Counting Things and People: The Practices and Politics of Counting

By Aryn Martin, M. Lynch. 2009

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

1. Gina Neff
2. Anissa Tanweer
3. Brittany Fiore-Gartland
4. Laura Osburn
5. Cecilia R. Aragon
6. Ben Green

Citations in the corpus

• Critique and Contribute: A Practice-Based Framework for Improving Critical Data Studies and Data Science (2017, background): “22 These processes are not restricted to so-called social data, or data generated from the traces of behaviors and activities of people.”
• Impediment to insight to innovation: understanding data assemblages through the breakdown–repair process (2016, background): “Implicit in scienti fi c data sets are processes of counting that can be understood as ‘ epistemic achievements that involve categorical judgments ’ (Martin & Lynch, 2009, p. 246).”