[CFP] Workshop on Social construction and implications of research

CfP: Workshop on Social construction and implications of research
infra-structures


3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies
June 28-30, 2007

Organizers: Peter van den Besselaar, Netherlands Center for Science
Sys-tem Assessment & University of Amsterdam and Rob Procter, National
Centre for e-Social Science, UK

Increasingly, advanced research infrastructures are becoming important
in many research fields. This is the case in the social sciences and
humanities as well as in the sciences. These developments are called
e-Science and e-Social Science in Europe, and cyber science in the USA.

In this workshop we focus on the social, organizational, political,
legal (IPR, privacy) and epistemological issues relating to these new
research in-frastructures for data sharing and knowledge creation, and
on the implica-tions for ICT based knowledge sharing infrastructure
development and de-ployment policies.

The workshop will bring together researchers who study research
infra-structures from a socio-technical point of view. The main aim is
to share approaches and results of studies of the development and
effects of re-search infrastructures. A second aim is to discuss the
science and research policy implications.

Participation will be conditional on submission of either a short paper
(up to 10 pages) reporting research done in the field, or a position
paper (up to 3 pages) about policy, theoretical and methodological
issues.

Submissions should be emailed to p.vandenbesselaar@rathenau.nl or
rob.procter@ncess.ac.uk

Submission deadline: April 30th, 2007
Notification of acceptance: May 14th, 2007


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Prof. dr Peter van den Besselaar

Head of department
Science System Assessment
Rathenau Institituut
P.O. Box 95366
2509 CJ Den Haag
+31(0)70 342 1542
&
Amsterdam School of Communications Research ASCoR
Universiteit van Amsterdam
http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/p.a.a.vandenbesselaar/