VOSS: Collaborative Research: Agency, Structure, and Organization: Paths to Participation in Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems

VOSS：协作研究：机构、结构和组织：参与大规模社会技术系统的路径

• 批准号: 1322270
• 负责人: Coye Cheshire
• 金额: $ 20.76万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1322270&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: VOSS; Collaborative; Research; Agency; Structure

This project advances the study of socio-technical systems and social participation by investigating how system design, structure and agency are associated with different paths to participation in technology-mediated social participation (TMSP) systems. Online systems create organizational structural constraints and affordances by design, and therefore channel the potential for human agency -- roles, responsibilities and actions -- in ways that are not usually possible in the offline world. The project employs a mixed-methods design to examine collective behavior in different TMSP systems using longitudinal surveys and behavioral log data. In addition, this research includes a series of field experiments to test specific relationships between structural and organizational designs that facilitate collective outcomes and paths to participation. The project?s intellectual merits include: (i) developing a rigorous understanding of how social participation changes over time as a result of systems design, socio-technical structure and human agency; (ii) extending the long history of social scientific theories and empirical research on collective behavior, motivation, and community participation in both laboratory and real world environments; and, (iii) developing specific recommendations and design guidelines for future TMSP and citizen science systems.This project will foster increased public participation in TMSP systems, and increased scholarly awareness of technology-mediated collaborations and citizen science as effective research resources. It will also encourage cross-disciplinary, cross-campus collaboration, by connecting scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, to study and advance TMSP research. In addition, it will contribute to education, by providing opportunities for students to reason about, design and implement new TMSP systems to connect large numbers of distributed volunteers with social needs.

该项目通过调查系统设计、结构和代理如何与技术介导的社会参与（TMSP）系统的不同参与路径相关联，推进对社会技术系统和社会参与的研究。在线系统通过设计创造了组织结构约束和可供性，因此以线下世界通常不可能的方式发挥人类代理的潜力——角色、责任和行动。该项目采用混合方法设计，利用纵向调查和行为日志数据来检查不同 TMSP 系统中的集体行为。此外，这项研究还包括一系列现场实验，以测试结构和组织设计之间的具体关系，以促进集体成果和参与路径。 该项目的智力优点包括：（i）对社会参与如何因系统设计、社会技术结构和人类能动性而随时间变化产生严格的理解； (ii) 扩展社会科学理论和关于实验室和现实世界环境中的集体行为、动机和社区参与的实证研究的悠久历史； (iii) 为未来 TMSP 和公民科学系统制定具体建议和设计指南。该项目将促进公众更多地参与 TMSP 系统，并提高学术界对技术介导的合作和公民科学作为有效研究资源的认识。 它还将通过连接来自不同学科背景的学者来鼓励跨学科、跨校园的合作，以研究和推进 TMSP 研究。 此外，它将为学生提供推理、设计和实施新的 TMSP 系统的机会，将大量分布式志愿者与社会需求联系起来，从而为教育做出贡献。