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The Trouble with Big Data: How Datafication Displaces Cultural Practices

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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.

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Series Title

Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures

Call Number

005.7 Edm t

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic., 2022

Collation

x + 182 pp.; 14 x 21 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781350239623

Classification

005.7

Content Type

text

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Carrier Type

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Edition

1st ed.

Subject(s)

Database
Computer Science
Big Data

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Statement of Responsibility

Jennifer Edmond, Nicola Horsley, Jörg Lehmann & Mike Priddy

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