Schäuble, Michaela; Pierri, Paola (25 March 2024). Ethnographic Research in (Big) Data (Unpublished). In: Ethnography Talks. Transdisciplinary Conversations in Anthropology and Beyond. St. Gallen. 25.03.2024.
This session will explore the meaning and the role of (big) data through two ethnographic projects. Drawing on different fieldwork settings, both talks explore some common threads and reflect on the following questions, in the attempt to start moving from ethnography to theory: What functions do data perform and for whom? What is the role of data for control and for care? What value do data hold and who benefits from data? How /why should we trust data (or who can trust what data)?
Prof. Michaela Schäuble will present an outline of the research project “Big Data Lives: Anthropological Perspectives on Tech-Imaginaries and Human Transformations” she is heading at the University of Bern. In a hospital setting in Vienna, within state security systems in France, and among environmental caretakers in the Sonoran Desert, the project ethnographically follows the ambiguities and frictions of datafication and examines practices at the interface of control and care.
Prof. Paola Pierri will draw on fieldwork in community mental health in the UK to explore how and why data is used for poverty management, exploring the different ways in which data – including its collection, categorization, infrastructure, and its use for making decisions - entail the replication of existing systems of inequalities in the digital space as well as the emergence of new forms of inequalities that are digital first.
Item Type: |
Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology |
Graduate School: |
Graduate School of the Arts (GSA) Graduate School of the Humanities (GSH) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Schäuble, Michaela |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Michaela Schäuble |
Date Deposited: |
28 Mar 2024 15:07 |
Last Modified: |
28 Mar 2024 15:07 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/194721 |
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