iConference 2010 Workshops

Youth Community Informatics Workshop

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Wednesday, February 3.
Cost: $50/student fee: $25 (Meals and materials included) Register here.

Participants will engage in hands-on activities around the use of new media for community inquiry, including GIS/GPS, and digital video. They will learn about the Youth Community Informatics project and how to do similar work in other settings. A highlight is presentations and activities led by youth currently involved in YCI sites. Maximum of 20 participants.

Study of Sociotechnical Systems Workshop

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Wednesday, February 3.
Organizers: Steven Jackson, University of Michigan; David Ribes, Georgetown University; Sean Goggins, Drexel University
Cost: $50//student fee: $25 (Meals and materials included) Register here.

To see “who we are”, check out the Facebook group – “Researchers of the Sociotechnical” or our website at http://www.sociotech.net.

The workshop builds on and extends efforts that have included the 2008 & 2009 Summer Research Institute of the Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST). These Research Institutes, supported by the National Science Foundation and held at the University of Michigan (2008) and Syracuse University (2009), brought together a diverse set of researchers from fields as diverse as science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, management and organizational studies, library and information science, sociology, social informatics, and computer science, to begin exploring and framing a future research agenda centered on socio-technical research.