Publication: e-research: desafíos y oportunidades para las ciencias sociales
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2011
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Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
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La incorporación progresiva de internet y las tecnologías digitales en las prácticas investigadoras de los científicos sociales va acompañada de toda una serie de expectativas de revolución de la ciencia. Sin celebrar acríticamente estos discursos ni minimizarlos, y siguiendo la tradición de análisis de los estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología, argumentamos que a través de las expectativas se abren espacios para la intervención y transformación de las prácticas epistémicas de la investigación social; un proceso que denominamos e-research. Más allá de facilitar o automatizar tareas, la incorporación de estas tecnologías plantea toda una serie de problemáticas metodológicas y epistémicas. Discutimos algunas de las que surgen con la utilización de internet como una herramienta de investigación y concluimos que si bien las tecnologías digitales ofrecen la posibilidad de intervenir en la reformulación de los métodos de la investigación social, esto exige de los investigadores una práctica reflexiva que problematice permanentemente la incorporación de dichas tecnologías.
The incorporation of digital technologies and the Internet into the research practices of social scientists is accompanied by a whole range of expectations to revolution science. Without uncritically celebrating these discourses or minimizing them, and following the tradition of analysis of Science and Technology Studies (STS), we argue that these expectations open spaces for intervening and transforming the epistemic practices of social scientists, a process we have called e-research. Technology not only makes tasks easier or automates them, but raises a whole range of methodological and epistemic issues. We discuss some of the problems that arise from the use of Internet as a research tool and conclude that while digital technologies offer an opportunity to reformulate social science research methods, researchers are faced with the need of maintaining a reflexive practice that permanently problematizes the incorporation of these technologies to their epistemic practices.
The incorporation of digital technologies and the Internet into the research practices of social scientists is accompanied by a whole range of expectations to revolution science. Without uncritically celebrating these discourses or minimizing them, and following the tradition of analysis of Science and Technology Studies (STS), we argue that these expectations open spaces for intervening and transforming the epistemic practices of social scientists, a process we have called e-research. Technology not only makes tasks easier or automates them, but raises a whole range of methodological and epistemic issues. We discuss some of the problems that arise from the use of Internet as a research tool and conclude that while digital technologies offer an opportunity to reformulate social science research methods, researchers are faced with the need of maintaining a reflexive practice that permanently problematizes the incorporation of these technologies to their epistemic practices.