Seminar 3
color:black">Symposium - The Potentials and Perils of ‘Smart’ Technologies & ‘Big Data Analytics’
Date: March 3 & 4, 2014
Time: 1:45pm - 6pm, Monday March 3
9.30am – 7.15pm, Tuesday March 4
Venue: The Allan Barton Forum, Level 2, CBE Building 26C, ANU
Program: To Be Confirmed (please keep checking here http://sociology.cass.anu.edu.au/events)
color:black">Registration: Attendance is free but please contact Dr Gavin Smith - gavin.smith@anu.edu.au - should you wish to attend.
‘Smart Sensing’ and ‘Big Data Analytics’ are in vogue as prevailing strategies of governance in a multitude of organisational spheres. But what exactly do they mean and imply? How can they be used to revolutionize the ways we conduct research and execute governance? What are their potentials and perils? How, for instance, might better understandings of the social body emerge through computational analytics? How might this improve welfare delivery and social justice? How, in contrast, might privacy rights be compromised by economy? How, in other words, are these techniques being presently utilized and how might they be reconfigured in years to come?
This School of Sociology symposium aims to reflect critically on 'Smart Sensing' and 'Big Data Analytics' from a multidisciplinary perspective. It will probe the social, political, economical, technical, cultural, legal, moral and policy repercussions of these processes by exploring empirically and conceptually current applications in several intersecting substantive fields.