Description
MyAV·¶s are everywhere. Statistics, indexes, indicators, scores govern public and private bureaucracies. The digital inscriptions of wearable and domestic devices generate data on our fitness, metabolism, leisure habits and viral exposures to empower Ìýprojects of self-actualization. We not only live with numbers, we live by them, at work and at play. For over forty years, scholars in the social sciences and humanities have studied how numbers govern us and the consequences of their dominion. Drawing from concepts and lessons of science studies and economic sociology students will learn how to ask questions of numbers. What are their politics? How do we open the black box of commensuration? How can numbers be made accountable?Ìý
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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