Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable "dataveillance," that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture.
Lisa Gitelman is Professor of English and Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the coeditor of
New Media, 1710–1915 (2003) and author of
Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture (2006), both published by the MIT Press.
Markus Krajewski is Associate Professor of Media History at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. He is a developer of the bibliographic software Synapsen: A Hypertextual Card Index (www.verzetteln.de/synapsen)
Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor and Director of the Evoke Lab at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor (with Susan Leigh Star) of
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences and the author of
Memory Practices in the Sciences, both published by the MIT Press.