Ethnography for a data-saturated world
This edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world. The book brings together leading scholars in the social sciences who have been interrogating and collaborating with data scientists working in a range of different settings. The book explores how a repurposed form of ethnography might illuminate the kinds of knowledge that are being produced by data science. It also describes how collaborations between ethnographers and data scientists might lead to new …
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- Full title :Ethnography for a data-saturated world / edited by Hannah Knox, Dawn Nafus.
Summary
This edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world. The book brings together leading scholars in the social sciences who have been interrogating and collaborating with data scientists working in a range of different settings. The book explores how a repurposed form of ethnography might illuminate the kinds of knowledge that are being produced by data science. It also describes how collaborations between ethnographers and data scientists might lead to new forms of social analysis.
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- Publication Date:2018.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Manchester University Press
- Place of Publication:Manchester
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781526127600, 1526127601
- oclc:on1057341731
- LC Classification:GN303
- Dewey Decimal:301
Table of Contents
Front matter; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: ethnography for a data-saturated world; Part I: Ethnographies of data science; Data scientists: a new faction of the transnational field of statistics; Becoming a real data scientist: expertise, flexibility and lifelong learning; Engineering ethnography; Part II: Knowing data; 'If everything is information': archives and collecting on the frontiers of data-driven science; Baseless data? Modelling, ethnography and the challenge of the anthropocene
Operative ethnographies and large numbersPart III: Experiments in/of data and ethnography; Transversal collaboration: an ethnography in/of computational social science; The data walkshop and radical bottom-up data knowledge; Working ethnographically with sensor data; The other ninety per cent: thinking with data science, creating data studies -- an interview with Joseph Dumit; Index
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