Event overview
Design and Social Science Seminar: Panel from the Journal Editorial Team, Big Data & Society, SAGE
Members of the Editorial Team of a new SAGE journal, Big Data & Society (BD&S) will be presenting on different aspects of Big Data Practices. BD&S, to be launched in June 2014, is an open access peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes interdisciplinary work principally in the social sciences, humanities and computing and their intersections with the arts and natural sciences about the implications of Big Data for societies.
19th February 2014, 14.00-17.00?RHB 137a (Richard Hoggart Building)
Introductions to the Journal:
Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths (UK) - Why Big Data?
Evelyn is a Data Sociologist with interests in the sociology of governance specifically in relation to how different kinds of data are constituted and mobilised to enact and manage populations.
Paolo Ciuccarelli, Politecnico di Milano and DensityDesign (IT) - The Logo as Method
Rooted in the complexity sciences, Paolo’s research and publishing activities focus on the development of data, information and knowledge visualization tools and methods to support decision making and cognitive/learning processes
Panel 1:
Matt Zook, New Mappings Collaboratory, University of Kentucky (US) - Mobile Phone Big Data and Visibility
Matt is an economic and information geographer who researches technological change and the associated spatial structures and practices of society and economy.
Irina Shklovski, Digital Media & Communication Research Group, IT University of Copenhagen (DK) - 'Creepy apps’ and conceptions of personal space
Irina’s research focuses on social networks at different levels of analysis and how people adapt and integrate an increasingly broad array of information and communication technologies into their daily lives in a variety of cultural contexts.
Panel 2:
Anatoliy Gruzd, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University (CA) - Automated Discovery and Visualization of Communication Networks from Social Media
Anatoliy is the Director of the Social Media Lab at Dalhousie. His research explores how social media and the growing availability of user-generated big data are changing the ways people communicate, collaborate and disseminate information.
Richard Rogers, Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam (NL) - Digital Methods
Richard is a Web epistemologist, an area of study where the main claim is that the Web is a knowledge culture distinct from other media. He focuses on research opportunities that would have been improbable or impossible without the Internet.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 19 Feb 2014 | 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
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