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Big Data in Theory and Practice: From Empowering Data Citizens to Persona Non Data

  • Dr Mark Coté, Director of the Digital Culture and Society postgraduate programme at King’s College London
  • Thursday 28th January, 4 pm - 6 pm, W/222
  • Production Team: tbc

Dr Mark Coté 

Dr Mark Coté is director of the Digital Culture and Society postgraduate programme at King’s College London. He is an active researcher on the cultural and social impacts of the ‘big social data’ we generate in our everyday lives. His research has been externally funded by both the AHRC and the EU (Horizon 2020) in partnership with the Open Data Institute, the British Library, and Young Rewired State among others. He is currently working on an Open Humanities grant from the European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities to build a new cultural data research network with partners in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy. 

Seminar synopsis

In this lecture I will discuss new approaches to the study of big data in the arts and humanities and social sciences. I will draw upon a series of major research projects I am participating in both in the UK and Europe. What links these projects is an interdisciplinary approach, partnering with computer and data scientists, programmers and app developers, and a practical engagement with the data itself. My basic provocation will be that social and cultural theory alone are inadequate to understanding how new data ecosystems are reconfiguring social, cultural, political and economic processes. Instead I will suggest the need to work with and through the materiality of big data assemblages.

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