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The Quality Commons
Maison de la Recherche
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28, rue Serpente
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The Centre for Research in Social Simulation (University of Surrey, UK) and the Centre d'Analyse et Mathématique Sociales (EHESS/CNRS, France) are hosting QualityCommons, a workshop bringing together contributions from a range of fields, including sociology, anthropology, economy, social epistemology, social psychology, cognitive science, social computing and complexity science, and offering the opportunity to develop ideas with a selected interdisciplinary audience.
The aims of the workshop are to:
As these few examples illustrate, shared representations of quality may be only vaguely related to objective features of what is being evaluated: these representations are often in continuous flux and the process behind their production is intrinsically social. Competing evaluations of the quality of the same artefacts may coexist and evolve as a function of the different communities that sustain them.
Although collective quality assessment processes are a very widespread and important characteristic of human societies, they have rarely been treated as a topic for empirical enquiry. We have few recent studies of questions such as:
The aims of the workshop are to:
- clarify research questions about the emergence of collective quality definitions
- consider preliminary ideas about the topic as applied to a number of domains (e.g. science, social computing, art, etc.)
- promote links between participants to encourage the development and submission of research proposals on the topic
- plan the writing of an edited book/special journal issue with chapters partly contributed by the participants and partly solicited via an open call for papers after the workshop.
As these few examples illustrate, shared representations of quality may be only vaguely related to objective features of what is being evaluated: these representations are often in continuous flux and the process behind their production is intrinsically social. Competing evaluations of the quality of the same artefacts may coexist and evolve as a function of the different communities that sustain them.
Although collective quality assessment processes are a very widespread and important characteristic of human societies, they have rarely been treated as a topic for empirical enquiry. We have few recent studies of questions such as:
- how do shared conceptions of quality emerge within communities?
- how do these conceptions develop over time? Are there patterns in the dynamics?
- how are standards of quality enforced within communities?
- do the processes of quality definition and evaluation differ between, for example, communities involved in peer production (e.g. science) and those mostly involved in consumption (e.g. music)?`
- are there similarities in the processes of collective quality assessment in off-line and on-line collectives (e.g. local communities and social networking sites)?
- what are the implications of centralised vs. distributed control for the production of collective quality representations?
- how are collective quality assessment processes affected by individual incentives, organised action or institutional policies?
- what are the effects of social network properties on processes of collective quality assessment?
Date
- du jeudi 28 janvier 2010 à 10h au vendredi 29 janvier 2010 à 15h30
Contact
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Camille Roth (roth@ehess.fr) CAMS - 54, bd Raspail 75270 Paris Cedex 06
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