Presentation to the Oxford e-Social Science (OESS) Symposium on the Social Shaping of Digital Research, on 12 March 2012.

1. The Social Shaping of Digital Research
Bill Dutton
Oxford Internet Institute
Oxford e-Social Science (OeSS) Symposium
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2. What is the
social shaping What is the social
of technology? shaping of digital
research?

3. How the Social Sciences Support Digital Research
Challenging Taken-for-Granted Assumptions
Understanding Methodological
Opportunities and Limitations
Providing Context to Data
Identifying Social, Ethical and Legal Issues
Studying the Social Shaping of Technology

4. • Momentum, path dependencies
Bias of Technology • Reconfiguring access
• Digital Research
Innovation • Collaboratories
• Crowdsourcing
• Human-Computer Interaction
User Centric • Computerization Movements
• Socio-Technical Interaction Networks (STIN)
Social and Technical • Social Shaping of Technical Choices
Social Construction of • Actor Network Theory (ANT)
Technology • Infrastructure Studies
Institutionalist • Political economy
• Ecology of Games
Perspectives
Critical Turns on • Edisons of the Digital Age (Carr)
Digital Research • Critical political economy (exploitation of unpaid labor)

5. Contributions
Multiple SST Growing Area
of Social
Perspectives of Research
Sciences

6. The Social Shaping of Digital Research
Bill Dutton
Oxford Internet Institute
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