Social Science Perspectives on e-Science

Organisers

Dr Ralph Schroeder, University of Oxford, UK

Dr Nicholas Jankowski, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Organiser Biographies

Ralph Schroeder is a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University. He is an investigator on the Oxford e-Social Science (OeSS) Project: Ethical, Legal and Institutional Dynamics of e-Sciences. His publications include the forthcoming Rethinking Science, Technology and Social Change (Stanford: Stanford University Press), Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic of Virtual Reality Technology (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996) and the edited collections ‘The Social Life of Avatars: Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments’ ( London : Springer 2002) and (co-edited with Ann-Sofie Axelsson) ‘Avatars at Work and Play: Collaboration and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments’ (London: Springer 2005).

Nicholas W. Jankowski is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has been involved in the study of new media and research methodology since the mid-1970s. Books he has co-edited include: The Peoples Voice: Local Radio and Television in Europe (Libbey, 1992); The Contours of Multimedia (Luton, 1996); Community Media in the Information Age (Hampton, 2002); and A Handbook of Qualitative Methodologies for Mass Communication Research (Routledge, 1991). He is preparing a theme issues of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication on e-Science. He is initiator and co-editor of the journal New Media & Society.