Binding Wires, Twining Ropes. Digital STS.

Binding Wires, Twining Ropes: STS, Imagination and the Materiality of Sea Change Stephanie B. Steinhardt, Amanda J. Thackray DigitalSTS Workshop @ The Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) 2015 | Denver, CO | November 10-12, 2015 Rope is an ever-present material in oceanographic work: it is conspicuously present to an…

Anticipation Work: Cultivating Vision in Collective Practice. CSCW ’15.

Anticipation Work: Cultivating Vision in Collective Practice Stephanie B. Steinhardt, Steven J. Jackson ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Media (CSCW) 2015 | Vancouver, BC | March 14-18, 2015 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention This paper joins a growing body of CSCW and HCI work addressing problems of temporality in large-scale collaborative work….

Feminism and Feminist Approaches in Social Computing. CSCW ’15.

Feminism and Feminist Approaches in Social Computing Steinhardt, S.B., Menking, A., Erickson, I., Marshall, A., Rode, J. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) |Vancouver, BC | March 14-18, 2015 Following on the successful CSCW 2014 workshop on Feminism and Social Media, this workshop will bring together a set of CSCW scholars to discuss feminist perspectives in…

Reconciling Rhythm: Plans and Temporal Alignment in Collaborative Scientific Work. CSCW ’14.

Reconciling Rhythm: Plans and Temporal Alignment in Collaborative Scientific Work Stephanie B. Steinhardt, Steven J. Jackson   Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) | Baltimore, MD | February 15-19, 2014   Plans and planning assume a central role and challenge of collaborative scientific work, bridging and coordinating often discordant rhythms and events emanating from the organizational, infrastructural, biographical…

Material Engagements: Putting Plans and Things Together in Collaborative Ocean Science. HICSS ’14.

Material Engagements: Putting Plans and Things Together in Collaborative Ocean Science Stephanie B. Steinhardt, Steven J. Jackson Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences | Big Island, Hawaii | January 6-9, 2014 Programs of scientific research, like other formally organized collective practices, meet the materiality of the world in complex and dynamic ways. This intersection has important and…

The Labor Politics of Big Science: Infrastructure and Organizational Change in Oceanography and Ecology. 4S ’13.

The Labor Politics of Big Science: Infrastructure and Organizational Change in Oceanography and Ecology Stephanie B. Steinhardt, Steven J. Jackson Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) | San Diego, CA | October 9-12, 2013   As U.S. national pressure heightens to address the societal-level concerns about climate change and urbanization, significant federal investment…

Following Bibliometric Footprints: The ACM digital library and the Evolution of Computer Science

Following Bibliometric Footprints: The ACM digital library and the Evolution of Computer Science Guha, S., Steinhardt, S.B., Ahmed, S.I., Lagoze, C.L. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) | Indianapolis, IN | July 22-26, 2013 Using bibliometric methods, this exploratory work shows evidence of transitions in the field of computer science since the emergence of HCI as a distinct…

Why CSCW Needs Science Policy (and Vice-Versa)

Why CSCW Needs Science Policy (and Vice-Versa) Steven J. Jackson, Stephanie B. Steinhardt Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2013) | San Antonio, TX | February 23-27, 2013 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…