Search Results for data and society

... of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), attempted something new: to move beyond professional genealogies and traditions in order to try and critically apprehend the self-proclaimed “new” science of data, which has strong ties to what some might call “scientific entrepreneurship” and which, as part...

...Preemptive Media MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2006 Preemptive Media (Beatriz da Costa, Jamie Schulte, and Brooke Singer) Surveillance Creep! New Manifestations of Data Surveillance at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Preemptive Media (Beatriz...

... it, in a "society of the spectacle," in which "every- thing that was directly lived has moved away into representation," when and how did this begin, and were the initial test audiences for such a society enthusiastic, wary, or both?' Questions about the decline of participatory democracy in the United...

..., not only for the Hopi, but also for other societies. Two works edited by Alice Schlegel-who did field work among the Hopi -offer excellent discussions and comparative data on the prob- lems of Male Dominance and Female Autonomy and Sexual Stratifica- tion. 182 RADICAL HISTORY...

... miracle, and in particular into this latter aspect that can be challenged from a feminist perspective. Data was scarce, biased, and limited during Pinochet’s era, but traditional indicators like GDP or national accounts were insufficient to account for the environmental and human costs of growth—a problem...

... with generations of his own doctoral students. It was one of these students, Clarence Wesley Dupertuis, who carried out the bulk of the initial Irish fieldwork that Hooten would later consider relatively useless. In total, Dupertuis collected data from more than ten thousand Irish people in two extended visits...

... based on these data."3 He defines ethnohistory as "an interdisciplinary approach to the study of past cultures, traditional or tribal societies, and specific social or cultural phenomena, incorporating the best principles and methods of history and anthropology" and concludes...

... challenges revisionist scholars who argue that Ulster Presbyterians' post-1798 embrace of the Union and the Orange Order was rapid, inevitable, and natural. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2009 “Heirs of Freedom” or “Slaves to England”? Protestant Society and Unionist Hegemony...

...Niki Akhavan This book review compares Mehdi Semati's Media, Culture, and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State and Nasrin Alavi's We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs . Both works recognize the significance of media in shaping and understanding contemporary Iranian society...

... is a member of the editorial collective for the Radical History Review and a founding co-editor of the online journal Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience ( catalystjournal.org ). Jennifer Tucker is associate professor of history and science in society at Wesleyan University and a member...

... introduce them- selves with photographs. Cushman gazes at us from the back jacket, directly and frankly; Boym appears inside the book, from a snapshot of Khrushchev’s toppled monument, a clumsy shadow with a cam- era. Historians, particularly the sort that like their data hard, should beware. Both...

... that the opportunity arose to undertake a compar- ative study of Caribbean and Indian Ocean slave societies. The New York Public Library and the library at Columbia University offered rich material on slavery. Reading the works of Columbia’s historians such as Eric Foner also proved inspira- tional. It opened...

..., there is only geography, topography, climate, and vegetation; each of these has its own history.8 Language data, draped across that context, become the trace evidence of knowledge created and choices made. Material culture connects the two bodies of work. These ideas are introduced to students...

...: ?his data was compiled from a list of 10,231 individuals who were in one way or another killed by the Iranian republic's regime. ?he greatest number of "martyrs" belongs to the Mojahedin organization. l3e tableis based on characteristics of 863 members of secular left-wing organizations...

... ready to fall in love with an emotionally irresistible company environment. Many were stunned to find out that a workplace could accommodate freedom and humanity . . . qualities [that] were not readily apparent in society at large, nor were...

... academic and public historians, archivists, librarians, and directors and staff members of museums and historical societies in New York and New Jersey gathered at the Museum of the City of New York and spent an intense few hours pondering appropriate responses to the collection, preservation...

...-rich computers unfettered by national or geographic boundaries—that allows for multiple users in multiple loca- tions to communicate, organize, and access data and transcend time and space by meeting in cyberspace. The increasingly broader use...

...Joel Beinin Copyright ©1991 MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1991 THE PAST IN PRINT Class, Ethnicity, Gender, National Conflict, and the Formation of Israeli Society Joel Beinin Amir Ben-Porat...

...Peter Alegi; Amy Bass; Adrian Burgos, Jr.; Brenda Elsey; Martha Saavedra University courses on sport and society have increased exponentially over the past decade, motored by student interest and the acceptance of cultural studies in the academy. This online forum, organized and coordinated...

... not have data on land distribution or income for the region of Puno, center of the wool-producing zone, but descriptive materials also indicate a society of relatively small landholdings and Indian villages, all actively en• gaged in production for not only the local, but the foreign market...