Category: PhD

Reflections on 5 Years of Ethnography Around the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Oceanography Magazine.

Reflections on 5 Years of Ethnography Around the Ocean Observatories Initiative Forthcoming (2018) feature for a Special Issue of Oceanography Magazine Stephanie B. Steinhardt Media and Information Michigan State University Oceanographers often equate their next research venture to “dreaming up” (participant quotation) or to the start of their ideas as “not fettered by reality” (Robbins,…

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Imagining Intersectional Futures: Feminist Approaches in CSCW. CSCW ’17.

Imagining Intersectional Futures: Feminist Approaches in CSCW   Sarah Fox Amanda Menking Anna Lauren Hoffman Stephanie Steinhardt Shaowen Bardzell   Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ’17)     The aim of this one-day workshop is to explore theoretical and methodological approaches that help us consider issues of gender,…

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DISSERTATION: The Instrumented Ocean: How Sensors, Satellites and Seafloor-Walking Robots Changed What It Means to Study the Sea

The Instrumented Ocean: How Sensors, Satellites and Seafloor-Walking Robots Changed What It Means to Study the Sea DISSERTATION Stephanie B. Steinhardt Cornell Univesrity Department of Communication COMMITTEE: Steven J. Jackson (chair), Cornell University Department of Information Science Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell University Department of Communication Carl Lagoze, University of Michigan School of Information This dissertation is…

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On the Production of the Spirit of Feminism. Interactions.

On the Production of the Spirit of Feminism (2016, ACM Interactions) Ingrid Erickson, Libby Hemphill, Amanda Menking, Stephanie Steinhardt Interjecting ‘feminist’ or a reference to ‘feminism’ in our community is usually triggered by something controversial or atypical: sexism in “the Comments section” of many sites; the asymmetrical “white male”-ness of big data or its apparent claims; the inequities…

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Breakdown Workshop, Cornell University February 11, 2016

February 11, 2016 This 1-day workshop organized by Lara Houston, postdoctoral researcher in the Cornell Information Science Department with Steve Jackson, explored themes of breakdown, maintenance and repair across the disciplines of sociology, communication and information science.

RA: NSF CAREER “Governing Collaborative Science: Cyberinfrastructure, Scale, and Governance in the Networked Ecological Sciences”

NSF CAREER “Governing Collaborative Science: Cyberinfrastructure, Scale, and Governance in the Networked Ecological Sciences” Cornell University Information Science Department — Ithaca, NY January 2012 — August 2013 PI Dr. Steven Jackson, understanding the relationship between new information technologies and forms of governance in ecology, focused on shifts in the practice of science.