Distinguished Lecture Series in Digital Humanities: Why Big Data needs Big Theory in Social Sciences
Event details
| Date | 17.05.2016 |
| Hour | 14:00 › 15:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Dominique Boullier |
| Location | |
| Category | Miscellaneous |
With Big Data and Machine Learning, we entered a new quantification era and Social Sciences are facing major challenges such as "the end of theory" and the "solutionist" expectations.
The lecture will however tell a different story where social sciences can reinvent themselves as sciences of replications, using a selected set of algorithms and controlling the validity of the digital traces that are massively produced and made accessible by platforms.
"Society" or "Opinion" rely on their own set of quantification devices and methods.
Digital networks allow us to supplement these well-established paradigms by a third generation of social sciences, where "Replications" focus on emergence, propagation and events.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
Organizer
- Institute of Digital Humanities
Contact
- Sabine Susstrunk