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Join 'Controversy Mapping' Authors Tommaso Venturini and Anders Kristian Munk as they bring their work to contemporary digital media debates
Join the SSN and Deakin’s Critical Digital Infrastructures and Interfaces (CDII) group as our #DataCultures stream host book authors and critical data experts , Tommaso Venturini and Anders Kristin Munk via Live Stream. Tommaso and Anders will be in conversation with Deakin’s Allan Jones after their talk. Join in the conversation and Q and A via YouTube Live chat, or on Twitter with #SSNseminar #Datacultures.
Abstract
Controversy Mapping: A Field Guide is a book about the subtle craft of exploring sociotechnical debates and describing them visually and in writing. It discusses the history of controversy analysis in Science and Technology Studies, Actor-Network Theory and Digital Methods, and it provides conceptual and practical instructions on how to investigate them with tools at the crossroad of ethnography, semiotics, network analysis and digital fieldwork. In the seminar, the authors will discuss their experience with this method and consider its increasing relevance as a toolkit to tackle the latest evolutions of public debate in digital media.
Author bios
Tommaso Venturini is an associate professor at the Medialab of the University of Geneva, a researcher at the CNRS Centre for Internet & Society and a founding member of the Public Data Lab. In 2017 and 2018, he has been a researcher at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon and recipient of the “Advanced Research” fellowship of the French Institute for Computer Science and Automation. In 2016, he was a “digital methods lecturer” at the Department of Digital Humanities of King’s College London and, from 2009 to 2015, he coordinated the research activities of the médialab of Sciences Po Paris. His research is positioned at the interface between social and human sciences and digital computation and design. His investigations focus on: Digital Methods, Digital Media Studies, Controversy Mapping, Science & Technology Studies, and more particularly on the attention economy (and its acceleration in online media) and Internet subcultures (and secondary orality phenomena). More at www.tommasoventurini.it
Anders Kristian Munk is associate professor at the Techno-Anthropology Lab and scientific director of MASSHINE. He does research on controversies over new science and technology, for example in relation to artificial intelligence or green transitions. He has been particularly engaged in the development of new digital methods at the interface between data science and anthropology. He is currently interested in the establishment of a methods program for computational anthropology, particularly in light of recent developments in machine learning and generative AI, and in the methodology of digital controversy mapping. He was the director of the Techno-Anthropology Lab from 2015-2023, which he helped found. He majored in Ethnology from the University of Copenhagen and holds a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Oxford. He has previously worked as an assistant professor at the Danish Technical University and as a senior visiting research fellow at the SciencesPo médialab. He is also a co-founder of the Public Data Lab.
Discussant bio
Allan Jones is the General Manager Software Engineering for the Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A2I2) at Deakin University and has 15 years experience across defence, education, employment, transport, health, aged care, and arts and culture. Allan’s current research and work focus is around harnessing the emerging capabilities of Generative AI towards building ecosystems of intelligence that maximise the potential of human-machine collaboration in better serving the needs of our communities.
Join in the conversation and Q and A via YouTube Live chat, or on Twitter with #SSNseminar #Datacultures.
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