The Social Scientist's Bit

How Scientists Modulate the Social

This article employs the notion of translation introduced in ANT literature to study the current bio-fuel development in Indonesia. Despite the presence of some activities by scientists, businessmen, policy makers, and farmers, diffusion of bio-fuel innovation seems to remain very limited. The article aims at understanding the bio-fuel development trajectory by seeking to disclose a variety of ...

The Social Responsibilities of Scientists.

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Collaboration Among Social Scientists

In this workshop paper we describe a preliminary study of collaboration practices among social scientists. Based on interviews with 10 social science researchers we describe how they rely on local networks as well as very tight-knit international communities. Their technology use differed according to need and particularly opportunity. Author

Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists

NCeSS Project: Data Mining for Social Scientists

We will discuss the work being undertaken on the NCeSS data mining project, a one year project at the University of Manchester which began at the start of 2007, to develop data mining tools of value to the social science community. Our primary goal is to produce a suite of data mining codes, supported by a web interface, to allow social scientists to mine their datasets in a straightforward way...