{"id":224,"date":"2009-11-05T18:15:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T02:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/?p=224"},"modified":"2009-11-05T18:15:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T02:15:14","slug":"4s-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/2009\/11\/4s-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"4S 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from attending the <a title=\"Society for Social Studies of Science\" href=\"http:\/\/4sonline.org\/\">Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)<\/a> annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The conference is a fun venue and most of the Science and Technology Studies world was there. There is a significant overlap with ACM conferences like CHI and CSCW, but the approach at 4S tends to be more theoretical.<\/p>\n<p>I presented a talk about &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bietz-4S-2009-abstract.pdf\">Cyberinfrastructure and Scientific Validity in Metagenomics Research<\/a>,&#8221; in which I looked at how large DNA sequence databases are involved in creating &#8220;matters of fact.&#8221; The paper was part of a really interesting session on <em>Genomics: Life as an Information Technology<\/em>. I attended a lot of other great sessions, too. A few of the many highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stuart Geiger&#8217;s work on Wikipedia bots, in the session, <em>What is Code? What is Coding? Emerging STS Approaches in Studying Computer Code<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sonja Palfner&#8217;s presentation in the session on <em>Monitoring, Modeling, and Memory: New Scientific Infrastructures<\/em>, where she argues (as we do in <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/projects\/\">our &#8220;Leveraging Development Expertise Across Cyberinfrastructures&#8221; grant<\/a>) that we should look at supercomputing centers to understand the relationships among cyberinfrastructure projects.<\/li>\n<li>Michael Barany&#8217;s presentation on &#8220;Examples, Models, Witnessing, and the Mathematical Imagination,&#8221; in which he proposes the idea of &#8220;slightly scalene&#8221; examples in mathematics (from the session <em>Making Things: Artisanship, Representation, and Formalisms at the Convergence of Science and Craft<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>Katrina Boulding&#8217;s work uncovering the actor-network that was required to create the 2007 San Diego Wildfires Google Map, in the session <em>Visualization: Maps and Images<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The conference makes an excellent counterpoint to the more design-oriented conferences like CHI and CSCW, and opens up a space for deeper theorizing about the interactions of science and technology. <a href=\"http:\/\/4sonline.org\/meeting.htm\">4S 2010<\/a> will be in Tokyo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from attending the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The conference is a fun venue and most of the Science and Technology Studies world was there. There is a significant overlap with ACM conferences like CHI and CSCW, but the approach at 4S tends to be more theoretical. I presented a talk about &#8220;Cyberinfrastructure and Scientific Validity in Metagenomics Research,&#8221; in which I looked at how large DNA sequence databases&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/csclab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}