mcburton

A Map of Our World

"Us" being scholars presenting at the 2013 annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. The map being a representation of the number of folks at the conference by country. The darker the red, the more people from institutions in that country will be showing up in lovely San Diego in October (presumably).

The United States of America has a strong showing, Antartica does not.

The data for this visualization was collected by:

scraping the conference website
obtaining location instutition by querying the Google Maps API with the self-reported instition information

Some blather on Trust & Method

Link to this post on my blog.

So this turned into a some kinda bloggy post thing. I can't vouch for any the ideas in here because I'm hopped up on caffeine and ibuprofen.

Garfinkel's classic "trust" paper which discusses how sociologists and practically engage trust as something observable and reportable. It is fundamentally a discussion about method, and how formal analytic/theory, cannot make render visible issues of trust. I think this speaks directly to Alan's point that humanities have no methods for engaging trust: [Garfinkel, H. (1963), 'A Conception of, and Experiments with 'Trust' as a Condition of Stable Concerted Actions', in Harvey, O. J. (ed), Motivation and Social Interaction, New York: Ronald Press, 187-238.](http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=c6Quh3jbt8YC&oi=fnd&pg=PA379&dq=garfinkel+trust&ots=HoNZhYSWX8&sig=degJPylllzk_I4R00YPlpUJPu-c#v=onepage&q

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	Stacy: It's a GIT hub.
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	What am I gonna do... with a GIT hub?

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	human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories
	into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things
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