{"id":10771,"date":"2022-03-04T14:23:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T14:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=10771"},"modified":"2022-08-31T15:55:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:55:19","slug":"datatheorysimonlindgren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/datatheorysimonlindgren\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Conversations in Culture, Media and Society – ‘Data Theory: Interpretive Sociology and Computational Methods’ with Professor Simon Lindgren (Umea\u030a University)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contemporary Conversations in Culture, Media and Society<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Data Theory: Interpretive Sociology and Computational Methods<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Featuring <\/span>Professor Simon Lindgren<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (Umea\u030a University).<\/span><\/p>\n

The ongoing and intensifying datafication of our societies poses huge challenges as well as opportunities for social science to rethink core elements of its research enterprise. Prominently, there is a pressing need to move beyond the long-standing qualitative\/quantitative divide. This talk is an argument towards developing a critical science of data, by bringing together the interpretive theoretical and ethical sensibilities of social science with the predictive and prognostic powers of data science and computational methods. <\/span><\/p>\n

Simon Lindgren argues that the renegotiation of theories and research methods that must be made in order for them to be more relevant and useful, can be fruitfully understood through the metaphor of hacking social science: developing creative ways of exploiting existing tools in alternative and unexpected ways to solve problems.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Simon Lindgren<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is Professor of Sociology at Umea\u030a University. His research is about the relationship between digital technologies and society. Lindgren studies the transformative role of digital communication technologies (internet and social media), and the consequences of datafication, algorithms and AI, with a particular focus on politics and power relations. He uses combinations of methods from computational social science and network science, and analytical frameworks from interpretive sociology and critical theory. Lindgren\u2019s books include \u201cData Theory\u201d (2020), \u201cDigital Media and Society\u201d (2017, 2Ed 2022), and \u201cNew Noise\u201d (2013).<\/span><\/p>\n

Contemporary Conversations in Culture, Media and Society – Data Theory: Interpretive Sociology and Computational Methods<\/em> with Professor Simon Lindgren<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday 17 March 2022, 1600-1800<\/strong><\/p>\n

Held online – if you\u2019d like to come along please sign up on Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This presentation is part of the Contemporary Conversations in Culture, Media and Society<\/em><\/strong> seminars hosted by the <\/span>Centre for Culture, Media & Society<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (CCMS)<\/strong>. Based in the <\/span>Culture & Creativity Research Institute<\/strong><\/span><\/a> at Sheffield Hallam University, CCMS delivers critical insights and knowledge on a diversity of cultural, social and media practices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you are interested in hosting an external visitor, giving your own seminar about your research or would like to volunteer to hold a seminar session more geared towards staff development, please let us know at ! RIS Culture & Creativity RI Enquiries<\/a>. You can find out about future seminars in our CCRI Seminar Series on the CCRI Impact Blog pages for 2021-2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is our aim to record each and every one of our research seminars and we will make recordings available shortly afterwards on the staff intranet, in order to create an archive of our speakers and seminars.<\/p>\n

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Contemporary Conversations in Culture, Media and Society Data Theory: Interpretive Sociology and Computational Methods Featuring Professor Simon Lindgren (Umea\u030a University). The ongoing and intensifying datafication of our societies poses huge challenges as well as opportunities for social science to rethink core elements of its research enterprise. Prominently, there is a pressing need to move beyond the long-standing qualitative\/quantitative divide. 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