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R. Stuart Geiger
computational ethnographer ethnographer of computation
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Presentations and publications about the work of maintaining free & open-source software
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Researchers receive grant to study the invisible work of maintaining open-source software
Annoucement of a new multi-institution research grant from the Sloan and Ford Foundations to study maintenance of digital infrastructure, specifically focusing on issues of invisible work, burnout, and community sustainability of open-source software.
Best Practices Team Challenges
A summary of the first BIDS Best Practices lunch discussion, where we shared the challenges of doing research in groups.
Research Software Engineers and Data Scientists: More in Common
A cross-post of a piece about defining the roles, scopes, and challenges of data scientists and research software engineers, in which we conclude we have more in common and that our differences come more from the context in which these terms and roles emerged.
So you want to start a data science institute? Achieving sustainability
A cross-post of a piece that synthesizes the experiences of many in academic data science institutes and research software engineering groups, focused on what is important in sustaining these cross-disciplinary efforts over time.
Keeping computation open to interpetation: Ethnographers, step right in, please
A cross-post of a piece written with members of ITU Copenhagen's ETHOSlab, based on a workshop we held about the role of interpretivist social science and humanistic approaches in computation.
Call for abstracts for critical data studies / human contexts and ethics track at the 2018 4S Annual Conference
We invite papers that address the organizational, social, cultural, ethical, and otherwise human impacts of data science applications in areas like science, education, consumer products, labor and workforce management, bureaucracies and administration, media platforms, or families.
New article about algorithmic systems in Wikipedia and going ‘beyond opening up the black box’
I'm excited to share a new article, "Beyond opening up the black box: Investigating the role of algorithmic systems in Wikipedian organizational culture" (open access PDF here). It is published in Big Data & Society as part of a special issue on "Algorithms in Culture," edited by Morgan Ames, Jason Oakes, Massimo Mazzotti, Marion Fourcade, and Gretchen Gano. The special issue came out of a…
Critical data studies track at the 2016 4S/EASST Annual Conference
This is an updated schedule of track 113, Critical Data Studies, at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of the Social Study of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). Please contact Stuart Geiger if you have any questions.