Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schäfer, Mirko Tobias
• van Es, Karin
• Mirko Tobias Schäfer
• Karin van Es

Titel

The Datafied Society : Studying Culture through Data

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As machine-readable data comes to play an increasingly important role in everyday life, researchers find themselves with rich resources for studying society. The novel methods and tools needed to work with such data require not only new knowledge and skills, but also a new way of thinking about best research practices. This book critically reflects on the role and usefulness of big data, challenging overly optimistic expectations about what such information can reveal, introducing practices and methods for its analysis and visualisation, and raising important political and ethical questions regarding its collection, handling, and presentation.