Josephine B. Schmitt (CAIS) and Silvio Suckow (Weizenbaum Institute) are organising a panel on the topic “Research in and about interdisciplinary fields – new needs for organizing, practicing and evaluating science?!”. This panel will examine whether and how interdisciplinary research can be organised, practiced and evaluated in the current, still rather disciplinary science system. Samuel T. Simon (CAIS) will make a contribution to this panel. In his presentation “Facilitating interdisciplinary research – a new organising role addressing new needs in interdisciplinary research fields”, he will present the results of an interview study with researchers and practitioners. As part of this study, he analyses the role of a facilitator in overcoming the challenges of interdisciplinary research.
Interdisciplinary research is also the subject of the contribution by Silvio Suckow (Weizenbaum Institute) and Josephine B. Schmitt (CAIS) “Evaluation of interdisciplinary teams in academic research – development of a scale to assess the quality of interdisciplinary collaboration in digitisation research”. Based on group discussions with researchers from CAIS, Weizenbaum Institute and bidt, they will present and discuss considerations for the development of an instrument for evaluating the process of interdisciplinary collaboration in digitisation research.
In their presentation on “Co-creating research on digital transformation: the research innovation hub”, Josephine B. Schmitt (CAIS) and Samuel T. Simon (CAIS) will discuss how co-creation with different societal stakeholders and thus an innovative framework that promotes the co-creation of interdisciplinary digitalisation research from the outset and ensures integrative and responsible research can succeed.
In her contribution “Orange walls, “Hollywood AI”, and a robot vacuum cleaner: exhibiting artificial intelligence in German museums”,Alisa Maksimova (CAIS) analyses how AI is presented and negotiated in museums. She analyses nine current exhibitions in Germany.
In contrast, various contributions in a panel organised by Hendrik Heuer (CAIS, Bergische Universität Wuppertal) and colleagues entitled “Digital ghost work: human presences in AI transformations” will deal with the socio-technical changes that AI brings to working life. The aim is to critically analyse hidden work (“ghost work”) and the far-reaching effects of advances in AI from a variety of perspectives.
This year, the quadrennial joint conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) invites you to Amsterdam from 16 July to 19 July for panel discussions, presentations, contributions on “Making & Doing” and other events focusing on the role of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in developing and implementing contributions to change in a time of major societal challenges.
Link to the conference: https://www.easst4s2024.net/