Citation data, Algorithms, and Academic Discrimination in the 1970s United States », Alex Csiszar au LISIS (21/11, 10h-12h)

Chères toutes, chers tous,

Nous aurons le plaisir d’accueillir au LISIS Alex Csiszar, prof. d’histoire des sciences à Harvard University le 21 novembre 2024 (salle 101, 10h-12h).

Sa présentation s’intitule « Citation data, Algorithms, and Academic Discrimination in the 1970s United States »

Abstract:
This talk will trace the entangled history of new attempts to identify and challenge sexual discrimination in academia and the rise of technologies and algorithms for measuring scientific productivity during the 1970s. New legislation passed in the United States in 1972 opened the door to a string of lawsuits against universities claiming discrimination in hiring and tenure decisions. This happened just as scholars and entrepreneurs were beginning to develop tools to use citation data to evaluate and compare not only scientific fields but individual scientists. Early optimism that these new tools might provide objective proof of discrimination were tempered by an increasing realization that citations weren’t quite the neutral and unobtrusive markers that some hoped they might be. What emerged from these entanglements by the early 1980s was not only a great deal of research in the field of scientometrics, but the beginnings of a theory of the politics of citation and calls for citational justice.

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