Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

The era of Big Data has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and other scholars are clamoring for access to the massive quantities of information produced by and about people, things, and their interactions. Diverse groups argue about the potential benefits and costs of analyzing genetic sequences, social media interactions, health records, phone logs, government records, and other digital traces left by people. Significant questions emerge. Will large-scale search data help us create better tools, services, and public goods? Or will it usher in a new wave of privacy incursions and invasive marketing? Will data analytics help us understand online communities and political movements? Or will it be used to track protesters and suppress speech? Will it transform how we study human communication and culture, or narrow the palette of research options and alter what ‘research’ means? Given the rise of Big Data as a socio-tech...

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Critical questions for big data

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What is Qualitative Interviewing? is an accessible and comprehensive ‘what is’ and ‘how to’ methods book. It is distinctive in emphasizing the importance of good practice in understanding and undertaking qualitative interviews within the framework of a clear philosophical position. Rosalind Edwards and Janet Holland provide clear and succinct explanations of relevant philosophies and theories of how to know about the social world, and a thorough discussion of how to go about researching it using interviews. A series of short chapters explain a range of interview types and practices. Drawing on their own and colleagues’ experiences Edwards and Holland provide real research examples as informative illustrations of qualitative interviewing in practice and the use of creative interview tools. They discuss the use of new technologies as well as tackling enduring issues around asking and listening, and power dynamics in research. Written in a clear and accessible style the book concludes with a useful annotated bibliography of key texts and journals in the field. What is Qualitative Interviewing? provides a vital resource for both new and experienced researchers across the social science disciplines.

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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

This ar ticle argues that in an age of knowing capitalism, sociologists have not adequately thought about the challenges posed to their expertise by the proliferation of `social' transactional data which are now routinely collected, processed and analysed by a wide variety of private and public institutions. Drawing on British examples, we argue that whereas over the past 40 years sociologists championed innovative methodological resources, notably the sample survey and the in-depth interviews, which reasonably allowed them to claim distinctive expertise to access the `social' in powerful ways, such claims are now much less secure. We argue that both the sample survey and the in-depth interview are increasingly dated research methods, which are unlikely to provide a robust base for the jurisdiction of empirical sociologists in coming decades. We conclude by speculating how sociology might respond to this coming crisis through taking up new interests in the `politics of method'.

The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology

This paper examines the relationship between metrics, markets and affect in the contemporary UK academy. It argues that the emergence of a particular structure of feeling amongst academics in the last few years has been closely associated with the growth and development of ‘quantified control’. It examines the functioning of a range of metrics: citations; workload models; transparent costing data; research assessments; teaching quality assessments; and commercial university league tables. It argues that these metrics, and others, although still embedded within an audit culture, increasingly function autonomously as a data assemblage able not just to mimic markets but, increasingly, to enact them. It concludes by posing some questions about the possible implications of this for the future of academic practice.

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Living with the h-index? Metric assemblages in the contemporary academy

This paper is a direct response to Wilkinson’s (1996) call for more research into housing insecurity and health. It explores the consequences of mortgage arrears for both the health of indebted home owners and their use of primary health care services. It is based on the results of a secondary analysis of the British Household Panel Survey. It demonstrates that the experience of mortgage indebtedness has an independent effect on the subjective well being of men and women, and that it increases the likelihood that men will visit their general practitioners. The paper draws upon the sociological notions of ‘ontological security’ and ‘individualisation’ to make sense of these empirical findings. It suggests that policies which have encouraged the growth of home ownership are premised on the idea of individual responsibility, a notion which underpins other spheres of contemporary welfare policies. Within this context, the consequences of mortgage indebtedness are likely to have profound psychosocial consequences for those who have direct experience of it. The spectre of mortgage debt may also contribute to the insecurity which has come to form a feature of our contemporary social and cultural life.

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Mortgage Debt, Insecure Home Ownership and Health: An Exploratory Analysis

Cultures of Technological Embodiment - Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows An Introduction Feedback and Cybernetics - David Tomas Reimaging the Body in the Age of Cybernetics The Future Looms - Sadie Plant Weaving Women and Cybernetics The Design of Virtual Reality - Michael Heim Postmodern Virtualities - Mark Poster The Embodied Computer/User - Deborah Lupton Rear-View Mirrorshades - Nigel Clark The Recursive Generation of the Cyberbody Cyberspace and the World We Live in - Kevin Robbins Descartes Goes to Hollywood - Samantha Holland Mind, Body and Gender in Contemporary Cyborg Cinema Prosthetic Memory - Alison Landsberg Total Recall and Blade Runner Meat (or How to Kill Oedipus in Cyberspace) - Nick Land Beating the Meat/Surviving the Text, or How to Get Out of This Century Alive - Vivian Sobchack Forms of Technological Embodiment - Anne Balsamo Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture Cyber(body)parts - Robert Rawdon Wilson Prosthetic Consciousness Corpses, Animals, Machines and Mannequins - Kevin McCarron The Body and Cyberpunk

Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment

Bruce Charlton, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Charlie Davison, University of Glasgow George Davey Smith, University of Bristol Norma Daykin, University of the West of England Jenny Douglas, Sandwell, Birmingham Barry Glassner, University of California, Los Angeles Judith Green, South Bank University, London Mike Hepworth, University of Aberdeen Peter Jackson, University of Teesside Michael Kelly, University of Greenwich, London Jennie Naidoo, University of the West of England Martin O'Brien, University of Surrey Richard Parish, University of Hull and Humberside College of Health Lindsay Prior, University of Ulster Nicki Thorogood, Guy's Dental School, London Laurenn Yen, City and East London Family and Community Health Services

Roger Burrows

Papers

The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology

Living with the h-index? Metric assemblages in the contemporary academy

Mortgage Debt, Insecure Home Ownership and Health: An Exploratory Analysis

Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment

The Sociology of Health Promotion: Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk