Wikipedia is an important instance of "Big Data," both because it shapes people's frames of refer... more Wikipedia is an important instance of "Big Data," both because it shapes people's frames of reference and because it is a window into the construction -- including via crowd-sourcing -- of new bodies of knowledge. Based on our own research as well as others' critical and ethnographic work, we take as an instance Wikipedia's evolving representation of the field of sociology and sociologists, including such gendered aspects as male and female scholars and topics associated with masculinity and femininity. Both the gender-specific dynamics surrounding what counts as "notability" on the online encyclopedia and Wikipedia's relative categorical incoherence are discussed. If "Big Data" can be said to construct its own object, it is, in this instance, a curious and lop-sided one, exemplifying pitfalls as well as promise with respect to more accurate and democratic forms of knowledge.
We use data from the June and October series of the Current Population Survey to describe trends ... more We use data from the June and October series of the Current Population Survey to describe trends in the life course patterns of women with postgraduate training, including trends in age at first birth, marriage chances, and marital homogamy, focusing on the comparison of white and ...
Publication View. 5008872. Surveys don't lie, people do? : an analysis of data quality i... more Publication View. 5008872. Surveys don't lie, people do? : an analysis of data quality in a retrospective life course study / (1993). Brueckner, Hannah. Abstract. Thesis (MA)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993.. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [114]-122). ...
Wikipedia is an important instance of "Big Data," both because it shapes people's frames of refer... more Wikipedia is an important instance of "Big Data," both because it shapes people's frames of reference and because it is a window into the construction -- including via crowd-sourcing -- of new bodies of knowledge. Based on our own research as well as others' critical and ethnographic work, we take as an instance Wikipedia's evolving representation of the field of sociology and sociologists, including such gendered aspects as male and female scholars and topics associated with masculinity and femininity. Both the gender-specific dynamics surrounding what counts as "notability" on the online encyclopedia and Wikipedia's relative categorical incoherence are discussed. If "Big Data" can be said to construct its own object, it is, in this instance, a curious and lop-sided one, exemplifying pitfalls as well as promise with respect to more accurate and democratic forms of knowledge.
We use data from the June and October series of the Current Population Survey to describe trends ... more We use data from the June and October series of the Current Population Survey to describe trends in the life course patterns of women with postgraduate training, including trends in age at first birth, marriage chances, and marital homogamy, focusing on the comparison of white and ...
Publication View. 5008872. Surveys don't lie, people do? : an analysis of data quality i... more Publication View. 5008872. Surveys don't lie, people do? : an analysis of data quality in a retrospective life course study / (1993). Brueckner, Hannah. Abstract. Thesis (MA)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993.. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [114]-122). ...
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