Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 2
Monday–Friday, March 4–8, 2019; Boston, Massachusetts
Session F69: How Physicists CommunicateInvited Undergraduate
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Sponsoring Units: FGSA FHP Chair: Rachael Mansbach, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Room: BCEC 052A |
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 11:15AM - 11:51AM |
F69.00001: Whisper Networks in Astrophysics Invited Speaker: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein I will discuss how social media (like Twitter and Facebook) and communications mediums that are social (like Slack) have transformed how physics and astronomy are done. I will specifically discuss whisper networks that circulate rumors about new scientific discoveries as well as information about chronic harassers in our field. |
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 11:51AM - 12:27PM |
F69.00002: Capture Communication of Physicists Through the Archive Invited Speaker: Michelle Baildon Archival investigation is a bedrock of historical research, and a library can be a kind of “laboratory” for historians and other humanists. Libraries currently face legal, technical, and economic challenges that threaten their stewardship function. In light of those challenges, how will archives and libraries serve future historians seeking to study physicists’ communications? Whose and which communications will be preserved, and how can we remedy the archival silences that exclude or minimize the perspectives of those who are relatively disenfranchised in the enterprise of the physical sciences? This talk will address challenges and opportunities for libraries and archives, framed by the question of whose communications will be preserved and made available. |
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 12:27PM - 1:39PM |
F69.00003: Why do scientists burn jet fuel when they could email, skype or telephone? Invited Speaker: Harry Collins This presentation is lifted from a new project on the role of face-to-face (F2F) communication in the age of the internet and other remote means (R2R). If one asks why scientists go to conferences and other meetings the answer is (at least) fivefold: to generate trust; transfer tacit knowledge; to communicate efficiently; to take advantage of serendipitous meetings; and to indicate commitment and provide energy for constructing new realities. Right across the professional world there is pressure to replace F2F with R2R on cost and environmental grounds, so we had better understand F2F. The implications are huge, for instance, F2F makes science work in contrast to the way populism and social media work while video talks won’t replace universities, nor skype the lab visit. |
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