 | MediaCityUK, University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, M50 2HE. |
 | y.lin@salford.ac.uk |
 | 56051 |
 | http://www.smmp.salford.ac.uk/ |
I joined the University on 1st October 2009 as Lecturer in Future Media, having
previously worked at the Coordinating Hub of the ESRC National Centre for
e-Social Science (NCeSS) at the University of Manchester (2006-9), and the
Department of Information Systems at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
(2005-6) after completing my PhD in Sociology at the University of York
investigating hacker culture(s), hacking practices and the socio-technical
dynamics within and across Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities.
My areas of expertise for research and teaching are:
I am interested to hear from potential research students, collaborators,
journalists, about these areas. Information about my recent research
activities is updated at my personal webpage http://www.ylin.org. I also
keep a teaching and learning blog at http://hiyashi.wordpress.com/
Yuwei Lin's doctoral thesis is entitled "Hacking Practices and Software Development: A Social Worlds Analysis of ICT Innovation and the Role of Open Source Software".
The thesis investigates the socio-technical relationships between diverse actors involved in innovation processes of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). This research contributes to contemporary understanding of "hacker culture" that Yuwei defines as a concept articulated, interpreted, negotiated and performed by diverse actors in various forms, and also to the empirical studies on the FLOSS development. Theoretically speaking, this research also sheds new light on how innovation, emerging in a dynamic and informal setting, can be codified, verified and deployed in the formal knowledge system.
The work was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Webster, and examined externally by Prof. Ian Miles at Manchester Business School on 2 December 2004.
Member of the organising committtee, also chaired one session.
Track organiser: Video & STS: Methodologies and Methods (with Dr. Christian Greiffenhagen at the University of Manchester)
Member of the organising committee of RN24 Sociology of Science and Technology Network (SSTNET)
Member of the Programme Committee
Member of organising committee and Chair of Arjen Mulder's Plenary speech
Conference Organiser
Member of the Programme Committee
Member of the Programme Committee
Organiser of the Workshop "Research 2.0"
Member of the organising and programme committee
Member of the Programme Committee
Organiser of the Workshop "Visual Methods and Technologies"
Workshop organiser (with Rob Procter et al.)
Published in “Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services”, edited by Georg Gartner and Felix Ortag, LBS 2011, 21–23 November 2011, Vienna University of Technology, Vien... more >>.
http://www.thecomputationalturn.com/
http://www.bfm.ee/web/?lang=en&page_id=457
co-authored with M. Poschen, R. Procter, D. De Roure, C. Goble
A side project of the FEMroute project ( http://femroute.salzburgresearch.at/) that aims to integrat... more >>.
