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Sociologist | Postdoc at the RMZ @hu-rmz.bsky.social Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin @humboldtuni.bsky.social | interested in the governing of science and its global inequalities metacramer.owlstown.net (she/her)

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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ich freue mich, heute um 14:15 in der Sektionsveranstaltung der Pol. Soziologie auf dem #dgs2026 zu "Partizipativen Publikationskulturen? Offenheit und Exklusion im wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungssystem" zu sprechen & Zukünfte des Publizierens zu diskutieren! (P106) @dgsoziologie.bsky.social
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Very excited that our article on the governing of science is now published in Minerva (OA)! We’re reflecting on the politics of research evaluation (i.a. metrics) and argue for a global research approach accounting for transnational and discursive dynamics. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Governing Science through Evaluation: A Global Heuristic of Research Evaluation Regimes - Minerva
Minerva - The article presents a theoretical reflection on research evaluation regimes – state-initiatives historically installed in European countries to coordinate the distribution of...
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I am more than excited to continue this work in my current postdoc project on global publishing cultures, please reach out if you're interested in a conversation! www2.hu-berlin.de/globalpublis...
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About the Project - Global Publishing
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Many colleagues helped me to realise this project over the last year, first and foremost my interview partners in the Caribbean and my doctoral supervisor @manuelaboatca.bsky.social who provided the invaluable support without which this dissertation would not have been possbile for me to pursue.
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The first chapters are available #openaccess here, please reach out to me for a full pdf. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook/boo...
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The enlarges the post-, decolonial and southern critiques of knowledge production through an empirical study which is informed by works in the sociology of science and STS and thereby aims to further the debate on global science studies.
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Based on a study of Anglo-Caribbean social scientists' daily work practices, I inquired the ways in which colonial legacies and global inequalities are engaged with by scholars in their multiple work activities.
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Very happy to share that my monograph on the negotiation of global asymmetries of science has been recently published! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/colonial-leg...
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Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean
Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean - Negotiating Social Knowledge Production in Research and Career-Making; This book examines how Anglo-Caribbean scholars navigate globa...
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
In two hours, our guest speaker @alexcsiszar.bsky.social will present his work on E. Garfield's global travels providing insight into how standards such as ‘peer review’ were exported beyond the USA and Britain. much looking forward to this global history of science talk - come & join (link below)
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Auf diesem #dgs2025 ging es schon so viel um die Autonomie der Wissenschaft! Morgen trage ich um 09:00 in LX 1203 zur Regierung der Wissenschaft vor und kann schon spoilern, dass Evaluationen extrem politisch sind. #dgs2025 #preprint gibts auch schon (s. Thread)
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Heute Nachmittag trage ich zur Verbindung von post- & dekolonialen Kritiken und Wissenschaftsforschung vor und überlege, wie eine globale Wissenschaftssoziologie aussehen könnte. Freue mich!:) 14:15, MG 272. @wisstechdgs.bsky.social
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Freue mich sehr auf die Diskussionen und noch mehr aufs Zuhören & Wiedersehen!
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
das Argument zur Regierung der Wissenschaft aus vergleichender Perspektive gibts hier schon im pre-print zu lesen: zenodo.org/records/1653...
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Governing Science through Evaluation: A Global Heuristic of Research Evaluation Regimes
This article investigates research evaluation regimes from a global-comparative perspective by developing a critical heuristic. Starting from Michael Power’s argument that evaluations are essentially ...
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Für Freitag, 26.09, um 09:00, habe ich mit @martinreinhart.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy eine Ad-Hoc Gruppe zum 'Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Politik in Transition' organisiert und stelle zu einem gemeinsamen Artikel zur Steuerung der Wissenschaft vor. www.conftool.com/dgskongress2...
