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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Knox, Hannah, 1977- (Editor ), Nafus, Dawn (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Colección:Materialising the digital.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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