NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Big Data

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1760
• Professor: Kenton Kroker

Document Summary

The questions will be fairly general and will encourage students to synthesize topics and readings from the multiple sections of our course. Students will not be provided with questions in advance. Technoscientific complexes - industry university and government are all institutions that interact. A consumer culture begins to develop around these new colors. People begin to classify bacteria according to the type of dyes they take (dyes were used to identify certain parts of the cell - see technoscientific complexes and dyes/the dye industry) Big data - ability to compile, store and analyze vast quantities of information: an instrument of science and tech, would this support natural history (collecting and classifying) Particle accelerators was more expensive than the manhattan project but was never built. Phenomenology - analysis of experience: there are specific behaviour patterns when technology is involved, has ability to transform power relations. Technology is not limited to an object.