On 28 Oct – 1 Nov 2009, several individuals from our research group will be presenting at the Society for the Social Studies of Science conference in Washington, D.C. Papers were proposed into two sessions:

Monitoring, Modeling and Memory (I): New Scientific Infrastructures

• Jillian Wallis. Monitoring the natural world with science and technology.
• Paul Edwards. Frame Work: coordination and conflict in the Earth System Modeling Framework.
• Mikaela Sundberg. Organizing Simulation Code Collectives.
• Sonja Palfner. The Complexity of the Simple: building a data networking infrastructure for climate research in Germany.
• Tom Finholt. The Long Now of Infrastructure: articulating tensions in development.
• Victor Quintanar-Zilinskas. The Long and Short of Cyberinfrastructural Memory.

Monitoring, Modeling and Memory (II): Methods for the study of cyberinfrastructure (and other large distributed phenomena)

• David Fearon. Using nVivo software to support collaborative qualitative research and information workflow.
• David Ribes. Tracing the oligopticons of large technology projects.
• Alberto Pepe. Data collection and network analytic methods for cyberinfrastructure studies.
• Andrea Wiggins. Tales of the Field: Building Small Science Cyberinfrastructure.
• Susan Leigh Star. Outsourcing Ethics, Outsourcing Methods.