Dear all,
<br>
<br>The registration for the 3rd seminar of the Research Network for the
<br>Anthropology of Technology is now open.
<br>
<br>Big Data and the Power of Narrative
<br>The promise of big data is sweeping across the sciences, and the everyday
<br>practices that are the object of anthropology are increasingly leaving data
<br>traces. Scholars talk about a datafication of social life and see in the
<br>digitalization new ways of predicting behaviour and understanding sociality. A
<br>range of technologies are involved in the datafication of everyday life
<br>operating to a large extent through the internet of things, AI, the
<br>interconnected devices monitoring and regulating everything from our health to
<br>finances and reputation, to our energy use, transport, and the food chain
<br>infrastructures that sustain our lives. How might we understand the
<br>implications of this datafication of everyday life? How might we explore the
<br>emerging political and economic contours? How does datafication influence what
<br>counts as true and worth knowing? Can anthropology and adjacent fields have a
<br>special role in providing narratives about the things that escape
<br>datafication? In this symposium we invite ethnographers to explore these
<br>questions and reflect on what ethnography stood to gain from embracing the
<br>data abundance and what big data analytics could learn from ethnography.
<br>
<br>The seminar will be held on 21-22 March, 2019 at the IT University of
<br>Copenhagen. Participation is free, and coffee and lunch will be provided.
<br>Registration is required. Please follow the link on the Antech website to
<br>register:
<br>https://www.antech.aau.dk/Events/3rd+Seminar/
<br>
<br>Deadline for submission of paper abstracts is 10 January, 2019. Please send
<br>short abstracts of 100-200 words to Lea Enslev:
<br>leen@itu.dk
<br>Notification of acceptance: February 2019
<br>
<br>Keynote speakers:
<br>Joe Dumit, University of California, Davis
<br>Minna Ruckenstein, University of Helsinki
<br>Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths
<br>
<br>For more information about the seminar and program see the attached invitation
<br>and call for papers.
<br>
<br>
<br>Best wishes,
<br>Brit Winthereik, Klaus Hoeyer and Maja Hojer Bruun
<br>
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