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HOW ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES BUILD INTERDISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE CLAIMS: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE AFFORDANCES UNDER CONFLICTING INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS

McElroy, Charles Patrick

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Management.
Climate change studies are of paramount importance to today's society at large. Due to the complexity of the phenomenon, the Environmental Science field relies often upon interdisciplinary teams to address burning research issues. This form of interdisciplinary research is often difficult due to the divergent institutional logics that the team members subscribe to (represented by the tenets of their communities of practice, dominant epistemological frameworks and dispositions toward data). This forces researchers to synthesize incommensurate forms of data and warrants into their scientific arguments. I conduct a qualitative field study to answer the following research question: how do multi-disciplinary environmental science teams enact affordances in the cyberinfrastructure to ameliorate such conflicting logics? The study contributes to the nascent literature on the new forms of evidence giving enabled by cyberinfrastructures within the scientific community. It builds upon a socio-technical framework as to account for how affordances enacted within cyberinfrastructure either ameliorate or exacerbate the conflicting institutional logics associated with evidence giving and interpretation across diverse fields. I conclude by discussing how emerging issues of new forms of logics of evidence giving and use impact the effectiveness of interdisciplinary inquiry.
Kalle Lyytinen, PhD (Committee Chair)
271 p.

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  • McElroy, C. P. (2017). HOW ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES BUILD INTERDISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE CLAIMS: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE AFFORDANCES UNDER CONFLICTING INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1493172605970172

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McElroy, Charles. HOW ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES BUILD INTERDISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE CLAIMS: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE AFFORDANCES UNDER CONFLICTING INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS. 2017. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1493172605970172.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McElroy, Charles. "HOW ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES BUILD INTERDISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE CLAIMS: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE AFFORDANCES UNDER CONFLICTING INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1493172605970172

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)