Web Science Institute Distinguished Lecture Event
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Event details
The Web Science Institute is delighted to announce that Professor Evelyn Ruppert, Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London and founding Editor of Big Data & Society will be giving a WSI Distinguished Lecture at 1800 on Thursday 22 January 2015.
Professor Ruppert will be giving a lecture entitled: Reflections on Big Data & Society: visualising an emerging field
"Big Data & Society: critical interdisciplinary inquiries is a recently launched SAGE journal that involves over 70 scholars from 15 countries and across the disciplines of the arts, humanities and social and computing sciences. As founding and chief editor, my talk will focus on how we designed a visualisation for the Journal that reflexively engages with how it is defining what Big Data is and its matters of concern. I’ll critically question our decision to work with a network diagram – one of the most popular visualisations in circulation – and discuss how it captures issues that working with Big Data introduce: interactivity, dynamism, recursivity and performativity. Through this discussion I will think about how our research practices are inside rather than outside of the making of what is Big Data"
The lecture will start at 6pm with refreshments from 5.30pm in the foyer of Building 30 (Chemistry)
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Speaker information
Professor Evelyn Ruppert,Goldsmiths, University of London, Evelyn Ruppert is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the joint University of Manchester and Open University Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change (CRESC) and co-convened a research theme called The Social Life of Methods. She was PI of a recently completed ESRC funded project, Socialising Big Data and is currently PI of a project funded by an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant, Peopling Europe: How data make a people (ARITHMUS). She is also founding and editor-in-chief of the SAGE journal, Big Data & Society: Critical Interdisciplinary Inquiries, launched in June 2014.