Sociotechnical Approaches to Fieldwork and Trace Data Integration

Sawyer, Steven; Allen, Warren; Monroy, Carlos; Shankar, Kalpana; Su, Norman Makoto; Voida, Stephen

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Title

Sociotechnical Approaches to Fieldwork and Trace Data Integration

Author(s)

• Sawyer, Steven
• Allen, Warren
• Monroy, Carlos
• Shankar, Kalpana
• Su, Norman Makoto
• Voida, Stephen

Issue Date

2015-03-15

Keyword(s)

• cultural institutions
• human information behavior
• social media
• social computing

Abstract

The 2015 Sociotech Workshop focuses attention to the possibilities of leveraging trace data (data that is created from the use or presence of digital artifacts and interactions) with data collected through fieldwork. This combination is sociotechnical both in its form and value to better engaging human/ machine interactions. To this end, the workshop provides a forum for: (1) introducing scholars to the basic conceptual premises of sociotechnical scholarship; (2) sociotech scholars to advance their own work and thinking relative to the opportunities of combining the various types of evidence gathered through fieldwork with the range of trace data possibilities that are emerging. Like the seven previous pre-iConference Sociotech Workshops, this event also provides participants an introduction to the Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST). The CSST serves a trans-disciplinary community, connecting like-minded scholars from many different intellectual communities whose interests are towards the mutual constitution of social and technological phenomena. A 250-word position paper is due March 9; see the iConference workshop web page for details.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2015 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

English

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