Trouble With Big Data, The: How Datafication Displaces Cultural Practices (Bloomsbury Studies In Digital Cultures)

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, 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. 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.

• | Author: Jennifer Edmond, Nicola Horsley, Jörg Lehmann, Mike Priddy
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Jul 27, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 194 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1350239666
• | ISBN-13: 9781350239661