Dear all,
The final UCL STS Seminar of 2014 will take place on 10 Dec. We are delighted to welcome Dr Tiago Mata to the department. His talk is titled "The Topics of Political Economy, a 70 year magazine history"
ABSTRACT: In the middle decades of the 20th century, when newsmagazines dominated North American print, Newsweek claimed the distinction of hosting the most authoritative commentary on political economy. Newsweek's columnists were recipients of numerous journalism awards, and two of them received Nobel Prizes in Economics while writing for the magazine. These opinion columns offer a unique vantage point for the study of public economic knowledge. But, how can one read 2,9 million words covering a period of 70 years? Drawing on methods from computational linguistics, I contend that we should examine the topical structure of this corpus. By tracing the birth and death of topics we are able to identify ontological epochs, where the entities of economic life, the subjects of economic science, and the relationships between the two are remade.
The Seminar will take place in Darwin B15, with tea and coffee from 4pm and the talk beginning at 4:30.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Best
Jack
Dr Jack Stilgoe
Lecturer in science and technology studies
UCL
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