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.