CONTENTS
1 Cover
6 Preface: The politics of association on display by Richard Rogers
7 Introduction Controversies between technoscience and mediatized democracy Controversy mapping between Actor-Network Theory and digital methods The elephant in the room What controversy mapping is not A peek into the table of contents
8 Part One: Features of controversial landscapes 1 Why map controversies? Accepting complicity as a mapmaker Taking controversies seriously Choosing a good controversy On the risk of being overwhelmed 2 A proliferation of issues Types of issues and sources of disagreement Organized skepticism Paradigmatic shifts Priority disputes Institutional struggles Experimenter’s regress Laboratory warfare Skirmishes at the border of technoscience Contested expertise Path dependence and the social construction of technology Large technological systems Ontological politics 3 Making room for more actors Bureaucrats and policymakers Experts and lay experts Scientific campaigners and professional skeptics Scientific entrepreneurs Non-human actors The birth of Actor-Network Theory The voice of the voiceless
9 Part Two: Tools of social cartography 4 Exploring controversies as actor-networks Following actions with ethnography Sorting observations with semiotics ANT as an anti-theory Four ways of observing collective actions The truth of relation The problem of reification The problem of exclusivity 5 Exploring controversies with digital methods The quest for quali-quantitative methods Lessons from scientometrics Digital methods beyond virtual research and computational social science Digital media and the attention economy The amplification and acceleration of public debate 6 Collecting and curating digital records Follow the medium! Querying Scraping Crawling Curating 7 Visual network analysis Visual network analysis in practice Structural holes, clusters, and sub-clusters Centers and bridges Node ranking Node typology Turning relational structures into visual patterns Exploratory data analysis and visual methods The magmatic nature of relational phenomena Networks are not actor-networks
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Part Three: Politics of mapmaking
8 Representing controversies
Maps as descriptions
Maps