Tag: Digital Capitalism and Digital Social Science
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Socialising the machines
I’m saving these two CfPs for my own reference but I suspect others might find them interesting: Call for Papers Envisioning Social Robotics: Current Challenges and New Interdisciplinary Methodologies Special issue of Interaction Studies Guest Editors: Glenda Hannibal & Astrid Weiss Submission Deadline: November 1st, 2018 We find in social robotics many so-called “wicked problems” […]
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Defending the social at #undisciplining
Notes for the closing panel at Undisciplining Today’s session has a twofold purpose. It’s intended as a celebration of the paper which was awarded The Sociological Review’s prize for outstanding scholarship last year. But it’s also a continuation of the opening session, extending the discussion while introducing some new elements. It can perform both these roles […]
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CfP Symposium Dis/Connection: Conflicts, Activism and Reciprocity Online and Beyond, Sept 27-28, Uppsala University, Sweden
This looks really interesting Here comes the final reminder about the symposium organized by The Cultural Matters Group at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University on Sept. 27-28 this year. The symposium is called Dis / Connection: Conflicts, Activism and Reciprocity Online and Beyond and we look forward to receiving your papers! Deadline for submissions […]
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Digital social science as a meta-field
For the last few years, I’ve taken to talking about digital social science. I mean this partly as a short-hand to refer to a whole range of (sub)disciplines and (sub)fields which have emerged in response to the challenge of ‘the digital’: data science, computational social science, web science, internet studies, digital sociology, digital anthropology, digital geography, […]
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Xerox PARC and the challenge of building a community of inquiry
In TroubleMakers, Leslie Berlin offers a gripping account of the formation of Xerox PARC. This famous lab was responsible for a dizzying array of innovations, listed on Wikipedia as including “laser printing, Ethernet, the modern personal computer, graphical user interface (GUI) and desktop paradigm, object-oriented programming, ubiquitous computing, electronic paper, amorphous silicon (a-Si) applications, and advancing very-large-scale […]
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CfP: Workshop “We are on a mission”. Exploring the role of future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology, Berlin, 27 April 2018
Call for Abstracts Deadline: 02.03.2018 Workshop Friday, 27 April 2018 Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society Französische Straße 9, 10117 Berlin, Germany Keynote: Sally Wyatt (Maastricht University) “We are on a mission to build a more open, accessible, and fair financial future, one piece of software at a time” promises the software platform […]
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Social listening and reclaiming the future
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Emerging technologies, academic celebrities and the social organisation of disciplines
In his contribution to the Centre for Social Ontology’s workshop on human enhancement, Doug Porpora presented his initial results from an analysis of the emerging literature on human enhancement. He observed that this literature is scattered throughout many journals across disciplines, rather than featuring in the central journals of any one discipline. This left me […]
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Towards a sociological curatorial journalism
In Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, Zeynep Tufekci discusses the emergence of curatorial journalism and contrasts its function with that of traditional journalism. From pg 41: Traditional journalism tries to solve a problem of scarcity: lack of cameras at an event. Social media curatorial journalism tries to solve a […]
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Agnotology, Science and Public Engagement
One of the clear themes which emerged for me when reading Merchants of Doubt, a detailed exploration of corporate propaganda by historians of science Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, concerns the politics of public engagement. What might in other circumstances seem like anodyne issues confined to the university, who talks about science in public and the status […]
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How can the social sciences keep up with socio-technical change?
At a recent symposium I saw Ben Williamson give an excellent lecture about the rapidly developing field of educational data science and how it is reshaping educational practice. Some of the material is summarised here for those interested. It was a really broad overview of these developments and the theoretical challenges we face in trying to make […]
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Techno-Galactic Software Observatory
T H E T E C H N O – G A L A C T I C S O F T W A R E O B S E R V A T O R Y Worksession @ WTC25, Brussels + NAM-IP, Namur Call for Participation / Deadline: 23 April ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// From 7 until […]
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Public engagement, social media and university boundaries
In her wonderful Lower Ed, Tressie Cottom describes how her public profile led to her being in contact with someone who was enormously relevant to her ongoing research. From pg 103: Aaron found me through my public writing and blogging and social media and decided that speaking to me might be interesting. He emailed me […]
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Digital Methodologies
In September 2016, I organised a stream on Beyond Big & Small Data at the ISA Logic and Methodologies conference, with Christian Bokhove, Sarah Lewthwaite and Richard Wiggins. The stream was a collaboration between the International Journal for Social Research Methodology and the now defunct Digital Social Science Forum. The podcasts from the session are available […]
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The centralisation of the web and the constraints on academic speech
A great essay by Ethan Zuckerman, which raises the crucial question of infrastructural dependency within the digital university. We can overcome this partly through cultural change (e.g. the importance of a domain of one’s own and boycotting companies like academia.edu) but there are institutional factors limiting the potential reach of these strategies. To what extent is […]
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The epistemic implications of platform proliferation and platform death
From The Curse of the Monsters of Educational Technology, by Audrey Watters, loc 623: The average lifespan of a website, according to the Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle is 44 days—and again, much like the estimates about the amount of data we’re producing, there really aren’t any reliable measures here (it’s actually quite difficult to measure). That […]
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The meaning of scientific participation in an age of crowd work
I’m curious about whether those who would use Amazon Mechanical Turk as part of a research project are aware of this dynamic. From Uberworked and Underpaid, by Trebor Scholz, loc 908: One Turker, Rochelle LaPlante, also reports that some workers seek out academic surveys because they gain a sense of accomplishment from contributing to research. […]
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CfPs: ‘Big Data from the South’/’Big Data desde el sur
Submit your abstract (English or Spanish) by March 1st. [Español abajo] Deadline for abstract: March 1st Big Data from the South: From media to mediations, from datafication to data activism Organizers: Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) & Emiliano Treré (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italia). Critical scholarship has exposed how big data brings along new […]
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Beyond fast and slow scholarship
Beyond Fast and Slow Scholarship
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Three projects about the future of data
The Politics of Data (LSE Series) The Philosophy of Data Science (LSE Impact Series) Digital Futures (Discover Society) The Politics of Data (Science) (Discover Society)
Mark Carrigan 