*DATA CENTRES, DATA OWNERS, DATA LAKES: Infrastructures and Flow in
<br>Science & Technology Studies*
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<br>*Autumn School 10-13 October 2018, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany*
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<br>*Guest lecturer: Rob Kitchin, Maynooth Univeristy*
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<br>With the growing smartification of ever more devices in our everyday
<br>life, big data masses are generated, transmitted, analysed, stored and
<br>re-used. Devices, grids, wires, data centres and data formats are
<br>re-organized and thereby re-configure people's relations to data and
<br>each other. With the notion of data lakes new data infrastructures are
<br>developed to handle big and smart data. New data infrastructures spur
<br>new flows of data, of technologies, of people and of values, and these
<br>again shape and reshape infrastructures. Using Science & Technology
<br>Studies literature on infrastructures and infrastructuring we explore
<br>the intersections and co-emergences of data infrastructures and flows as
<br>sites and processes of concentration, negotiation, and sociomaterial
<br>(re)-building. For the autumn school we encourage participations of PhD
<br>students who do ethnographic studies of data sites from a Science &
<br>Technology Studies perspective. We apply literature on infrastructures
<br>to explore data, its relations and flows. We ask how different concerns
<br>about data are formed and negotiated? How is data enacted differently in
<br>different sites within the infrastructure? How do actors, material
<br>devices, imaginaries and practices engage in infrastructuring work?
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<br>We warmly invite doctoral students to apply for participation in this
<br>autumn school, which will combine lectures with supervised group work,
<br>writing exercises, academic speed dating and data lab methodology to
<br>engage with how to imagine and write about data, data infrastructures
<br>and data flows. The aim is to engage with participant’s own research and
<br>discuss the methodological and analytical challenges of the study of
<br>data in the social sciences. The autumn school will have a strong STS
<br>orientation and applicants taking inspiration from this tradition will
<br>be prioritized.
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<br>Please apply for participation by sending a short letter of motivation
<br>plus a 250-words abstract of the theme of your doctoral work to:
<br>cast@rub.de . Deadline for application: 19. August 2018
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<br>The autumn school is organized by Laura Kocksch & Estrid Sørensen, CAST,
<br>and funded by CAIS.
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<br>For any inquiries, don’t hesitate to contact the organizers:
<br>laura.kocksch@rub.de or
<br>estrid.sorensen@rub.de
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<br>--
<br>Prof. Dr. Estrid Sørensen
<br>Faculty of Social Science
<br>Chair of Cultural Psychology and Anthropology of Knowledge
<br>Centre for Anthropological Knowledge in Scientific and Technological Cultures - CAST
<br>Ruhr-University Bochum
<br>Universitätsstr. 150
<br>44801 Bochum
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<br>Building: FNO 02/15 and GB 04/149
<br>Tel.: +49-(0)234 32 27947
<br>Fax: +49-(0)234 32 14744
<br>Secretary: irene.scamoni-selcan@rub.de / +49 (0)234 32 - 28167
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<br>New publication: Estrid Sørensen (Ed.) (2018) Cultures of Computer game Concerns: The Child Across Law, Science, Family and Industry
<br>www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3934-6/cultures-of-computer-game-concerns
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