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Social ScienceResearch Practice in the Digital Age
Changes, Illustrations, Challenges
World Class University (WCU) Project
YeungNam University, Republic of Korea
WCU Webometrics Institute
http://english-webometrics.yu.ac.kr
21 September 2009
Nicholas W. Jankowski
Visiting Fellow
Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS) for the Humanities & Social Sciences
nickjan@xs4all.nl
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Introduction
WCU Project YeungNam University appreciation to Prof. Park & WCU staff
introduction respondents
Procedures Panoramic overview (ca. 40 min)
Respondents (4) (10-15 min each)
Questions & discussion (20-30 min)
Personal background Academic milieus
Research & scholarly publishing
Recent publication
e-Research: Transformations in Scholarly Practice (Routledge, July 2009)
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Overview Overall objective:
critically examining the claim to revolutionary change
Palette of conceptual formulations
Illustrating new ways of scholarship
Challenges in the Digital Age
Broader questions
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Claims to Revolutionary Change
Environmental science is undergoing a revolution.
(Badcock, et al., 13 Oct. 2009)
eScience - The Revolution is Starting(Gray, 2005; Microsoft Research)
Revolutionizing Science and Engineering ThroughCyberinfrastructure (Atkins et al., 2003)
We are living in exciting times. (Herring, 2004)
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Conceptual Formulations(potpourri)
cyberinfrastructure
cyberscience
e-Science
e-Social Science e-Research
Internet science (studies)
e-Scholarship
online research
See further: Schroeder (2007)
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Cyberinfrastructure
Indiana University (March 2007), http://rc.uits.iu.edu/newsletter/archives/
Cyberinfrastructure consists of computing systems,
data storage systems, advanced instruments and data
repositories, visualization environments, and people,
all linked together by software and high performance
networks to improve research productivity and enable
breakthroughs not otherwise possible.
Compared to ubiquitous infrastructures in society:
transport, electrical power, gas & water
Note: concept in flux; see Edwards et al. (2007)
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e-Science & Big Science
CERN http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/pics/stand2004/cern.html
Big: budgets, staffs, machines, laboratories
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e-Science Definition
National e-Science Centre, http://www.nesc.ac.uk/nesc/define.html
In the future, e-Science will refer to the large scale science that will increasingly be carried out
through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet. Typically, a feature of such
collaborative scientific enterprises is that they will require access to very large data collections,
very large scale computing resources and high performance visualisation back to the individualuser scientists.
Features sciences &engineering: primary; humanities & social sciences: secondary
grid computing: key component
alliance with computer science; tool development
top-down mandate; incorporated into science policy
documents: sense of inevitability, technological determinism
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e-Research
Rationale Broad disciplinary relevance; social sciences andhumanities
Unhindered by proclivities of other terms
Features Distant, international collaboration
Data preservation & access
Internet-based instruments
Visualization
(high-speed) networked computers
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Illustrations: capita selecta
e-Science
e-Research: social sciences
e-Research: humanities
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e-Science:large-scale instrumentation & distant collaboration
Birnholtz, J. P., & Horn, D. B. (2007). Shake, rattle and roles: Lessons from experimental
earthquake engineering for incorporating remote users in large-scale e-science experiments.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(2), article 17.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/birnholtz.html
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Social Sciences: Data Visualization 1
Classical data visualizationSource: Livingstone, S., & Helsper, E. (2007) Gradations in digital inclusion: children, young people and the
digital divide.New Media & Society 9(4): 671-696.
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Social Sciences: Data Visualization 2
IBM: ManyEyes Visualization Projecthttp://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/Sm4H4JsOtha6AL-ANrG8J2-
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Tour.html
Finding the right way view your data
is as much an art as a science.
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Social Sciences: Data Visualization 3
Vizster: Visualizing Online Social NetworksHttp://jheer.org/vizster/
Note: see Burns (2007) for description of IssueCrawler
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Humanities: Data Preservation & Access 1a
International Institute for Social Historymanuscript Communist Manifestohttp://www.iisg.nl/collections/manifest/manifest.php
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Humanities: Data Preservation & Access 1b
Muse Rodin http://www.musee-rodin.fr/
Note: see Hine (2006) for discussion of the digital versus the original in scholarly practice
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Humanities: Data Visualization 1
The Qumran Visualization Project http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/qumran/
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Humanities: Data Visualization 2
http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/
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Challenges for Social Science Research in
the Digital Age(abbreviated version)
Collaboration
How can distant collaboration be achieved across scholarly divides & cultural divisions?
(challenge of cross-national, cross-disciplinary research)
Data preservation & access
How can quantitative & qualitative data be archived, preserved & made accessible to other researchers?
Internet-based research designs
How can representative samples be studied using online instrumentation for data collection & analysis?
VisualizationHow can social scientists utilize the potential of high-speed networked computers in visualizing social &
political relations?
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Broader Discussion
How are features & concerns of e-Research relevant to
ordinary scholars in the humanities & social science?
RQ: In what manner & to what extent are features of e-Research adopted / adapted (social sciences & humanities)
across disciplines, scholarly cultures & political climates?
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Selected Resources(semi-ordered list)
Jankowski, N. W. (ed.) (2009). e-Research: Transformation in scholarly practice. New York: Routledge. Badcock, N. S., Garnett, E. A. Godfray, H. C. J., & Gurney, R. J. (eds.). (2009). The environmental eScience revolution.
Theme issue.Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 367(1904), Oct. 13. Available at:
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/issues/eScience.xhtml
ACLS. (Dec. 2006). Our Cultural Commonwealth. Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on
Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/
Akins Report. (Jan. 2003).Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure. Report of the National
Science Foundation Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure. http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/reports/toc.jsp
National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure Council (March 2007). Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st CenturyDiscovery. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/nsf0728.pdf
Edwards, P.N., Jackson, S.J., Bowker, G.C., & Knobel, C.P. Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and
Design. (Jan. 2007). Report of a Workshop on History & Theory of Infrastructure: Lessons for New Scientific
Cyberinfrastructures. http://www.si.umich.edu/InfrastructureWorkshop/documents/UnderstandingInfrastructure2007.pdf
Jankowski, N. W. (Ed.) (2007). Theme issue on e-Science, JCMC, 12(2), http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/
Bruns, A. (May 2007). Methodologies for Mapping the Political Blogosphere: An Exploration Using the IssueCrawler
Research Tool.First Monday, 12(5). http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_5/bruns/index.html
de la Flor, G., & Meyer, E. T. (2008). Talking bout a revolution: Framing e-Research as a computerization movement.Presentation at e-Research 08 Conference. Sept. available at:
http://www.slideshare.net/etmeyer/talking-bout-a-revolution-framing-eresearch-as-a-computerization-movement-presentati
Schroeder, R. (March 2007). e-Research Infrastructures and Open Science: Towards a New System of Knowledge
Production?Prometheus, 25(1): 1-17. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08109028.asp
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Thank You!
Nicholas W. Jankowski
Visiting Fellow, VKS
nickjan@xs4all.nl
URLS: institutions & resources
WCU Webometrics Institute: http://english-webometrics.yu.ac.kr/
YeungNam WCU Project Blog: http://yeungnam.edublogs.org/
e-Research book web site (beta): http://e-research.cyswik.net/
Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS) for the Humanities & Social Sciences:
www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl
VKS wiki e-Research: www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/wiki/
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