Jankowski WCU Presentation, Social Science Research Practice in Digital Age, Final Version, 21 Sept 2009

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Social ScienceResearch Practice in the Digital Age

Changes, Illustrations, Challenges

World Class University (WCU) Project

YeungNam University, Republic of Korea

WCU Webometrics Institute

http://english-webometrics.yu.ac.kr

21 September 2009

Nicholas W. Jankowski

Visiting Fellow

Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS) for the Humanities & Social Sciences

[email protected]
http://english-webometrics.yu.ac.kr/menu.htmlhttp://english-webometrics.yu.ac.kr/http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/http://english-webometrics.yu.ac.kr/http://english-webometrics.yu.ac.kr/menu.html


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Introduction

WCU Project YeungNam University appreciation to Prof. Park & WCU staff

introduction respondents

Procedures Panoramic overview (ca. 40 min)

Respondents (4) (10-15 min each)

Questions & discussion (20-30 min)

Personal background Academic milieus

Research & scholarly publishing

Recent publication

e-Research: Transformations in Scholarly Practice (Routledge, July 2009)

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Overview Overall objective:

critically examining the claim to revolutionary change

Palette of conceptual formulations

Illustrating new ways of scholarship

Challenges in the Digital Age

Broader questions



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Claims to Revolutionary Change

Environmental science is undergoing a revolution.

(Badcock, et al., 13 Oct. 2009)

eScience - The Revolution is Starting(Gray, 2005; Microsoft Research)

Revolutionizing Science and Engineering ThroughCyberinfrastructure (Atkins et al., 2003)

We are living in exciting times. (Herring, 2004)



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Conceptual Formulations(potpourri)

cyberinfrastructure

cyberscience

e-Science

e-Social Science e-Research

Internet science (studies)

e-Scholarship

online research

See further: Schroeder (2007)



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Cyberinfrastructure

Indiana University (March 2007), http://rc.uits.iu.edu/newsletter/archives/

Cyberinfrastructure consists of computing systems,

data storage systems, advanced instruments and data

repositories, visualization environments, and people,

all linked together by software and high performance

networks to improve research productivity and enable

breakthroughs not otherwise possible.

Compared to ubiquitous infrastructures in society:

transport, electrical power, gas & water

Note: concept in flux; see Edwards et al. (2007)

http://rc.uits.iu.edu/newsletter/archives/http://rc.uits.iu.edu/newsletter/archives/


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e-Science & Big Science

CERN http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/pics/stand2004/cern.html

Big: budgets, staffs, machines, laboratories

http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/pics/stand2004/cern.html


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e-Science Definition

National e-Science Centre, http://www.nesc.ac.uk/nesc/define.html

In the future, e-Science will refer to the large scale science that will increasingly be carried out

through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet. Typically, a feature of such

collaborative scientific enterprises is that they will require access to very large data collections,

very large scale computing resources and high performance visualisation back to the individualuser scientists.

Features sciences &engineering: primary; humanities & social sciences: secondary

grid computing: key component

alliance with computer science; tool development

top-down mandate; incorporated into science policy

documents: sense of inevitability, technological determinism

http://www.nesc.ac.uk/nesc/define.htmlhttp://www.nesc.ac.uk/nesc/define.html


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e-Research

Rationale Broad disciplinary relevance; social sciences andhumanities

Unhindered by proclivities of other terms

Features Distant, international collaboration

Data preservation & access

Internet-based instruments

Visualization

(high-speed) networked computers



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Illustrations: capita selecta

e-Science

e-Research: social sciences

e-Research: humanities



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e-Science:large-scale instrumentation & distant collaboration

Birnholtz, J. P., & Horn, D. B. (2007). Shake, rattle and roles: Lessons from experimental

earthquake engineering for incorporating remote users in large-scale e-science experiments.

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(2), article 17.

http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/birnholtz.html

http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/birnholtz.htmlhttp://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/birnholtz.html


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Social Sciences: Data Visualization 1

Classical data visualizationSource: Livingstone, S., & Helsper, E. (2007) Gradations in digital inclusion: children, young people and the

digital divide.New Media & Society 9(4): 671-696.



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IBM: ManyEyes Visualization Projecthttp://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/Sm4H4JsOtha6AL-ANrG8J2-

http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Tour.html

Finding the right way view your data

is as much an art as a science.

http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/Sm4H4JsOtha6AL-ANrG8J2-http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Tour.htmlhttp://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Tour.htmlhttp://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/Sm4H4JsOtha6AL-ANrG8J2-


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Vizster: Visualizing Online Social NetworksHttp://jheer.org/vizster/

Note: see Burns (2007) for description of IssueCrawler

http://jheer.org/vizster/http://jheer.org/vizster/


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Humanities: Data Preservation & Access 1a

International Institute for Social Historymanuscript Communist Manifestohttp://www.iisg.nl/collections/manifest/manifest.php

http://www.iisg.nl/collections/manifest/manifest.phphttp://www.iisg.nl/collections/manifest/manifest.php


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Humanities: Data Preservation & Access 1b

Muse Rodin http://www.musee-rodin.fr/

Note: see Hine (2006) for discussion of the digital versus the original in scholarly practice

http://www.musee-rodin.fr/


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Humanities: Data Visualization 1

The Qumran Visualization Project http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/qumran/

http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/qumran/http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/qumran/http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/qumran/http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/qumran/


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Humanities: Data Visualization 2

http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/

http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/


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Challenges for Social Science Research in

the Digital Age(abbreviated version)

Collaboration

How can distant collaboration be achieved across scholarly divides & cultural divisions?

