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[IS/MDIA 590] Community Data - S2019

Writing Assignment (Due 1.30) - Reading + Key Concept/Term

Reading + Key Concept/Term

Reading Notes:
1. Read the 3 assigned texts/readings (Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 from Ethnography for a Data Saturated World, and page 81 to the finish of Foucault's essay on Genealogy). For each text, compose about half a page (single space) of notes that identify the key terms, themes or metaphors that strike you as useful for translations across fields/sectors/or disciplines. As with last week, these can be bullet points. They can/should include some short key quotations from the text, and can be composed so that a non-domain reader would appreciate the author's - and your - insights.
1a. At the end of your notes, be sure to articulate Two Key Questions that extend insights or tensions that emerge from the texts. (Folks did a lovely job of using their questions as a format/space to narrate, contextualize and elaborate - for fellow academics -- key tensions or points of debate and discussion they identified in the text. Keep it up!)

Key Concept/Term
2. Spend 45 min returning back to the Chapters from our first week of readings - the Intro Chapter by Knox/Nafus and Chapter 2 on Data Scientists by Gromme, Ruppert, and Cakici. Focus on the Key Concept/Term you're assigned below:

In Intro: Data as both ‘real’ and ’virtual’ (Jingyi)
In Intro: Paraclinical practices/citizen methods/ everydayness of methods (Jane)
In Intro: Compatibility of numbers and narrative (Adrian)
In Intro: Bayesian probability/Contingency of prediction (Jorge)
From Ch2: Habitus for Data Science (Claudia)
From Ch2: Data Camp/Hackathons (Eileen)
From Ch2: Genealogies of Data Science (Yohta)
From Ch2: Material-semiotic practices (Lucy)

2a. Compose 1 page of normal notes that focus just on your Key Concept/Term, and how it is developed/discussed in its relevant chapter. Your notes should include key quotations from the text, and can be taken in bullet point format. For this part of the exercise, you don't need to worry about editing/writing for compactness or concision. (We'll take a moment in class next week to work on this together). For the key terms you identify, see if you can find a concrete example to model or illustrate it that's drawn either from our readings or from the real/virtual world. (Feel free to include links from your Scalar page to such examples, if you like)
3. Be sure to email me the link to your Scalar page with your assignment (asaychan@gmail.com) by 9A Wednesday 1/30.