Resources

Key Projects

Information Ecosystems podcast series: The team of graduate student participants in the year-long Information Ecosystems Sawyer Seminar interview our invited speakers on their current research, insights, and thoughts on needed interdisciplinary developments.

Information Ecosystems blog posts: The team of graduate student participants in the year-long Information Ecosystems Sawyer Seminar reflect on the work of our invited speakers and their discussions with us.

Additional Readings to Accompany Invited Speakers (in progress)

September 5-6: Matthew Edney, University of Southern Maine

Matthew Edney, Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843 (University of Chicago Press, 1997). https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pitt-ebooks/detail.action?docID=30...

September 19-20: Ted Underwood, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Ted Underwood, “Theorizing Research Practices We Forgot to Theorize Twenty Years Ago,” Representations 127, no. 1 (Summer 2014): 64-72.

Ted Underwood, “A Genealogy of Distant Reading,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 11, no. 2 (2017): http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/2/000317/000317.html

Ted Underwood, David Bamman, and Sabrina Lee, “The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction,” Journal of Cultural Analytics. Feb. 13, 2018. DOI: 10.22148/16.019

October 11: Matthew Jones, Columbia University

Matthew L. Jones, "How We Became Instrumentalists (Again): Data Positivism since World War II," Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Vol. 48 No. 5, November 2018; (pp. 673-684) https://hsns.ucpress.edu/content/48/5/673.abstract

October 25: Mario Khreiche, Sawyer Seminar Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh

Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1052904468

Alex Rosenblat, Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work (University of California Press, 2018) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1088531727

November 1: Richard Marciano, University of Maryland

November 15: Sabina Leonelli, University of Exeter

December 6: Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, University of Pennsylvania

January 10: Jo Guldi, Southern Methodist University

Jo Guldi, "Critical Search: A Procedure for Guided Reading in Large-Scale Textual Corpora," Journal of Cultural Analytics (December 20, 2018). https://culturalanalytics.org/2018/12/critical-search-a-procedure-for-gu...

Jo Guldi, “A History of the Participatory Map,” Public Culture 29, no. 1 81 (January 1, 2017): 79–112, https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3644409.

Jo Guldi, “Global Questions About Rent and the Longue Durée of Urban Power, 1848 to the Present,” New Global Studies 12, no. 1 (2018): 37–63, https://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2018-0012.

Jo Guldi, “Parliament’s Debates about Infrastructure: An Exercise in Using Dynamic Topic Models to Synthesize Historical Change,” Technology and Culture 60, no. 1 (March 21, 2019): 1–33. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/719944

Jo Guldi, “World Neoliberalism as Rebellion From Below?: British Squatters and the Global Interpretation of Poverty, 1946–1974,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 10, no. 1 (April 25, 2019): 29–57, https://doi.org/10.1353/hum.2019.0001.

January 24: Safiya Umoja Noble, University of California, Los Angeles

Safiya Umoja Noble, “The Future of Knowledge in the Public,” Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press, 2018): 134-52. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1113400775

February 7: Matthew Lincoln, Carnegie Mellon University

Lincoln, M. (2019). "‘What’s in a name?’ Transitioning from implicit to explicit software dev." https://matthewlincoln.net/2019/07/27/whats-in-a-name.html

February 21: Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh

Machery, E. (2019). "The Alpha War." Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1-25. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13164-019-00440-1

Benjamin, D. J., Berger, J. O., Johannesson, M., Nosek, B. A., Wagenmakers, E. J., Berk, R., ... & Cesarini, D. (2018). "Redefine statistical significance." Nature Human Behaviour, 2(1), 6. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562%20017%200189%20z

Machery, E., Stich, S., Rose, D., Alai, M., Angelucci, A., Berniūnas, R., ... & Cohnitz, D. (2017). "The Gettier intuition from South America to Asia." Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 34(3), 517-541. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40961-017-0113-y

www.geographyofphilosophy.com, blog: https://go-philosophy.com/

March 6: Colin Allen, University of Pittsburgh

March 20: Bill Rankin, Yale University

Bill Rankin, www.radicalcartography.net

Johanna Drucker, “Graphical Approaches to the Digital Humanities,” in Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds., A New Companion to Digital Humanities (Wiley, 2016), 238–250. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pitt-ebooks/detail.action?docID=40...

Bill Rankin, “Cartography and the Reality of Boundaries,” Perspecta 42 (2010): 42–45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41679217

April 16: Mar Hicks, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

Marie Hicks, “Conclusion: Reassembling the History of Computing around Gender’s Formative Influence,” in Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (MIT Press, 2017) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1004074349

April 24: Melissa Finucane, RAND Corporation

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