Data, now bigger and better!
By: edited and with an introduction by Tom Boellstorff and Bill Maurer
Contributors: Bell, Genevieve, author; Gregg, Melissa, 1978- author; Seaver, Nick, 1985- author
Series: Paradigm -- 46; Paradigm (Chicago, Ill.) -- 46.
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780984201068
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Big data; Social aspects; Political aspects; Social sciences; Data processing; Data mining; Metadata; Information organization; Big Data; Data Mining; Society; Google
Description: "Data is too big to be left to the data analysts! Here, Prickly Paradigm brings together five researchers whose work is deeply informed by anthropology, understood as more than a basket of ethnographic methods like participant observation and interviewing. The value of anthropology lies also in its conceptual frameworks, frameworks that are comparative as well as field-based. Kinship! Gifts! Everything old is new when the anthropological archive washes over 'big data'. Bringing together anthropology's classic debates and contemporary interventions, this book counters the future-oriented hype and speculation so characteristic of discussions regarding big data. By drawing as well on long experience in industry contexts, the contributors provide analytical provocations that can help reframe what may prove to be some of the most important shifts in technology and society in the first half of the twenty-first century"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Tom Boellstorff and Bill Maurer; title: The secret life of big data  -- Genevieve Bell; title: Bastard Algebra  -- Nick Seaver; title: The gift that is not given  -- Melissa Gregg; title: Principles of descent and alliance for big data  -- Bill Maurer; title: Making big data, in theory -- Tom Boellstorff.