The Web Science Institute will be holding the second in a series of Distinguished Lectures on Thursday 22 January 2015, with Professor Evelyn Ruppert of Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Professor Ruppert will be giving a lecture entitled ‘Reflections on Big Data & Society’:
“Big Data & Society 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 18:00 with refreshments from 17:30 in the foyer of Building 30 (Chemistry), Highfield Campus. For more details and to RSVP, please visit our Eventbrite page.