Description of work
The project is highly interdisciplinary. This workpackage is devoted to the problem of creating a common area of understanding. We apply here the concept of Peter Galison of a “trading zone” in a pragmatic way by trying to create our own “trading zone” actively. At the beginning of the project the focus is on the development of a common understanding of the networks under study. We will address questions like: What are the actors and their links? How they can be operationalized and measured? What kind of complexity is required from a social science perspective – connected networks, networks disturbed by external forces? What kind of processes are described by mathematical models? How these processes can be observed in real networks?
Parallel to all workpackages, in WP6 the progress of common understanding will be analysed and documented in a glossary of notions and concepts.
At the end of the overall project in this workpackage the different model descriptions, the data descriptions and the visual descriptions of the problem of public trust in science will be condensed. The workpackage delivers “meta”-descriptions (i.e., summaries of the disciplinary achievements in a common language). These summaries reflect main steps in the project as network definition, process definition and control scenarios. This way the workpackage acts as an environment which actively steers the information flows between the different disciplinary grounded approaches and the development of a common approach. In the last phase of the project these summaries will be used to develop policy recommendations which will be disseminated among and discussed with stakeholders in the public debates as science journalists, policy makers, scientific and lay experts. This interaction will be used to shape the final recommendations.
T6.1: Glossary of tasks and problems
T6.2: Policy scenarios and recommendations |
