Big Data From The Bottom Up
| Dates: | 21 October 2015 |
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| Times: | All day |
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| What is it: | Workshop |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Who is it for: | University staff |
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This workshop brings together anthropologists and sociologists to explore how ethnography is being used to engage with big data. We invite presentations from people who are doing ethnographic research on big data in order to explore the kinds of insights that ethnographic studies of users and producers of big data can provide on the ambition, challenges and threats of big data science. In addition, the workshop also invites examples of how big data is being used to extend or transform the principles and practices of ethnography. In these cases, what kinds of ‘big data’ are deemed able to answer the kinds of questions that ethnographers are interested in answering? How can big data inform ethnography and what happens to the validity and status of ethnographic data when it is set alongside other kinds of data collection and analysis?
The workshop builds on the work of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change on the “Social Life of Methods”, in order to explore these potential alignments between big data and ethnography as two overlapping practices of social research. Bringing together perspectives from those who are working at the interface of big data and ethnography the workshop aims to better understanding what each of these methods aim to do, what questions they aim to answer and what have been the outcomes of recent experiments that have aimed to bring these methods together.
Speakers include:
Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths
Dawn Nafus, Intel
Irina Shklovski, Copenhagen
Adrian Mackenzie, Lancaster
Farida Vis, Sheffield
Alison Powell, LSE
Ben Anderson, Southampton
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Darwin B05
University College London
