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Category Archives: data and dataplay
Bev Skeggs on values beyond value
In a previous post I mentioned some of the reading I was doing, I’ve now had chance to read Bev Skegg’s article ‘Values beyond value? Is anything beyond the logic of capital?‘ in detail. I found it to be genuinely … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, future of sociology, history of sociology, infrastructures, metrics, web cultures
Tagged article, Bev skeggs, BJS, Value, Values
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Understanding the human machine
The notion of the quantified self has been getting quite about of attention recently, particularly with mobile phone apps providing various ways of measuring the self. When searching around I came across this excellent short commentary article, ‘Understanding the human … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, infrastructures, metrics, mobile devices
Tagged Deborah Lupton, Human, machine, quantified self
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My current reading, writing and the ebb/flow of the academic year
Over the last three or four weeks I’ve not really posted very much on here about my research. This is largely because of the ebb and flow of the academic year. The end of the second term is always a … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, metrics, writing
Tagged academic year, reading, writing
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My review of Btihaj Ajana’s Governing Through Biometrics: The Biopolitics of Identity
My review of Btihaj Ajana’s excellent book Governing Through Biometrics: The Biopolitics of Identity has just been published on the early view section of Information, Communication & Society. [Update: the review is available open access to the first 50 people … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, infrastructures, metrics, software
Tagged biometrics, Biopolitics, book, Btihaj Ajana, governing through biometrics, review
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Developments at Big Data & Society
I posted about the new journal Big Data & Society and its blog a little while ago. The journal is now taking shape and the blog is being used to post the abstracts if forthcoming articles as well as other … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, infrastructures, metrics, objects, software
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Kittler on data and surveillance (a new translation)
At the Theory, Culture & Society open site we have just published a new translation of a piece by Friedrich Kittler. The piece was originally published in 1986 but this is the first translation into English. It focuses on questions … Continue reading
Posted in cultural theory, data and dataplay, infrastructures
Tagged data, Kittler, surveillance
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Critical Theory and the Digital by David Berry
David Berry’s new book Critical Theory and the Digital has just been published by Bloomsbury. It looks excellent. I’ve ordered a library copy and I hope to get a review copy. The book looks ideal for teaching on theories of … Continue reading
Posted in cultural theory, data and dataplay, web cultures
Tagged book, critical theory and the digital, David berry
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Predicting the future success of researchers and their research…academic moneyball
A bit of a scary article on the LSE Impact blog. It is a piece about using various metrics to predict which academics will achieve future success, and also to predict which journal articles will be most successful. The idea … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, future of sociology, infrastructures, metrics, university, visualisation
Tagged Academic moneyball, prediction, research
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A music timeline (using big data)
Flowing data have some information about the use of data to create historical music timelines. The above shows the consumption of music genre over time.
Posted in data and dataplay, music, visualisation, web cultures
Tagged big data, Music timeline
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Researching code/coding research(ers)
In this blog post for the ‘Code Acts in Education’ initiative Ben Williamson offers some reflections on how algorithms and code are shaping research practices, outcomes and dissemination. Ben provides an overview of some of the literature in this area … Continue reading