Fast trade? Interdisciplinarity under time pressure

Chris­t­ian Dayé
Graz Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy

Fast trade? Inter­dis­ci­pli­nar­i­ty under time pres­sure

Abstract. This paper address­es two ques­tions. The first is: Do cross-dis­ci­pli­nary teams that exist only for rather short peri­ods of time have a chance to real­ize some form of dia­logue across dis­ci­pli­nary bound­aries? To approach this top­ic, the con­cept of trad­ing zones is applied, as it has been intro­duced by Peter Gal­i­son and devel­oped by oth­er authors. Empir­i­cal data come from par­tic­i­pant obser­va­tion dur­ing a work­shop on soni­fi­ca­tion, i.e. the audi­to­ry dis­play of data. In this con­text, a sec­ond ques­tion is addressed. While there exists a vivid dis­cus­sion on how to mea­sure out­come or per­for­mance of research projects, there has been no attempt to mea­sure the degree of inter­dis­ci­pli­nar­i­ty with­in a col­lab­o­ra­tive struc­ture. I pro­pose a method­ol­o­gy that attempts to trans­fer con­cepts found with­in qual­i­ta­tive frame­works onto a quan­ti­ta­tive research strat­e­gy. In con­clud­ing, I dis­cuss some flaws of this ap-proach and pro­pose fur­ther lines of work.

Key­words: inter­dis­ci­pli­nar­i­ty, trad­ing zones, soni­fi­ca­tion, exchange the­o­ry

DOI: 10.5840/dspl2020318

Fund­ing

This research is sup­port­ed by the Russ­ian Foun­da­tion of Basic Research, research project no. 18–011-01097 “Social The­o­ry and Pow­er – Russ­ian Pecu­liar­i­ties” (chap­ters 1–2) and research project no. 17–29-09178 “Analy­sis of Lan­guage and Inter­dis­ci­pli­nar­i­ty.” (chap­ter 3–4)

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