Ethnography for a data-saturated world
Author: Hannah Knox
ISBN: 9781526127594
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year first published: 23 Oct 2018
Pages: 256
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781526127594
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year first published: 23 Oct 2018
Pages: 256
Format: Hardback
This edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world. The book brings together leading scholars in the social sciences who have been interrogating and collaborating with data scientists working in a range of different settings. The book explores how a repurposed form of ethnography might illuminate the kinds of knowledge that are being produced by data science. It also describes how collaborations between ethnographers and data scientists might lead to new forms of social analysis -- .