Katja Mayer
Katja Mayer studied sociology, physics and philosophy at the University of Vienna. Before starting to work as research associate of the president of the European Research Council in 2011, she has worked as sociologist in research and applied fields, as science communication officer, and as IT consultant.
From 1996-2000 she was employed at Public Netbase/Institute of New Cultural Technologies, Vienna, where she was responsible for content development, research and production of lecture series and exhibitions.
From 2009-2011 she worked at the Information Retrieval Facility, a research platform for search engine science.
She has been teaching at the Department of Social Studies of Science and Technology, the Department of Sociology, both University of Vienna, at the Art University Linz, and at the Danube University Krems.
Twitter: @katja_mat
From 1996-2000 she was employed at Public Netbase/Institute of New Cultural Technologies, Vienna, where she was responsible for content development, research and production of lecture series and exhibitions.
From 2009-2011 she worked at the Information Retrieval Facility, a research platform for search engine science.
She has been teaching at the Department of Social Studies of Science and Technology, the Department of Sociology, both University of Vienna, at the Art University Linz, and at the Danube University Krems.
Twitter: @katja_mat
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SEE HERE: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2018.1509700
Katja Mayer (2009) On the sociometry of search engines: a historical review of methods, in: K. Becker, F. Stalder (Eds.): Deep Search. The politics of search beyond Google, Edison, NJ: Transaction, p. 54-72
Teaching Documents by Katja Mayer
SEE HERE: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2018.1509700
Katja Mayer (2009) On the sociometry of search engines: a historical review of methods, in: K. Becker, F. Stalder (Eds.): Deep Search. The politics of search beyond Google, Edison, NJ: Transaction, p. 54-72
But how can this integration actually be done? There is no simple formula to answer this question. The conference “Horizons for Social Sciences and Humanities” thus sets out to explore in details the requirements for integration of SSH, as well as the offerings through integration – the knowledge, methods and experience over a wide range of phenomena and problem spaces.
The first day of the conference is dedicated to reflecting the status of SSH in Europe and the challenges ahead. The keynotes will address issues which affect and cross all SSH disciplines and fields: diversity and common grounds; training and education; impact and evaluation. On the second day, the conference will turn to more operational issues, other than in previous European Research Framework programmes. “Societal Challenges”, the third pillar of “Horizon 2020”, aims at fully integrating Social Sciences and Humanities. It is understood that only if complementarity and integration of all concerned disciplines can be achieved, answers to the societal challenges will emerge.
Based on the reflections of the first day, the major part of day two will be dedicated to parallel workgroups, one for each challenge. The parallel sessions will bring together and confront experts who are experienced and genuinely interested in finding novel forms of integrative collaboration. They will aim at identifying existing obstacles and ways of overcoming them and suggest concrete ways of how to move forward.
The conference will be concluded by the handing-over of the Vilnius Declaration to the Lithuanian Minister of Education and Science. It aims at generally defining the roles of SSH and conditions for their successful integration. In addition, a detailed Conference Report will be published shortly after the conference, entailing all details from the parallel sessions and containing concrete suggestions how to integrate SSH into the seven challenges.
This conference is unique, not only because it aims at discussing how to best operationalize the integration of SSH, but also because it offers a forum for SSH – a forum that, in the future, might promote scholarly exchange across fields and disciplines, set common guidelines for quality standards and evaluations, and provide adequate representation in the EU policy arena
Digital technologies are increasingly facilitating the collective generation of data, particularly in terms of the mushrooming of crowd-sourced data initiatives in a variety of fields across the sciences, politics, and industry. Citizen Science has been mostly promoted as a method to increase the scale and efficiency of data collection in a widespread variety of disciplines; in scientific research, particularly in environmental science, astronomy, biology, and in the social sciences, particularly in political science, market research, sociology of social movements and urban planning. However, most initiatives working with citizen scientists include them only in certain steps of the research process, rather than more systematically and from the outset. In many projects, participants are assigned a passive role by design; they are mainly confined to data gathering, and are typically excluded from research design, analysis, and interpretation. Despite the vast potential of active citizenship for Citizen Social Science: active citizenship vs. data commodification evidence based "good governance", participants are frequently restricted to act as mere sensors, or data producers, rather than data owners or advocates in their own right. Moreover, it is widely debated how sustainable the involvement of citizens via digital platforms can be, particularly in terms of renewing or maintaining citizen enthusiasm and motivation to participate.
The aim of this collection is twofold: to explore the drivers and barriers to the systemic participation of citizens in all research phases to produce socially robust knowledge outcomes; and to open up the debate on the possibilities of blending, overlapping or confronting the different participatory methodologies already present in the field of social sciences, and the current approaches in citizen science projects.