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Inaugural Lecture: Living by numbers? Metrics, Algorithms and the Sociology of Everyday Life.


23 Apr 2013, 5:30pm - 6:30pm

IGLT, Whitehead Building

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Cost Free
Department Sociology
Website Find out more about Made in Goldsmiths
Contact l.hutchinson(@gold.ac.uk)

Professor Roger Burrows - Department of Sociology

The lecture will examine the sociological implications of digital data deluges in two different contexts that may be of interest to the likely audience: city life and academic labour.

A Q&A will follow with Martin Ince and Danny Dorling.

Martin Ince is principal of Martin Ince Communications. He is a freelance science writer, media adviser and media trainer. Martin founded the Times Higher/QS World University Rankings in 2004 and was their editor until 2008. http://www.martinince.eu/

Danny Dorling is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. He is also a visiting Professor at University of Canterbury NZ, in the School of Social and Community Medicine of the University of Bristol and in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2005 he started the Internet-based Worldmapper which now has about 700 world maps and spreadsheets of international statistics. http://www.dannydorling.org/

Part of the Made in Goldsmiths Series

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23 Apr 2013 5:30pm - 6:30pm
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