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Critical Studies as BIG DATA: Making the Case for Cultural Approaches to Media and Technology Studies

Speaker Mary L. Gray, Indiana University and Microsoft Research
Date Apr 10, 2012
Time 5:00 pm  
Location CSL Auditorium
Sponsor Coordinated Science Laboratory
Event type Academic
Views 3436
Drawing from my research in queer studies, especially ethnographic approaches to youth and media, I argue that critical studies provides a compelling framework as a particular kind of 'big data.' Big data researchers who aspire to build technologies for human communication must be as invested in pushing open new terrain for questions as they are in finding answers about what technologies mean to people in their everyday lives.