The Trouble With Big Data
How Datafication Displaces Cultural Practices
Jörg Lehmann author Jennifer Edmond author Nicola Horsley author Mike Priddy author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:27th Jan '22
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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, the biases and assumptions that drive us.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023
This open access 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, focusing 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.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Trinity College Dublin, DARIAH-EU and the European Commission.
By examining the much-hyped phenomenon of ‘big data’ through a humanist lens, the authors provide a rich account of the possibilities and limits. They focus on the importance of culture and context for understanding how data are imagined, collected, analysed and understood.
* Sally Wyatt, Professor of Digital Cultures, Maastricht University, the NetherlanISBN: 9781350239623
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 454g
192 pages