TY - BOOK
T1 - The Trouble With Big Data
T2 - How Datafication Displaces Cultural Practices
AU - Edmond, Jennifer
AU - Horsley, Nicola
AU - Lehmann, Jörg
AU - Priddy, Mike
PY - 2022/12/13
Y1 - 2022/12/13
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.5040/9781350239654
DO - 10.5040/9781350239654
M3 - Authored book
SN - 978-1-3502-3962-3
T3 - Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
BT - The Trouble With Big Data
PB - Bloomsbury Academic
ER -