Ethnography for a data-saturated world / edited by Hannah Knox, Dawn Nafus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knox, Hannah, 1977- editor.

Nafus, Dawn, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Materialising the digital

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) : illustrations.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

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 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

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Ethnography for a data-saturated world.

ISBN:

9781526127600

1526127601

Publisher Number:

99987262004

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.