Video now online! Lauren Klein's Historical Data, Present-Day Harms: On the Uses and Limits of Data Science for the Study of Social Movements
How can data-scientific methods be used to surface the otherwise invisible forms of labor, agency, and action that are embedded in the historical record? How might these methods be adapted to the study of present-day social change? Placing a computational analysis of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement in dialogue with new work on the language and structure of online social movements, Lauren Klein, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English, Emory University, considers the uses and limits of data-scientific methods when applied to living data and in light of real-world harms.
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Check out the video, which includes captions, here!