Ethnography for a data-saturated world /edited by Hannah Knox, Dawn Nafus.
Ethnography for a data-saturated world /edited by Hannah Knox, Dawn Nafus.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press 2018.
- 1 online resource.
- Materialising the digital .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
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.
9781526127600
GBB8J5015 bnb
019091560 Uk
Ethnology.
Electronic Books.
GN303 / .E846 2018
Includes bibliographies and index.
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
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.
9781526127600
GBB8J5015 bnb
019091560 Uk
Ethnology.
Electronic Books.
GN303 / .E846 2018