Knox / Unknown / Nafus Ethnography for a data-saturated world

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2760-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Materialising the Digital

This edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Knox, Hannah

Nafus, Dawn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: ethnography for a data-saturated world – Hannah Knox and Dawn Nafus
Part I: Ethnographies of data science
2 Data scientists: a new faction of the transnational field of statistics – Francisca Grommé, Evelyn Ruppert and Baki Cakici
3 Becoming a real data scientist: expertise, flexibility and lifelong learning – Ian Lowrie
4 Engineering ethnography – Kaiton Williams
Part II: Knowing data
5 ‘If everything is information’: archives and collecting on the frontiers of data-driven science – Antonia Walford
6 Baseless data? Modelling, ethnography and the challenge of the anthropocene – Hannah Knox
7 Operative ethnographies and large numbers – Adrian Mackenzie
Part III: Experiments in/of data and ethnography
8 Transversal collaboration: an ethnography in/of computational social science – Mette My Madsen, Anders Blok and Morten Axel Pedersen
9 The data walkshop and radical bottom-up data knowledge – Alison Powell
10 Working ethnographically with sensor data – Dawn Nafus
11 The other ninety per cent: thinking with data science, creating data studies – Joseph Dumit interviewed by Dawn Nafus
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hannah Knox is Lecturer in Digital Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London

Dawn Nafus is Senior Research Scientist at Intel