(challenge of cross-national, cross-disciplinary research)

Data preservation & access

How can quantitative & qualitative data be archived, preserved & made accessible to other researchers?

Internet-based research designs

How can representative samples be studied using online instrumentation for data collection & analysis?

VisualizationHow can social scientists utilize the potential of high-speed networked computers in visualizing social &

political relations?



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Broader Discussion

How are features & concerns of e-Research relevant to

ordinary scholars in the humanities & social science?

RQ: In what manner & to what extent are features of e-Research adopted / adapted (social sciences & humanities)

across disciplines, scholarly cultures & political climates?



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Selected Resources(semi-ordered list)

Jankowski, N. W. (ed.) (2009). e-Research: Transformation in scholarly practice. New York: Routledge. Badcock, N. S., Garnett, E. A. Godfray, H. C. J., & Gurney, R. J. (eds.). (2009). The environmental eScience revolution.

Theme issue.Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 367(1904), Oct. 13. Available at:

http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/issues/eScience.xhtml

ACLS. (Dec. 2006). Our Cultural Commonwealth. Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on

Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/

Akins Report. (Jan. 2003).Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure. Report of the National

Science Foundation Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure. http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/reports/toc.jsp

National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure Council (March 2007). Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st CenturyDiscovery. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/nsf0728.pdf

Edwards, P.N., Jackson, S.J., Bowker, G.C., & Knobel, C.P. Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and

Design. (Jan. 2007). Report of a Workshop on History & Theory of Infrastructure: Lessons for New Scientific

Cyberinfrastructures. http://www.si.umich.edu/InfrastructureWorkshop/documents/UnderstandingInfrastructure2007.pdf

Jankowski, N. W. (Ed.) (2007). Theme issue on e-Science, JCMC, 12(2), http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/

Bruns, A. (May 2007). Methodologies for Mapping the Political Blogosphere: An Exploration Using the IssueCrawler

Research Tool.First Monday, 12(5). http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_5/bruns/index.html

de la Flor, G., & Meyer, E. T. (2008). Talking bout a revolution: Framing e-Research as a computerization movement.Presentation at e-Research 08 Conference. Sept. available at:

http://www.slideshare.net/etmeyer/talking-bout-a-revolution-framing-eresearch-as-a-computerization-movement-presentati

Schroeder, R. (March 2007). e-Research Infrastructures and Open Science: Towards a New System of Knowledge

Production?Prometheus, 25(1): 1-17. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08109028.asp

http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/issues/eScience.xhtmlhttp://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/reports/toc.jsphttp://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/reports/toc.jsphttp://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/nsf0728.pdfhttp://www.si.umich.edu/InfrastructureWorkshop/documents/UnderstandingInfrastructure2007.pdfhttp://www.si.umich.edu/InfrastructureWorkshop/documents/UnderstandingInfrastructure2007.pdfhttp://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_5/bruns/index.htmlhttp://www.slideshare.net/etmeyer/talking-bout-a-revolution-framing-eresearch-as-a-computerization-movement-presentationhttp://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08109028.asphttp://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08109028.asphttp://www.slideshare.net/etmeyer/talking-bout-a-revolution-framing-eresearch-as-a-computerization-movement-presentationhttp://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_5/bruns/index.htmlhttp://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/http://www.si.umich.edu/InfrastructureWorkshop/documents/UnderstandingInfrastructure2007.pdfhttp://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/nsf0728.pdfhttp://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/reports/toc.jsphttp://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/issues/eScience.xhtml


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Thank You!

Nicholas W. Jankowski

Visiting Fellow, VKS

[email protected]

URLS: institutions & resources

WCU Webometrics Institute: http://english-webometrics.yu.ac.kr/

YeungNam WCU Project Blog: http://yeungnam.edublogs.org/

e-Research book web site (beta): http://e-research.cyswik.net/

Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS) for the Humanities & Social Sciences:

www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl

VKS wiki e-Research: www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/wiki/

mailto:[email protected]://english-webometrics.yu.ac.kr/http://yeungnam.edublogs.org/http://e-research.cyswik.net/http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/wiki/http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/wiki/http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/http://e-research.cyswik.net/http://yeungnam.edublogs.org/http://english-webometrics.yu.ac.kr/mailto:[email protected]

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