Title
Why CSCW needs science policy (and vice versa)
Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between CSCW studies of scientific collaboration and the larger worlds of science practice and policy they are embedded in. We argue that CSCW has much to learn from debates in science policy, including questions around the changing nature of science and science-society relations that are partly but obliquely referenced in technology- or data-centered accounts of scientific change. At the same time, science policy has much to learn from CSCW -- about design, infrastructure, and the organizational complexities of distributed collaborative practice. We conclude with recommendations for a better integration of the CSCW and science policy literatures around collaboration and new infrastructure development in the sciences, and speculation around what a post-normal cyberinfrastructure -- and post-normal CSCW -- might look like.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2441776.2441902
CSCW
Keywords
Field
DocType
post-normal cyberinfrastructure,science policy,cscw study,scientific collaboration,post-normal cscw,scientific change,science practice,science policy literature,collaborative practice,new infrastructure development,collaboration
Speculation,E-research,Science policy,Computer-supported cooperative work,Computer science,Knowledge management,Cyberinfrastructure,Human–computer interaction,Nature of Science
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
0.76
20
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steven J. Jackson138027.24
Stephanie B. Steinhardt2614.37
Ayse Buyuktur3866.70