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DGS Kongress 2025 - ConfTool Pro - BrowseSessions
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Am Donnerstag, 25.09, 14:15 trage ich in der Sektionsveranstaltung der @wisstechdgs.bsky.social zu ‚Transnationalen Transitionsprozessen der globalen Wissenschaft‘ vor und bringe dafür globale Soziologien und Wissenschaftsforschung in einen Dialog. www.conftool.com/dgskongress2...
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DGS Kongress 2025 - ConfTool Pro - BrowseSessions
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Ich freue mich auf den #dgskongress2025 der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social nächste Woche! Donnerstag präsentiere ich Überlegungen zu einer globalen Wissenschaftssoziologie in der @wisstechdgs.bsky.social und am Freitag dazu, wie sich die Steuerung der Wissenschaft int. vergleichend untersuchen lässt.
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
in a similar direction, @martinreinhart.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy and I recently published a pre-print on the governing of science through research evaluation which is crucially arguing for accounting for the politics of evaluation and a global comparative approach. zenodo.org/records/1653...
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Governing Science through Evaluation: A Global Heuristic of Research Evaluation Regimes
This article investigates research evaluation regimes from a global-comparative perspective by developing a critical heuristic. Starting from Michael Power’s argument that evaluations are essentially ...
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
really important piece on how metrics can be used as instruments of repression & undermine academic freedom, intellectual diversity, and public responsibility! However, I would argue that they are also controlling in democractic settings and no see systems as a binary distinction.
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I've co-organised our bi-weekly lecture series for the upcoming winter semester together with @jelena3121.bsky.social and could not be more excited about the wonderful speakers who will present their work! :) Come and join - participation always open both in person in Berlin and via zoom!
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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Interested in platforms, data integration, and scientific infrastructure? This Wednesday at RMZ, at 11:00 AM (Berlin time), Amelia Acker will present her research on the topic. It's hybrid! Details below 👇
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This is the first argument we developed in the recently started collaborative project on global publishing cultures www.rmz.hu-berlin.de/en/research/...
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Predatory publishing practices: Paper tigers or actual threats from evaluation systems?
(09/2024 - 08/2028)
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
On my way to Helsinki to co-present with M. Reinhart on research evaluation systems from a global perspective at #RESSH: we think about who steers science through evaluation, the role of transnationality & governmentality. Excited for the discussion, preprint available zenodo.org/records/1496...
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Understanding the Governance of Science from a global Perspective: A heuristic of Research Evaluation Regimes
The article presents a heuristic distinguishing research evaluation regimes along four axes of characteristics – the constellation of actors (1), procedures (2), functions (3), and programmes and valu...
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RMZ HU @hu-rmz.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Neues aus dem Berlin Science Survey: In ihrer Mitteilung stellen unsere Kolleg:innen Ergebnisse bzgl. des Stresslevels von Wissenschaftler:innen vor: Gut die Hälfte der Befragten fühlt sich regelmäßig von der Arbeit körperlich oder emotional erschöpft. www.berlinsciencesur...
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Wissenschaftliches Personal an der Belastungsgrenze
Diese Nachricht erscheint im Newsletter der BUA im April 2025.
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RMZ HU @hu-rmz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We are happy to announce the programme of our Jour Fixe for the upcoming semester! Every other Wednesday at 11am, different scholars present their current work on science studies and we have a discussion. Registration is not necessary and you can join us via zoom or in person at the RMZ!
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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This morning's reading😍 "forcing replication based on a foreign (quantitative) notion of research quality into qualitative research communities can be seen as epistemic trespassing: infringing on local principles of proper (non-positivist and non-realist) qualitative research" osf.io/preprints/so...
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Andrea Geier / Bademeisterin der Debattenkultur @andreageier.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Die Nachrichten aus den USA sind so furchterregend, dass man sich ja einfach nur noch wegducken will. Wer es ein wenig geordnet & kompakt haben möchte: Mir wurde heute der DFG Newsletter Nordamerika empfohlen, den Tipp gebe ich gerne weiter. Kann man abonnieren.
