Graphic Novels:
The Social Ontology of Digital Data & Digital Technology
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
This innovative symposium brings together leading figures from a variety of fields which address issues of digital technology and digital data. We’ve invited speakers with a range of intellectual perspectives and disciplinary backgrounds who engage with questions relating to digital data and digital technology in their work. Our suggestion is that social ontology, however this might be construed, represents a potential common ground that could cut across this still rather siloed domain of inquiry into the social dimensions of digital technology.
The symposium aims to explore this possibility by assembling a diverse range of perspectives and drawing them into a dialogue about a common question, without assuming a shared understanding of the topic at hand. Our aim is to extend this digitally via twitter, podcast and blog beyond the event itself, in order to facilitate an extended conversation that will draw more people into its remit as it circulates after the symposium itself.
To this end, we invite each speaker to address this theme (the social ontology of digital data & digital technology) in whatever way they choose. Each speaker will have 30 mins to talk and 15 mins for questions. We’ll have an accomplished audio editor on hand to record each talk as a podcast. These will be released on http://www.socialontology.org and will be circulated on social media in order to try and stimulate a continuing debate around the issues raised at the symposium. The hashtag for the day will be #socialontology.
This event is funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation
Confirmed Speakers:
Chair: Celia Lury (Warwick)
Noortje Marres (Goldsmiths) – Does Digital Sociology have a Problem?
Jochen Runde (Cambridge) – Non-materiality and the Ontology of Digital Objects
Alistair Mutch (NTU) – Organizational Implications of Digital Data
Susan Halford (Southampton) – title TBC
Nick Couldry (LSE) – title TBC
Emma Uprichard (Warwick) – title TBC
Centre for Social Ontology PhD/ECR Conference
June 23rd, University of Warwick, 10am – 4pm
Social ontology is integral to the study of society. It is impossible to inquire into the social world without some understanding, at least tacitly, concerning the entities which make up that world and their properties and powers. However social ontology remains an often confused and contentious matter within the social sciences.
The first Centre for Social Ontology PhD and ECR conference seeks to address this matter through papers exploring the role of social ontology within sociology.
The conference is open to all PhD students and Early Career Researchers with an interest in social ontology.
Schedule
9:30 to 10:00 — Welcome and coffee
10:00 to 11:30 — 3 papers
• Jonathan Beacham: Mixed Method Ontologies and Dialectical Futures
• Adam Wood: Why Architecture Needs a Social Ontology
• Giulia Lasagni: Mutual Recognition and Social Commitment
11:30 to 11:45 – Coffee
11:45 to 12:45 – 2 papers
• Janet Lord: What does it mean to be a teacher? A critical realist approach.
• Kalok Yip: IHL and IHRL – Convergence of Laws, Conflation of Ontologies
12:45 to 13:30 – LUNCH
13:30 to 15:00 — 3 papers
• Gry Cecilie Høiland: Using a critical realist approach for studying the implementation of a work inclusion policy measure at the front lines of the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Agency – methodological implications
• Michael Bauwens: What is social ontology (not)?
• Michael Edward Walsh: titlte TBC
15:00 to 15:30 – Coffee
15:30 to 16:30 – 2 papers
• Maryam Al Mohammad: Towards building a researcher methodological habitus
• Sara Melo: Exploring the ontology of patient safety
This event is funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation
