Event

Data Sharing – variously shaped research practices

  • Conférencier  Prof. Dr. Eva Barlösius, Professor for Macrosociology/Social Structure Analysis, Leibniz University of Hannover

  • Lieu

    Remote Webex Session

    LU

Data sharing has become a flourishing topic within the last years. One of the main drivers of this trend are the science-policy programs for enforcing open data. Many of the studies on data sharing are shaped by these programmes as they contrast existing practices of using data in research with infrastructural-driven concepts of data sharing. Prof. Dr. Eva Barlösius’s talk will focus on data sharing practices during the research process, in order to understand their social logic.

Prof. Dr. Eva Barlösius will analyze these data sharing practices with Max Weber’ terms of “social action” and “social relationship”. The empirical basis of her analysis are qualitative interviews with researchers on their handling of self-produced research data. She identified three different social forms of data sharing: (1) communal sharing, grounded on a feeling of belonging together, (2)

cooperative sharing, based on trusted and controlled social relationships, (3) and making data public, which corresponds with open social relationships.

This lecture is part of the series Science of Science in the Spotlight

Info and contact: Dr. Jennifer Dusdal

Registrations: scisci@uni.lu