Trevor Pinch, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Trevor Pinch’s main research centers on five areas: (1) the sociology of technology and how users engage with technology, (2) sound studies and music and in particular how sonic technologies and listening cultures develop, (3) understanding the role of materiality and agency in technology, (4) markets and the economy with specific attention to the study of selling, persuasion, and entrepreneurship.
Richard Swedberg, Sociology, Cornell University
Richard Swedberg’s education has revolved around law as well as sociology; his two main areas of research are economic sociology and social theory. From early on he has been fascinated by social theory; and today he is especially focused on theorizing — what theorizing is and how it can be taught to students through practical exercises. His recent books, The Art of Social Theory and Theorizing in Social Science were published in 2014.
Howard Becker, Sociologist
Howard Becker is an American sociologist who has made major contributions to the sociologist of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. Becker also wrote extensively on sociological writing styles and methodologies.
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Experience with Artists/Experiences with Social Scientists, Howard S. Becker, Sociologist
The Outside Game How the sociologist Howard Becker studies the conventions of the unconventional. BY ADAM GOPNIK
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/12/outside-game
Mabel Berezin, Sociology, Cornell University
Mabel Berezin’s research asks how shared cultural meanings and practices shape 1) political institutions such as the state; 2) social processes around political movements and ideologies; and 3) agents through the construction of political identities. Her current work focuses on contemporary sites of social, political and cultural change.
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Social Science as Bricolage: Connection, Improvisation and Recycling, Mabel Berezin, Sociology, Cornell
Steven Jackson, Information Science, Cornell University
Steven Jackson teaches and conducts research in the areas of scientific collaboration, technology policy, democratic governance, and global development. More specifically, he studies how people organize, fight, and work together around collective projects of all sorts in which technology plays a central role.
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Learning and Collaboration Across the Art/Social Science Divide, Steven Jackson, Information Science, Cornell, and Taezoo Park, Interactive Media Artist and Artist-in-Residence, Lower East Side Ecology Center, New York, New York
Taezoo Park, Artist-in-Residence
Taezoo Park is digital artist based in Brooklyn NY whose work explores media and digital technologies linking together the ideal and real. Park pushes new artistic forms through his unique use of digital media, emphasizing the existent ‘character’ within a technology.
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Learning and Collaboration Across the Art/Social Science Divide, Steven Jackson, Information Science, Cornell, and Taezoo Park, Interactive Media Artist and Artist-in-Residence, Lower East Side Ecology Center, New York, New York
Andreas Glaeser, Sociology, University of Chicago
Andreas Glaeser is a hermeneutic sociologist working at the University of Chicago. His current interests lie in the areas of general social theory, especially social ontology, as well as in political epistemologies with a particular emphasis on the role of social imaginaries in politics. He is working on two books. The first, provisionally entitled Political Transcendences, investigates the historical articulation of three sets of ideas namely monotheism, essentialism, and sovereignty, each positing the existence of entities that are at once absolutely removed from political interference, while at the same time constituting a space for political action. The book shows how these ideas were developed as answers to challenges of existence, crisis of authority, and pressures of internal pluralization going hand in hand with previous failures of political knowledge making. The second book has the working title Social Life. It argues on the basis of a critical social ontology for a radically processualist understanding of human beings’ existence in relation to each other both in its more fixed and its more fluid expressions. The book intends to provide an analytical framework for analyses of larger social wholes, for obtaininga better understanding of the interaction of natural and social processes, as well for an ethics of institutional arrangements.
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Towards a Dialetics of Creativity, Andreas Glaeser, Sociology, University of Chicago
Susan Ossman, Anthropology, UC Riverside
Susan Ossman’s analyses of globalization developed as she carried out fieldwork on media, mobility, aesthetics, gender and politics in sites that span North Africa, Europe, North America and the Middle East. Her innovative designs for mobile ethnography are related to her life of international migration, her experiences directing international collaborative projects and her practice as an artist.
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Fusion, Counterpoint, Transposition, Susan Ossman, Anthropology, UC Riverside
Natalie Jeremijenko, Art and Art Education, New York University
Awarded the 2013 Most Innovative People, named one of the most influential women in technology 2011, a top young innovators by MIT Technology Review and 40 of the most influential designers, Jeremijenko directs the Environmental Health Clinic, and is an Associate Professor in the Visual Art Department, NYU. She’s also affiliated with the Computer Science Department and Environmental Studies program.
http://www.nataliejeremijenko.com/
Damon Phillips, Business Strategy, Columbia
Professor Phillips has expertise in social structural approaches to labor and product markets, entrepreneurship, innovation, organizational strategy and structure, as well as social network theory and analysis. Professor Phillips has been on the editorial board of the Administrative Science Quarterly, an Associate Editor with Management Science, and was a Consulting Editor at the American Journal of Sociology.
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Learning from Creation Narratives, Damon Phillips, Business Strategy, Columbia Business School
Franck Leibovici, Artist, Paris.
His project, forms of life, reveals alternative images of what an art practice is. With the help of Les Laboratoires d’ Aubervilliers, he asked some 200 artists to invent visualisations of their ecology of practices. Any medium could be used.
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devices of writing – how to catch them?, Franck Leibovici, Artist, Paris
