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Nov192007
Bio
Monday, November 19, 2007 at 02:25PM
David Ribes joined Georgetown University's Communication, Culture and Technology Program (CCT) in the fall of 2008 as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Science Studies (STS) from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) (2006), and came to Georgetown University from the University of Michigan where he did a post-doc at the School of Information. His masters is from McGill University in Montreal and his Bachelors is from York University in Toronto.
David's research and teaching interests, which lie at the intersection of sociology, philosophy and history of science&technology, have focused on the emerging phenomena of Cyberinfrastructure (or networked information technologies for the support of science) and how these are transforming the practice and organization of contemporary knowledge production e.g., distributed and interdisciplinary scientific collaboration; novel data visualization technologies; user studies; knowledge representation, and science policy. His primary methods are ethnographic and archival.
David has several articles published in major peer-reviewed journals, including Information and Organization, and the Journal of the Association of Information Systems. He has a chapter in the 2008 MIT Press edited volume (Olson, Zimmerman, Bos) 'Scientific Collaboration on the Internet'. He is also co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (JCSCW) on Cyberinfrastructure and eScience. David is currently a PI on two National Science Foundation grants studying the consequences of novel information technologies on the work of scientists and exploring new patterns of distributed collaboration.
As a member CCT, he teaches the course “Infrastructure Studies: Knowledge, Distribution and Power” and a variety of other offerings, such as an introduction to Science and Technology Studies, and methodology courses on grounded theory and qualitative studies of technology.
David grew up in Ottawa and Madrid. He's had six parakeets and they've all been called Budgie.
David's research and teaching interests, which lie at the intersection of sociology, philosophy and history of science&technology, have focused on the emerging phenomena of Cyberinfrastructure (or networked information technologies for the support of science) and how these are transforming the practice and organization of contemporary knowledge production e.g., distributed and interdisciplinary scientific collaboration; novel data visualization technologies; user studies; knowledge representation, and science policy. His primary methods are ethnographic and archival.
David has several articles published in major peer-reviewed journals, including Information and Organization, and the Journal of the Association of Information Systems. He has a chapter in the 2008 MIT Press edited volume (Olson, Zimmerman, Bos) 'Scientific Collaboration on the Internet'. He is also co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (JCSCW) on Cyberinfrastructure and eScience. David is currently a PI on two National Science Foundation grants studying the consequences of novel information technologies on the work of scientists and exploring new patterns of distributed collaboration.
As a member CCT, he teaches the course “Infrastructure Studies: Knowledge, Distribution and Power” and a variety of other offerings, such as an introduction to Science and Technology Studies, and methodology courses on grounded theory and qualitative studies of technology.
David grew up in Ottawa and Madrid. He's had six parakeets and they've all been called Budgie.
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