Michael PiotrowskiDay 3 of #UndoneCS starts with a session on “Undone CS in the cloud.”
The first talk will be on “Agile software production in computational infrastructures,” given by Donald Jay Bertulfo.
The session continues with the talk “From research to @deuxfleurs and back again: towards digital service infrastructure as commons” by Baptiste Jonglez and Lucien Astié.
After the coffee break, it was my turn…
Now, Chung-Hong Chan on “Computer science first, social sciences second: A critical sociological account of Computational Social Science.”
Very interesting analysis of CSS as essentially a hostile takeover of the social sciences by CS.
BA would be more legitimate, but AB has the prestige—with very real impacts on academic careers.
Mario Angst@mxp I love the "(sometimes simulated)" - very crucial there. What I just noticed as someone who has definitely been doing BA, I think a key mitigating strategy is to just call it AB at times ;). Not necessarily a good thing in terms of reinforcing the takeover narratives, but it also muddies the waters a bit, so...
@mario_angst_sci Right! I agree, this can be a useful tactic at times.