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DFG-Büro Nordamerika: Nachrichtenüberblick vom 07. März 2025
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Kai Koddenbrock @kaikodden.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Vielversprechende Ausgabe zu Soziologie und Postkolonialität @mittelweg36.bsky.social herausgegeben u.a. von @manuelaboatca.bsky.social: www.hamburger-edition.de/zeitschrift-...
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Nach den Imperien? Soziologie und Postkolonialität
»Es geht in dieser Diskussion nicht allein darum, Kolonialismus und Imperialismus stärker ins Zentrum soziologischer Forschung zu rücken oder einige kanonische Texte durch andere zu ersetzen, sondern ...
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Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"Nicht mehr internationale Spitze" Jedes Jahr wird weltweit überprüft, wie frei Wissenschaftler arbeiten können. Jetzt ist Deutschland beim "Academic Freedom Index" aus der Spitzengruppe gefallen. Was steckt dahinter? Ein Interview. Im Tagesspiegel & im #WiardaBlog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/03/13/n...
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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I won't lie if I tell you that I am a little bit proud of having brought Cyrillic script to the homepage of today's University World News 😊 #students #serbia @uniworldnews.bsky.social
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Student-led protests: Part of a broader fight for justice
The nationwide protests led by Serbian students are rooted in local realities but resonate globally. They highlight the critical role of students and ...
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
spannender Vortrag morgen zur neuen Wissenschaftsmacht China, die innerhalb der letzten 30 Jahre in wissenschaftlichen Rankings Spitzenplätze einnahm und dessen autoritäres Wissenschaftsmodel viele landläufige Annahmen und Normen in der OECD-Welt herausfordert. Teilnahme wie immer offen - freu mich!
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RMZ HU @hu-rmz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
In this week's episode Dimity Stephen (DZHW) and @metacramer.bsky.social (HU) talk about how debates on predatory publishing lack empirical substantiation and ignore geopolitical inequalities as well as researchers’ motivations. blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks...
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#6 SCIENCE WORKS/ Jour fixe: Predatory publishing practices: Paper tigers or actual threats from evaluation systems? | Science Works#6 SCIENCE WORKS/ Jour fixe: Predatory publishing practices: Paper t...
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
the article shows how much is to be learned from Latin America where a "autonomous and resilient regional circuit favors the close relationship between the journals and the publishing institution, their insertion into public universities, and their management in public infrastructures."
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
fantastic new article by F. Beigel on the "global dispute" about "the definition of the academic editors’ place in scholarly publishing, the establishment of the institutional owners of the journals, and the limits of the role played by the publishers" direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
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The transformative relation between publishers and editors: Research quality and academic autonomy at stake
Abstract. The prevalence of scientific journals amid the expansion of digital platforms and mega-infrastructures features the persistent will of scholars to give part of their time to this endeavor, w...
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
this wednesday, 08.01, 11am! I will speak about the new project I'm working on investigating transnational& global publishing cultures, #predatorypublishing, metrics, the "pressure to publish", #governmentality and critique :) Join us in Berlin or via zoom www.rmz.hu-berlin.de/de/termine/r...
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RMZ Jour fixe/ Predatory publishing practices: Paper tigers or actual threats from evaluation systems?
Dimity Stephen (DZHW) und Meta Cramer (RMZ, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
ever wondered what predatory publishing has to do with disciplinary publishing cultures, global inequalities and moral panics? Together with D.Stephen & M.Reinhart, I will speak about our new project on Predatory Publishing on 08.01, 11am @hu-rmz.bsky.social www.rmz.hu-berlin.de/en/news-and-...
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
gern!:) der ganze Bericht ist hier einsehbar, die diesjährige Befragung von ca 2.800 Wissenschaftler:innen in Berlin und ca 2.500 an Vergleichsuniversitäten dreht sich zentral um "die Frage, was gute Rahmenbedingungen für die Wissenschaft sind". www.berlinsciencesurvey.de/de/ergebniss...
