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oapen-20.500.12657-524962022-01-19T02:49:46Z The Trouble With Big Data Edmond, Jennifer Horsley, Nicola Lehmann, Jörg Priddy, Mike Literary Studies Contemporary Literature (Lit Studies) Literature, Media and Technology (Lit Studies) Digital Art and Media (Film & Media) Philosophy of Science (Philosophy) New Media and Technology (Film & Media) IT and Technology Law (Law) Sociology of Science and Technology (Sociology) History of Science, Technology and Medicine (History) Sociology of Culture, Arts and the Media (Sociology ASC2) Monograph bic Book Industry Communication::U Computing & information technology::UN Databases::UNC Data capture & analysis bic Book Industry Communication::U Computing & information technology::UD Digital lifestyle bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Trinity College Dublin, DARIAH-EU and the European Commission. This book explores the challenges society faces with big data, through the lens of culture rather than social, political or economic trends, as demonstrated in the words we use, the values that underpin our interactions, and the biases and assumptions that drive us. Focusing on areas such as data and language, data and sensemaking, data and power, data and invisibility, and big data aggregation, it demonstrates that humanities research, focussing on cultural rather than social, political or economic frames of reference for viewing technology, resists mass datafication for a reason, and that those very reasons can be instructive for the critical observation of big data research and innovation. 2022-01-18T13:08:14Z 2022-01-18T13:08:14Z 2021 book ONIX_20220118_9781350239630_28 9781350239630 9781350239623 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52496 eng Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures application/pdf application/epub+zip n/a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781350239630.pdf 9781350239647.epub Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781350239654 10.5040/9781350239654 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781350239630 9781350239623 Bloomsbury Academic 192 London open access
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Trinity College Dublin, DARIAH-EU and the European Commission. This book explores the challenges society faces with big data, through the lens of culture rather than social, political or economic trends, as demonstrated in the words we use, the values that underpin our interactions, and the biases and assumptions that drive us. Focusing on areas such as data and language, data and sensemaking, data and power, data and invisibility, and big data aggregation, it demonstrates that humanities research, focussing on cultural rather than social, political or economic frames of reference for viewing technology, resists mass datafication for a reason, and that those very reasons can be instructive for the critical observation of big data research and innovation.
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