Open Research Data?

This Blogpost, aiming at compiling a definition of Open Research Data, highlighting the implactions Open Notebook Science has on scientific practices and discussing the issues on how reputation regimes in academia for the moment are unable to keep track with developments in research practices, has been started in the context of the University of Seminar Open Science, the better science? with Katja Mayer. As such one of the characteristics of the text is the fulfillment of the formal and contentual requirements of the course. Second the text also aims at being an experiment in synchronous reviewing. Thus it has initially been published in an early stage of process and will be completed and edited. This is why I would like to invite you to openly comment on the text and start an open synchronous review experiment here.

The (ironic?) search for credibility and transparency in STS

By Daniel Marante

- The following text was written on assignment for the seminar Open Science: The Better Science? taught by Prof.: Katja Mayer; Faculty of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna, in January 2016 -

Abstract

In this blog post I review the practices suggested by some founders of The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences and authors of the article “Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research” (E. Miguel et al., 2014) and reflect on their application over the fundamental arguments and key concepts of the STS field taught by the University of Vienna in its STS MA Program. I have done this because of my deep intellectual preoccupation when reasoning and understanding the way some influent STS scholars philosophically conceive the world as they perform research and particularly, when they try to explain not the social aspects intertwined inside the scientific institution, but the foundations, methods and implications of science itself.