ORG is a reading group at UNC Chapel Hill that meets Fridays at 10:00am in 214 Manning Hall or via Zoom.
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Next meeting
Friday, September 29, 2023
Gal, S. (2016). Scale-Making: Comparison and Perspective as Ideological Projects. In E. S. Carr & M. Lempert (Eds.), Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life (pp. 91–111). Berkeley: University of California Press. doi:10.1525/luminos.15
People
- Susan Gal (author)
- E. Summerson Carr (editor)
- Michael Lempert (editor)
Publishers
Recent meetings
Friday, September 22, 2023
Day, S., Lury, C., & Ward, H. (2023). Personalization: a new political arithmetic? Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 24(2), 167–194. doi:10.1080/1600910X.2022.2098352
People
- Sophie Day (author)
- Celia Lury (author)
- Helen Ward (author)
Friday, September 15, 2023
Seaver, N. (2022). Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
People
- Nick Seaver (author)
Publishers
Friday, September 8, 2023
Rieder, B., Gordon, G., & Sileno, G. (2022). Mapping Value(s) in AI: Methodological Directions for Examining Normativity in Complex Technical Systems. Sociologica, 16(3), 51–83. doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/15910
People
- Bernhard Rieder (author)
- Geoff Gordon (author)
- Giovanni Sileno (author)
Journals
Friday, September 1, 2023
Warner, J. (2023). The spectrum of semantic and syntactic labour. Journal of Documentation. doi:10.1108/JD-03-2023-0057
People
- Julian Warner (author)
Journals
Friday, August 25, 2023
McGuigan, L. (2023). Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
People
- Lee McGuigan (author)