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T002


The Lives and Deaths of Data 
Convenors:
Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter)
Brian Rappert (University of Exeter)
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Stream:
Tracks
Location:
122
Sessions:
Thursday 1 September, -, -, -, -, Friday 2 September, -
Time zone: Europe/Madrid

Short Abstract:

This track investigates the relational constitution of data: how stages in the life of data articulate to one another and the challenges involved in storing, moving, classifying, manipulating and interpreting them.

Long Abstract:

This session explores the collectivities emerging through data collection, dissemination, assemblage and analysis. Analysing the ways in which information becomes taken as given things, the manner in which data and their varying contexts of use are co-constituted, and the means by which utility is invested and divested in them provides a platform to explore and challenge the powers attributed to "Big" and "Open" data by governments, lobby groups and institutions around the world. With its long standing attention to the conditions of knowledge production, STS scholarship is well positioned to reflect on the value(s) attributed to data under a variety of different circumstances, how such attribution changes in time, and what this indicates about the properties of the objects being identified and used as 'data' and of the communities involved in such identification and use. Questions to be addressed include: What would it mean to speak of the birth of data? How do they develop, especially when they are used for a variety of purposes by different stakeholders? Do they ever cease to be data, and how can we conceptualize situations in which data are dismissed, forgotten, erased, lost or regarded as obsolete? This session will be organised as a set of individual presentations encompassing several different aspects and areas of data use. We aim to allocate between 15 and 20 minutes per paper, and to allocate chairs who can also work as discussants, helping to bring the content of the papers together.

SESSIONS: 5/5/5/5/4

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 1 September, 2016, -