My preferred name is Hannah Cohoon, though my legal/publishing name is Johanna Cohoon. I am a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of Texas.
Broadly, I am interested in how change in science practice and culture happens. I think of science as an organization that creates and transmits knowledge; I tend to liken it to a peer production community. I am especially interested in how relatively uncoordinated actors negotiate the future of our knowledge production system.
For my dissertation I am planning to study the use and design of an open science system, examining how the involved actors coconstruct a technology that is designed to align science practice with a specific set of values. I have not yet secured my research site, but have one selected. For data, I plan to conduct interviews with system developers, users, and non-users as well as gather observational data, documents, and trace data for analysis. Most data will be interpreted using thematic analysis with structuration theory and value sensitive design as primary theoretical touchstones.
My doctoral training is heavily influenced by open science. I think this has helped me develop a good eye for study design and planning. Having a background in psychology, I am familiar with survey development and experimental design. My training at UT Austin has honed my qualitative data analysis skills—lately I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to effectively translate qualitative data through ontology.
I'm interested in engaging in 4S because I want to get a better understanding of how the same theoretical perspectives and questions can be asked of different phenomena. I expect that learning from others will inspire me to ask new questions and hopefully I can find other people interested in the same ones I have. I'm interested in 6S specifically because I am curious about how my peers are approaching their research and future careers in academia (and research in the time of COVID). I'd like to hear their concerns as they plan and execute their doctoral theses; maybe I'll learn from their experience or be able to share useful knowledge from my own.
Anonymous, 10 August 2020, "Hannah Cohoon Collaboration Bio", contributed by , STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 14 August 2020, accessed 24 November 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/hannah-cohoon-collaboration-bio
Critical Commentary
This is my collaboration bio as of August 10, 2020. I created this artifact to share with fellow participants in advance of the 6S pre-conference workshop. The full essay of collaboration bios can be found here.