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EDUCAUSE Live! November 28, 2006 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

What Researchers Want from IT

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Sandra BramanSandra Braman
ECAR Fellow and Professor of Communication
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Sandra Braman is a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an ECAR fellow. With support from the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, she has studied the economic and legal forces that affect the use of IT, research methods for studying IT, and the translation of research results into practice. Braman has published over 50 scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and books, including the edited collections Communication Researchers and Policy-Making; The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime; Biotechnology and Communication: The Meta-Technologies of Information; and Globalization, Communication, and Transnational Civil Society. Current work includes the book and analysis of university curricula related to IT as well as responsibilities as a Fulbright senior specialist.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Sandra Braman, and the topic will be "What Researchers Want from IT."

Researchers are interested in cyberinfrastructure developments because IT enables not only greater efficiency in their work but also entirely new modes of research. Theoretical insights, shifts in research practices and organization, and even a redefinition of research subjects and questions are among the fundamental and far-reaching consequences of these changes. Current trends are the latest phase of a long history of interactions among information and communication technologies, theory, and research methods for knowledge production. Today, IT units are increasingly understood to be active collaborators in the research process. In turn, engagement with research offers opportunities for IT resource development and improved relationships with other units on campus. This presentation will provide an overview of the relationships between IT and research, focusing in particular on what researchers need in the 21st-century technological environment.

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