The Trouble With Big Data: How Datafication Displaces Cultural Practices

Jennifer Edmond; Nicola Horsley; Jörg	 Lehmann; Mike Priddy

doi:10.5040/9781350239654

The Trouble With Big Data: How Datafication Displaces Cultural Practices

Jennifer Edmond, Nicola Horsley, Jörg Lehmann, Mike Priddy

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing
Number of pages	182
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-3502-3963-0, 978-1-3502-3965-4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-3502-3962-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350239654
Publication status	Published - 27 Jan 2022

Publication series

Name	Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
Publisher	Bloomsbury Academic

Keywords

Big Data
humanities
cultural heritage
cultural heritage institutions
data and invisibility
data and language
data and power
big data aggregation
sensemaking

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Data incognita: How do data become hidden?
Priddy, M., 27 Jan 2022, The Trouble With Big Data: How Datafication Displaces Cultural Practices. London, Great Britain: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 89–104 (Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures).
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Please mind the gap: The problems of information voids in the knowledge discovery process
Priddy, M., 27 Jan 2022, The Trouble With Big Data: How Datafication Displaces Cultural Practices. London, Great Britain: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 63–87 (Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures).
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Knowledge Complexity
Priddy, M. & Horsley, N.
02/01/2017 → 07/05/2018
Project: Research

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Data incognita: How do data become hidden?

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