The summer school convened young researchers from a broad range of disciplines working in the area of Science and Technology Studies, who discussed their PhD projects. Here, Basanta Thapa talked about “Big Data in Government: Of the Big Data Myth and Its Translations in Local Governments”, linking the hype around Big Data to meta-narratives of rationality, modernism, and positivism.
The summer school’s keynote speakers – Karin Knorr Cetina (University of Chicago), Maja Horst (University of Copenhagen), and Andrew Sterling (University of Sussex) – also joined the workshop sessions where the participants tried to disentangle the interplay between political myths and societal structures.