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Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (295 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526127600
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethnography for a Data-Saturated WorldDDC classification:
  • 305.800285
LOC classification:
  • GN346.5 .E846 2018
Online resources:
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 numbers -- Part 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.
Summary: This edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world.
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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 numbers -- Part 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.

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