mapping a controversy of our time: the anthropocene
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Mapping a controversy of our time:
The AnthropoceneSimone Belli - School of Innovation, Yachay Tech
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Opening Pandora’s box
Why controversies?
The word “controversy” refers to every bit of science and technology which is not yet stabilized. (Bruno Latour, 1987)
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Opening Pandora’s box
• Where researchers are positioned respect to a controversy?
Not just 2 positions, but multiples and complex positions!
Crossing controversies (political, socio-technical, nature, etc.)
Just observe!!!
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Opening Pandora’s box Just observe!!!
(Latour, 2014)1. you shall not restrain your observation to any single theory or methodology;
2. you shall observe from as many viewpoints as possible;
3. you shall listen to actors’ voices more than to your own presumptions.
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A cartography
When controversies flare up the literature becomes technical!
“There are no definitions to learn; no premises to honor; no hypothesis to demonstrate; no procedure to follow; no correlations to establish. Researchers are not even asked to explain what they study, but only to observe a controversy and describe what they see.”
(Venturini, 2010:3)
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An example of cartography (Latour, 1994)
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Mapping a Scientific Controversy in YT
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a question for meditation
geological era perspective
an ideaa shock about 2 temporalities
a narcissistic mood
a symptom of Pachamamanot a scientific term
not validated by geologists
not a real geological unit
a scientific possibility
a media event
“set the scene”
…
Where are you positioned?
Who is the villain and who is the hero in the piece?
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Drawing a Research Landscape
1. Glossary
2. Documentation repository
3. Analysis of Scientific Literature
“Anthropocene”
ScopusWeb of Science
Bibliometrics mappingNetworks
Clusters grouping
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SCOPUS WEB OF SCIENCE
RESULTS 1037 documents
785 documents
Documents by year
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Anthropocene 47Holocene 27Geological Society Special Publication 16Quaternary Science Reviews 15Proceedings of the NAS of the USA 15Philosophical Transactions of the RS 12Nature 12Science 11
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Documents by author
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Documents by affiliation
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Documents by country
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But where is the controversy?!?
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Working with networks•Network and density of bibliographic coupling (van Eck, Walkman, 2009)
•Network of all publications•Network of the most cited authors•Network of the terms occurring in the publication
•Co-words analysis (Callon et al., 1986)•Clusters grouping in co-occurrence of terms analysis and density view (Guerrero et al., 2015)
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Social Science
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Earth and Planetary Science
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Density Visualisation
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Density Visualisation
Density of the most cited and co-cited works
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Citation Network of publications1861
2016
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Network and density of co-authors
But we have just relations of authors and discipline. And the content?!?
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Creating maps based on a text corpus (Callon, Law,
Rip, 1986)
• Title and Abstract
• Minimum number of occurrences of a term: 10
• Verify selected terms
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Just look at controversy and tell what you see!
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Time to open the debate
• Controversies are interested scientific landscapes
• Cartographies and digital tools help us to understand these
• Definitely A. is a huge contemporary controversy