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Situated Bayes – Feminist and Pluriversal Perspectives on Bayesian Knowledge

Juni Schindler and Goda Klumbytė contributed equally to this paper. Visual Abstract 1 Introduction Today, versions of Bayes’ Theorem have applications in all areas of social and natural sciences. The increase in probabilistic approaches entailed by the widespread application of methods of statistical computing have only increased the uptake of this approach. A significant body …

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Community as a Vague Operator: Epistemological Questions for a Critical Heuristics of Community Detection Algorithms

1. Introduction Network science emerges as a term in the late nineteen-nineties and consists of a series of ‘content agnostic’ ways to analyse structures of various kinds as networks or graphs 1. It can be understood as a revival of the much older social network analysis through the influence of physics. 2 The kind of …

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