From cecc at uw.edu Tue Nov 15 19:06:48 2022 From: cecc at uw.edu (Leah M Ceccarelli) Date: Mon Mar 25 09:44:37 2024 Subject: [Ssnet_list] FW: WI 23 Graduate Seminar in Rhetoric of Health and Medicine In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Here is a course that might be of interest to SSNet subscribers. Please pass this along to any graduate students at UW who you think might want to enroll. Graduate Seminar in Winter 2023, COM 597: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (SLN 12769) How do we persuade people to make healthy choices? What counts as an illness or disease, and why? What does it mean to be healthy, anyway? Especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have an intuitive sense that matters of health are more than mere facts of biology. But how, exactly, do different social, political, and medical contexts shape our practices of and discourses about health? As an emerging field of inquiry, the rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) approaches the study of health communication through the lens of critical theory and with the tools of rhetorical criticism. This graduate seminar will take as our starting point that language and argument are major factors shaping our conceptualization of health. From there, we'll explore how health is understood in relation to wellness, illness, and disability, and how the meaning of health has become a site of argument and controversy. We will survey emergent RHM scholarship and discuss how health intersects with power, identity, policy, and activism. In doing so, this course will equip you with an awareness of what makes a rhetorical perspective distinct from and complementary to other approaches to studying health. COM 597, WI 23 | Tuesdays 10:30-1:20 | in-person modality Any graduate students interested in the politics of health, health and difference, the medical humanities, and critical health studies are welcome! Please email Amanda Friz (afriz@uw.edu) for more information. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tanweer at uw.edu Mon Nov 28 08:47:08 2022 From: tanweer at uw.edu (Anissa Tanweer) Date: Mon Mar 25 09:44:37 2024 Subject: [Ssnet_list] STS research on the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Message-ID: We are pleased to announce an opportunity for UW students to get involved with a study of the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Participating students will register for Directed Research Group (DRG) credits in the Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington, and enrollment is open to students from other departments. Details are provided below and can also be found here . The application for enrollment in the DRG can be found here . --- The Production of Astronomical Knowledge in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) We are seeking a small group of 2-4 doctoral, masters and/or undergraduate students interested in studying the Vera C. Rubin Observatory?s Legacy Survey of Space and Time. The Rubin Observatory in Chile is slated to come online next year and begin the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), a wide angle, decade-long survey of the southern night sky. The LSST will leverage the largest digital camera ever created to produce what has been described as a 10-year long high definition video of the cosmos. This will give scientists the ability to track changes and movement over time, and in turn ask fundamental questions about the past and future of our solar system, the composition of the universe, and much more. The telescope will produce data of unprecedented size and speed, churning out 20 terabytes of raw data nightly and hundreds of petabytes of processed data over the course of the decade. Data releases will be made available broadly within the astronomy community at regular intervals, some nightly and some annually. The scale, immediacy, and openness of LSST data will ostensibly obviate many of the tradeoffs that characterized the preceding era of optical astronomy by sidestepping competition for access and observing time at scarce facilities. As such, LSST has the potential to democratize the field of astronomy by dramatically increasing access to astronomical data. At the same time, LSST data can only be made useful through the collaborative development and use of novel computational tools and techniques capable of handling the volume and velocity of data produced by the Rubin telescope. As such, the LSST has been imagined and structured as a convergent endeavor involving coordination and sense-making among astrophysicists, data scientists, and software engineers. Students in this DRG will be part of exploratory research that will kick off longer-term ethnographic inquiry into the LSST project and the communities that support it. Some of the broad questions that may be of interest include: - What does the role of software in analyzing LSST mean for who gets included in the production of astronomical knowledge? - How does LSST membership, access to LSST data, and access to software tools mediate the production of scientific knowledge across various kinds of teams, experts, and institutions? - How does the availability of LSST data open up new directions of inquiry in astronomy, and what are the implications for how the field?and society more broadly?come to understand the universe? This DRG will be jointly led by Dr. Anissa Tanweer , Research Scientist at the eScience Institute and Will Sutherland , PhD Candidate in HCDE, with supervision and guidance from Dr. Charlotte Lee of HCDE. Our own goal in this project is to better understand the negotiation of access in this new model of big data astronomy exemplified by the LSST. We anticipate that students will benefit from the following opportunities in this DRG: - Development of qualitative ethnographic research skills, including interviews, field observations, and/or documentary analysis - Exposure to theories about the organization of knowledge production - Window into the making of cutting-edge scientific research - Contribution to the early stages of planning for long term ethnographic research with the chance to influence the trajectory of that work - Possibility of longer-term collaborations Logistics - This DRG is open to doctoral, master?s and undergraduate students interested in taking 3-5 DRG credits in Winter ?23. - Non-HCDE students are permitted to enroll. - We also anticipate running this DRG in Spring ?23 and hope for continuity among participants. - The DRG will likely meet on the sixth floor of the Physics/Astronomy Tower (location will be confirmed later). - The meeting day and time will be one that is agreed upon by all participants. - Interested students should fill out this application form . -- Anissa Tanweer Research Scientist, eScience Institute Program Chair, Data Science Studies Special Interest Group Program Chair, Data Science for Social Good Affiliate Faculty, Department of Communication University of Washington Pronouns: she/her or they/them -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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