technology and humans at the level of individuals, groups, organizations, and larger communities. Examples of this kind of work include research on:

• new forms of organizing (e.g., virtual organizations, massive online activities)
• social computing (e.g., online communities, social network sites)
• distributed work (e.g., collaboratories, virtual teams and organizations)
• new technologies (e.g., recommender systems, prediction markets, ubiquitous computing)
• novel forms of production (e.g., open source software, Wikipedia)
• new forms of expression and entertainment (e.g., blogs, wikis, massive multiplayer online role-playing games)
• information and communication technologies for developing regions (e.g., cell phone-based applications to assist economic development, infrastructure development for local economic action).

I may only (sic) be a graduate student, but I am lucky to have received excellent tutelage in how to conduct a peer review of a paper.  Recently I have had opportunity to be on the receiving end of poor quality reviews.  In the interest of full disclosure, I should note that the outcome of the one set of reviews was a 'reject,' and the other an 'accept.'

Really though, the quality of a review is independent of the review outcome.  For one can receive a high quality review that results in rejection; or a poor quality review that results in acceptance.  Ultimately, all of us in the research game want high quality reviews that end up in acceptance of our work.

I have had a poster abstract accepted for the 2009 i-Conference.  The poster outlines some preliminary findings from my dissertation research.  I will be presenting this poster at the i-Conference pending acceptance to the Doctoral Colloquium.

Two papers have been accepted to the 8th SIG-SI / SIG-USE research symposium at this year's annual meeting of the American Society of Information Science & Technology.

I will be presenting a paper I co-authored with Dr. Steve Sawyer of Syracuse University where we situate Social Informatics in the broader theoretical debate on the socio-technical nature of information and communications technologies (ICT).  This paper is in the vein of, and draws on, the insights of the Leonardi & Barley paper discussed in the prior post.

You can read this paper here.

I will also be presenting as a research poster on some early findings from my dissertation research on the influence of organizational identity on the design of complex inter-organizational information systems.  Specifically, I find that organizational identity claims are reflected in both the organizational and technological designs of integrated criminal justice information systems.

You can read the paper here.