Clarissa AL Lee's Lateral Worlds

I am going to start making a citation of all relevant works that have been already done or in process which are relevant to my own dissertation project, in this blog. Hence, this post will be updated each time a new citation is added. 1. A philosophical experiment: empirical study of knowledge production at the LHC - Borrelli, Ariana

             “Sociocultural Meanings of Nanotechnology: Research Methodologies” by William Sims Bainbridge is primarily a methods paper that presents an overview of the kind of qualitative research methodologies proposed for studying the sociocultural conditions of nanoscience/nanotechnology. I chose this paper because it discusses in detail the sort of qualitative methods I intend to use for my own research. As my own work focuses on high energy particle physics, the paper helps me define more concretely the boundaries of qualitative methods I can employ for my own research, especially as I am looking at developing different forms of interview questions and survey questionnaires, as well as mixed-methods content- analysis of reports, codes, publications . In addition, I want to analyze the overall knowledge dissemination and transmission industry involved in the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge and other ...

Wrote this in Oct 2010 while thinking through a host of material related to my work before my prelims the following year, and also after my summer visit at CERN. I think it is a good time to republish it here, from my main blog , since it deals with questions relating to science fiction and science studies that I am also working through. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the past year, I have been watching science fiction TV and film, initially because of my job as a TA for a science fiction class. That got me back in the habit of my teenaged and early adult years of watching SF TV series and films, and thanks to Netflix, I was able to relive that moment in my past, but as a more savvy (and much older) adult. My choice of science fiction novels do not fall under the conventional rubric of SF and fantasy, as I've always been more fascinated by mundane science fiction with its thrillin...

This is my first year attending Science Online . It is pretty terrible that this conference has been running for quite a number of years (six?) and I only learnt of it sometime in the Fall of 2011. And it was at an open science talk by Michael Nielsen at Duke University, which I stumbled upon serendipitiously. However, after picking up the postcard with the whole Science Online thing that I knew nothing about and then sticking it up at the carrell of my office, I promptly forgot, busied with so many things grad school while trying to settle into the dissertation writing phase of my graduate career.            Ironically, it was between the period I found out, but missing out in 2012 because I forgot to register early even as I was also a part of the organization team for another conference hosted by my department that same weekend, and then getting myself a spot this year at the last minute (thanks Karyn!) that an increasing amount of ...