http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/taxonomy/term/19 fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/139 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/139" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Quantitative methods <p>Although the word “network” is now ubiquitous and most of the time associated with IT, it has a much longer history and a deeper philosophical import. The paper reviews some of the meaning of the word in the so called “actor network theory” an especially what the new technique of digital tracing does to social theory.</p> Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:06:40 +0000 admin 139 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/143 Digital Humanities Quantitative methods <p>The great advantage of the digitalization of maps has been to rematerialize the practice of using maps. It is thus much easier than before to contrast the mimetic from the navigational use of maps made every day more visible by the developments of digital techniques. The paper aims at opening a conversation between science studies and geography by showing how the notion of territory itself may now be clearly seen as an artefact from a mimetic usage of maps.</p> Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:25:32 +0000 admin 143 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/144 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/144" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Gabriel Tarde Quantitative methods Social Theory <p>Even though Tarde is said to have had a literary view of social science, he himself was deeply involved in statistics (especially criminal statistics) and took an essentially quantitative view of social phenomena. What is so paradoxical in his view of quantification is that it relies not only on the aggregates but also on the individual element.</p> Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:53:58 +0000 admin 144 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/230 Digital Humanities Quantitative methods Sociology of Science <p>By pushing to its extreme conclusions recent accounts of formal reasoning in context, this article claims that a machine that cumulates enough context -in the highly reduced forms of co-occurences of words- is able to capture the solidity of most micro-theories; emergent properties are studied of what is a prototype for a work station allowing social science students to treat full texts in a « quali-quantitative” manner.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:45:27 +0000 admin 230 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/238 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/238" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Actor-Network-Theory Digital Humanities Quantitative methods Humanités Numériques Méthodes Quantitatives <p>“The Whole is Always Smaller Than Its Parts” —How Digital Navigation May Modify Social Theory (with Pablo Jensen, Tommaso Venturini, Sébastian Grauwin and Dominique Boullier).</p> Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:48:18 +0000 admin 238 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/261 Quantitative methods Semiotics & Literature Studies Technology <p>From examples in the history and sociology of techniques, a method is drawn to map out the double displacement of human and non humans assemblies: association and substitution; indicators are then calculated and it is then shown how a data bank could implement those mappings</p> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:42:15 +0000 admin 261 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/330 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/330" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Actor-Network-Theory Digital Humanities Quantitative methods Gabriel Tarde <p>In this paper we argue that the new availability of digital data sets allows one to revisit Gabriel Tarde’s (1843-1904) social theory that entirely dispensed with using notions such as individual or society. Our argument is that when it was impossible, cumbersome or simply slow to assemble and to navigate through the masses of information on particular items, it made sense to treat data about social connections by defining two levels: one for the element, the other for the aggregates.</p> Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:57:31 +0000 admin 330 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/628 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/628" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Digital Humanities Quantitative methods Social Theory <p>In the last few years, electronic media brought a revolution in the traceability of social phenomena. As particles in a bubble chamber, social trajectories leave digital trails that can be analyzed to gain a deeper understanding of collective life. To make sense of these traces a renewed collaboration between social and natural scientists is needed.</p> Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:24:56 +0000 admin 628 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr