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SUMMARY:On the social scientific value of transactional data - Ben Anderso
 n (University of Essex)
DTSTART:20110526T150000Z
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:In 2007 Mike Savage and Roger Burrows's paper 'The Coming Cris
 is of Empirical Sociology' responded to "the proliferation of ‘social’
  transactional data which are now routinely collected\, processed and anal
 ysed by a wide variety of private and public institutions" by looking forw
 ard to a new Sociology where "both the sample survey and the in-depth inte
 rview are increasingly dated research methods." This talk will outline som
 e of the empirical value of these 'social' transactional data through exam
 ples using unique call record and other datasets held in the Department of
  Sociology at the University of Essex and which we are starting to explore
  through collaborations with colleagues in the Departments of Computer Sci
 ence & Electronic Engineering and of Mathematical Sciences.\n\nBio: Dr Ben
  Anderson (http://cresi.essex.ac.uk/getperson?personID=1) is Deputy Direct
 or of the Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation at the 
 University of Essex and has used techniques from cognitive psychology\, an
 thropology\, sociology and ethnography during his time as an academic and 
 commercial research scientist engaged in pure and applied social research.
  Before joining the University of Essex in 2002\, he ran ‘Digital Living
 ’\, a BT programme of applied social science research based on a longitu
 dinal household panel which included quantitative surveys\, time-use diari
 es\, ethnographic studies and customer data capture (call records\, intern
 et usage logs) which lead fairly directly to a pre-occupation with radical
  data. Ben's research interests are in the co-evolution of technologies an
 d social practices with a particular focus on variations in processes of c
 o-adaptation and self-organisation across time and space. Historically thi
 s has involved substantial work in and for the telecommunications sector b
 ut his work is increasingly focusing on other 'infrastructures' including 
 energy and water.\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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