Animal, Body, Data
Starling Murmurations and the Dynamic of Becoming In-formation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4743811 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mickey Vallee (0000-0001-5301-2388, Athabasca University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 83-106 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Body & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1357034x21992846 |
| OpenAlex | W3160263054 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
The aim of this article is to demonstrate that data modelling is becoming a crucial, if not dominant, vector for our understanding of animal populations and is consequential for how we study the affective relations between individual bodies and the communities to which they belong. It takes up the relationship between animal, body and data, following the datafication of starling murmurations, to explore the topological relationships between nature, culture and science. The case study thus embodies a data journey, invoking the tactics claimed by social or natural scientists, who generated recent discoveries in starling murmurations, including their topological expansions and contractions. The article concludes with thoughts and suggestions for further research on animal/data entanglement, and threads the concept of databodiment throughout, as a necessary dynamic for the formation and maintenance of communities
Biology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Sociality · Sociology · Starling · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Philosophy · Psychology · Species Distribution and Climate Change · Ecology
Data-Centric Biology
Flocks, herds and schools
Dataveillance and Countervailance
The Marvelous Clouds
The surveillant assemblage
Educational landscapes and the environmental entanglement of humans and non-humans through the starling murmuration
Individuation, Relationality, Affect
Intimate Entanglements
The animal challenge to sociology
The Digital Subject
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |