A reminder about upcoming Data Practices seminars...
Machines of the Code-Sharing Commons, a mid-way report on a slightly large-scale analysis of software repositories
12th March 2014, 16.00-18.00
RHB 143 (Richard Hoggart Building)
with Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths) & Richard Mills (Lancaster)
The Metacommunities of Code project is an attempt to analyse code-sharing practices in free and open source software repositories, with a particular focus on GitHub. This presentation will discuss: the emergence of repositories as a developing form characteristic of contemporary forms of work; the electronic archive as a space of production; the use of statistical approaches within software studies; the material difficulties of working with and extracting highly mobile, commercially sensitive datasets; and some notes towards an analysis of the nature of code-sharing.
Matthew Fuller works at the Digital Culture Unit at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths. His most recent books are Evil Media (with Andrew Goffey) and Elephant and Castle and he is an editor of Computational Culture, a journal of software studies.
Richard Mills is a Researcher with a background in statistics based at Lancaster University. His PhD thesis was an analysis of Reddit.
Metacommunities of Code is a collaboration with Andrew Goffey, Adrian Mackenzie and Stuart Sharples.
Mapping Participation
19th March 2014, 16.00-18.00
RHB 137 (Richard Hoggart Building)
with Chris Kelty (UCLA)
How can one map the empirical transformations of a concept? The "Birds of the Internet" project explores internet-mediated participation by looking across a large number of cases evaluated for their "participatoriness." Participation is clearly not an either/or proposition, but a concept and a phenomena with different signatures. However, we have no clear names for the different styles of participation that have emerged in the last decade, nor any clear understanding of how they relate to the large number of other "heteronyms" of participation in the past. In the talk, I will offer a proposal for differentiating these signatures of participation--volatile, stable and extractive--and some thoughts on the use of clustering and case-study methods to analyse the circulation of concepts and transformation in use.
Christopher Kelty works at UCLA, is the author of /Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software/, co-edits the scholarly magazine Limn, and does research on intellectual property, piracy, robots and evolution, freedom, responsibility and other pathologies of software and computing.
Both talks are part of the Design and Social Science Seminar Series on Data Practices, which explores the burgeoning analytic interest and methodological preoccupation with data and the shifting terrain of data practices across design and social science. Incorporating lectures, workshops and demonstrations, the seminar series brings together a resonant range of events on data practices that provoke questions about the formation and force of data, the claims made for and through data, and the altered practices and politics of data.
Organised by Alex Wilkie, Jennifer Gabrys, Evelyn Ruppert & Noortje Marres,
Supported by the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, and the Departments of Design and Sociology.
For an overview of previous events in the series, see http://www.gold.ac.uk/csisp/events/
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