I wrote a bit about the "imperial origins of big data" for the Yale University Press blog in conjunction with the release of my book; if you buy it through the press website and use code Y24SHEAR at checkout, you can get 30% off for a few more days! yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/08/28/t...

The Imperial Origins of Big Data - Yale University Press

Asheesh Kapur Siddique— We live in a moment of massive transformation in the nature of information. In 2020, according to one report, users of the Internet created 64.2 zetabytes of... READ MORE

Yippie! Ich habe ein Kapitel zum lyrischen Theoretisieren bei T.v. Trotha beigetragen und gefragt, wie das mit seinem Fokus auf koloniale Herrschaft zusammenhängt. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...@fanicker.bsky.social@armbruster.bsky.social !!

"Feminist Metascience, Feminist Open Science? Pain Points and Possibilities" CfP for a special issue of Gender & Society

since I am starting a Postdoc position soon and it's conference season, I’ve got myself a tiny little website :) metacramer.owlstown.net I will post more about the job when the project starts in September: it’s in global science studies, and I am really looking forward!

Meta Cramer

Hi, I am Meta, an interdisciplinary trained sociologist interested in the sociology of (social) sciences and social theory from a critical global perspective...

Congratulations on getting the grant for such a brilliant project! Looking forward to seeing you around at the RMZ soon 😊

Good Sociology and the Future Organization of Social Research: @chdaye.bsky.social@dromishai.bsky.socialwww.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

"For many postcolonial nations, it was not enough to be included in scientific organizations: the barriers to participating in and benefiting from scientific research have remained entrenched..." Deborah Coen on Lorraine Daston, asking some great q's.

Who Gets to Set the Research Agenda for the Planet? On Lorraine Daston’s “Rivals”

Deborah Coen pushes back against one part of Lorraine Daston’s “Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate” by arguing that what constitutes “success” is a matter of who is part of the scie...

Berlin People: this looks so great, I’m having severe FOMO already given the fantastic programme on theory in the sciences :)

JHjulianhamann.bsky.socialOct 5, 2023 7:05am

Co-organizing this symposium on the role of theory in the sciences today and tomorrow. Particularly curious about interdisciplinary perspectives! Today is the first session on media of theory, featuring a talk by @jelena3121.bsky.social & colleagues and a panel on theorizing through podcasts.