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How Data Need People: The Social and Epistemic Practice of a Data-Rich Science - Softcover

Hoeppe, Gotz

 
9781009686730: How Data Need People: The Social and Epistemic Practice of a Data-Rich Science

Synopsis

This book reveals how scientific data do not only represent information, but are also implicated in social actions and accountabilities.

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About the Author

Götz Hoeppe is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is the author of Conversations on the Beach: Fishermen's Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India (2007) and Why the Sky is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life (2007), which received the American Meteorological Society's Louis J. Battan Author's Award.

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