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Befragte Wissenschaftler:innen geben an, dass sie gezwungen sind "aufgrund der Fülle der Aufgaben genau bei den Teilaufgaben [Forschung & Lehre] Qualitätsabstriche zu machen, die ihnen selbst besonders wichtig sind. Das kann ziemlich frustrierend und auf Dauer auch demotivierend sein"
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
super wichtige neue empirische Daten untermauern die Forderungen nach besseren Arbeitsbedingungen in der Wissenschaft! Hohe Arbeitsbelastung führt zu Qualitätsabstrichen @ngawiss.bsky.social @nnwiss.bsky.social @amreibahr.bsky.social #IchBinHanna Bericht aus dem Berlin Science Survey.
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Glückwunsch @onurerdur.bsky.social, freue mich sehr!! hatte nämlich dieselbe Situation wie @heikedrotbohm.bsky.social auch schon öfters!:)
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
re-reading this article again, so I might as well share it: check out @acsiszar.bsky.social fantastic contribution on the historical genealogy of bibiometrics and its entanglement with international bureaucratic projects fueled by European imperial anxieties www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Provincializing Impact : From Imperial Anxiety to Algorithmic Universalism: Osiris: Vol 38
Abstract During the Cold War bibliometrics took on a privileged role in the discourse of global scientific development. This essay locates a key condition of possibility for this development in the co...
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
check out the new podcast "Science Works" by @hu-rmz.bsky.social in which guests at our Centre talk about their work in #sciencestudies. In the first episode, Thomas Wahl (Mälardalens Universitet, Sweden) speaks about "Re-imagining humanness. Popular science narratives of AI futures".
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
my team is on BlueSky! follow @hu-rmz.bsky.social for updates on talks we host, contributions by our team members and other activities of the Robert K. Merton Centre for Science Studies at Humboldt University Berlin! we are broadly interested in understanding how scientific knowledge is produced :)
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Anna-Lena Rüland @arueland.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thanks @ingaulnicane.bsky.social for featuring my blog post on local resistance to #Big #Science on the Europe for Knowledge blog 🙏 If you are interested in the science-society interface, go check it out: era.ideasoneurope.eu/2024/11/25/w....
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When does local resistance to Big Science persist and raise wide-spread attention? Lessons learned from the Thirty Meter Telescope controversy.
Anna-Lena Rüland Large science projects, also known as “Big Science”, are typically presented as a win-win for all stakeholders involved, including for the local community. Yet research has shown that...
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Yes, unfortunately. (The survey will be in German)
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
come join our team! :) my colleague Jens Ambrasat is hiring a survey researcher to work in a project on science transfer in Berlin - 4 years, great city, really nice team & good vibes :) haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) im Projekt „Transfersurvey“ mit vorauss. Vollzeit - E 13 TV-L HU (Drittmittelfinanzierung befristet für 4 Jahre)
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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Here is the starter pack for folks in science of science, meta science, STS, philosophy of science, history of science, economics of science, science policy, AI+science, and so on. Feel free to nominate and self-nominate! #SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Would love to be added! Thanks for putting this together!:)
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Nice, danke! Wäre auch gerne dabei :)
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Meta Cramer @metacramer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Time for summa cum laude smiles :) I'm delighted to have finally defended my PhD thesis: Many, many thanks to my amazing supervisor @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and the numerous colleagues & friends who supported me over the last few years!
two persons standing smiling in front of a large screen with the dissertation titel displayed.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/08/2024
I wrote a bit about the "imperial origins of big data" for the Yale University Press blog in conjunction with the release of my book; if you buy it through the press website and use code Y24SHEAR at checkout, you can get 30% off for a few more days! yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/08/28/t...
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The Imperial Origins of Big Data - Yale University Press
Asheesh Kapur Siddique— We live in a moment of massive transformation in the nature of information. In 2020, according to one report, users of the Internet created 64.2 zetabytes of... READ MORE
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