Fostering Interdisciplinarity: Implications for Social Sciences

Interdisciplinarity and Peirce’s classification of the Sciences: A Centennial Reassessment

This paper discusses the American scientist and philosopher Charles S. Peirce’s (1839–1914) classiacation of the sciences from the contemporary perspective of interdisciplinary studies. Three theses are defended: (1) Studies on interdisciplinarity pertain to the intermediate class of Peirce’s classiacation of all science, the sciences of review (retrospective science), ranking below the science...

Fostering National Research Networks: The Case of Turkish Coauthorship Patterns in the Social Sciences

We analyse the coauthorship networks of researchers affiliated at universities in Turkey by using two databases: the international SSCI database and the Turkish ULAKBIM database. We find that coauthorship networks are composed largely of isolated groups, permitting little knowledge diffusion. Moreover, there seems to be two disparate populations of researchers. While some scholars publish mostl...

(Information Processing Across the Sciences) Info-Metrics in the Natural Sciences and Its Implications for the Social Sciences

Info-Metrics in the Natural Sciences and Its Implications for the Social Sciences Amos Golan (American University and Info-Metrics) The study of information, the philosophy of information and entropy as a method of inference provides a unified approach to inference and learning across the disciplines. The Info-Metrics Institute promotes the study of information, information processing and optim...

in Humanities , Social Sciences , and Natural Sciences

Asynchronous Communication: Fostering Social Interaction with CollaboraTV

With the advent of digital video recorders and video-on-demand services, the way in which we consume media is undergoing a fundamental change. People today are less likely to watch shows at the same time, let alone the same place. As a result, television viewing which was once a social activity has been reduced to a passive, isolated experience. CollaboraTV was designed to address this new mode...