The course will teach students to analyse complexity within an empirical case that explores a current topic or controversy within the field of science, technology, and innovation.
The course will teach students to analyse complexity within an empirical case that explores a current topic or controversy within the field of science, technology, and innovation.
We depart from some conceptual presuppositions of methodological cosmopolitanism to define a transversal method.
The course will teach students to analyse complexity within an empirical case that explores a current topic or controversy within the field of science, technology, and innovation.
In a time of alternative facts, what constitutes legitimate knowledge and expertise are major political sites of contention and struggle.
We discuss how data science as a field and a profession came into being in relation to but also as a critique of existing ones such as statistics and statisticians.
Babbage’s constants and engines exemplified a rationality which emphasised counting and measurement as essential means for legitimate knowledge production.
This working paper was written in preparation for a collaborative workshop organised for statisticians, social scientists, and app designers.
This paper reflects on the challenges of doing collaborative ethnography in a research project (ARITHMUS) that studies the enactment of populations through statistics.