Astrosociology and the space community: Forging collaboration for better understanding and planning:
Intro: >As the fiftieth anniversary of the dawning of the space age approaches, sociology continues to pay little attention to human behavior related to space and its exploration. While the other social and behavioral sciences, and the humanities, broach this subject more readily, the overall approach of a social-science-oriented perspective remains unorganized. (Henceforth, for the sake of brevity, the social sciences refer to all of the so-called "soft" sciences). My proposal of astrosociology possesses the potential to bring together all of these parties in a way that can produce research findings that will become easily identifiable and utilizable among these "soft" scientists as well as the "hard" scientists and engineers within the space community. When the future of the space program receives attention, many remind us of the projected shortfall of scientists and engineers. At the same time, scarcely anyone seriously considers the problem of the ongoing shortage of social scientists vis-ˆ-vis the study of space exploration. This must end if we truly desire a full understanding of issues related to human behavior related to space.< Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
