MCA: Understanding Logistics Through Multimodal Experiments in Ethnography

MCA：通过民族志中的多模式实验了解物流

• 批准号: 2121737
• 负责人: Julie Chu
• 金额: $ 37.44万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2121737&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MCA; Understanding; Logistics; Through; Multimodal

Once seen as a mere add-on to manufacturing concerns in the market, logistics – that is, the management of flows in goods, information and people - has transformed into a more general condition of how things circulate through everyday life. On the one hand, innovation in supply chain logistics has revolutionized how goods are produced and consumed as well as how labor, land, and infrastructures are organized to support an increasingly on-demand global economy. On the other hand, logistical failures or interruptions – for example, in the malfunctioning of web services for businesses or in the shortage of medical supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic – can spark various political and economic crises over expected movements and just allocations. Such crises bring public attention to the importance of logistics in shaping global flows and interdependence. This project broadens the participation of underrepresented groups in data science, and includes a built-in training component that contributes to the improvement of student STEM education in critical fields. This project advances research on the growing social impact of logistics as an indispensable way of organizing and understanding contemporary relations of mobility, economy, security, and the environment. Recognizing that the rise of logistics is integrally tied to ubiquitous computing and its related digital networks of sensors, scanners, interfaces, and infrastructures, the researcher will pursue a program of exploratory research and training for developing new multimodal methods for better engaging and representing the hidden computational and infrastructural designs that power logistical worlds. Through training in digital coding and data visualization with an expert and through a series of experimental field schools for advancing collaborative research among an interdisciplinary set of scholars in key logistical hotspots around the world, the project fosters creative synergies between anthropology, computer science, and media arts while pursuing a comparative study of how logistics shapes the various entangled flows of people, things and data in global circulation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

曾经被视为市场上的制造业问题的一个附加组件，物流（即商品，信息和人员流量的管理）已转变为更普遍的条件，即事物在每天生活中如何流通。一方面，供应链物流的创新彻底改变了商品的生产方式以及劳动力，土地和基础设施的组织方式，以支持日益达到全球的全球经济。另一方面，后勤失败或中断（例如，在企业的网络服务故障中，或者在COVID-19大流行中的医疗用品短缺中可能会引发各种政治和经济危机，而不是预期的运动和分配。这种危机引起了公众对物流在塑造全球流量和相互依存的重要性的关注。该项目扩大了代表性不足的小组参与数据科学的参与，并包括一个内置培训部分，有助于改善关键领域的学生STEM教育。该项目推进了有关物流的日益增长的社会影响的研究，这是一种组织和理解流动性，经济，安全和环境的当代关系的必不可少的方式。认识到物流的兴起与无处不在的计算及其相关的传感器，扫描仪，界面和基础架构的数字网络息息相关，研究人员将探讨一项探索性研究和培训计划，以开发新的多模式方法，以更好地参与和代表隐藏的计算和基础架构设计，以推动隐藏的计算和基础结构设计。通过与专家进行数字编码和数据可视化培训，并通过一系列实验室学校在世界各地的关键后勤热点中的一组跨学科的学者之间进行协作研究，该项目促进了人类学，计算机科学和媒体艺术之间的创造性协同效应，同时追求各种物流构成各种既定的人，并构成各个人的范围，这些东西是各个方面和数据的范围。法定使命，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准通过评估被认为是宝贵的支持。