Big Data Is Not a Monolith

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Cassidy R. Sugimoto (Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington) Hamid R. Ekbia (Professor of Informatics, Cognitive Science, and International Studies, and Director of the Center f, Indiana University)

Big Data Is Not a Monolith

Cassidy R. Sugimoto (Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington), Hamid R. Ekbia (Professor of Informatics, Cognitive Science, and International Studies, and Director of the Center f, Indiana University), Michael Mattioli (Indiana University) , Fred H. Cate (Indiana University Law School)

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MIT Press
21 October 2016

Media studies; Impact of science & technology on society; Data mining

Series: Information Policy

"Perspectives on the varied challenges posed by big data for health, science, law, commerce, and politics.

Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identify linguistic correlations in large corpuses of texts. This book examines big data not as an undifferentiated whole but contextually, investigating the varied challenges posed by big data for health, science, law, commerce, and politics. Taken together, the chapters reveal a complex set of problems, practices, and policies. The advent of big data methodologies has challenged the theory-driven approach to scientific knowledge in favor of a data-driven one. Social media platforms and self-tracking tools change the way we see ourselves and others. The collection of data by corporations and government threatens privacy while promoting transparency. Meanwhile, politicians, policy makers, and ethicists are ill-prepared to deal with big data's ramifications. The contributors look at big data's effect on individuals as it exerts social control through monitoring, mining, and manipulation; big data and society, examining both its empowering and its constraining effects; big data and science, considering issues of data governance, provenance, reuse, and trust; and big data and organizations, discussing data responsibility, ""data harm,"" and decision making. Contributors Ryan Abbott, Cristina Alaimo, Kent R. Anderson, Mark Andrejevic, Diane E. Bailey, Mike Bailey, Mark Burdon, Fred H. Cate, Jorge L. Contreras, Simon DeDeo, Hamid R. Ekbia, Allison Goodwell, Jannis Kallinikos, Inna Kouper, M. Lynne Markus, Michael Mattioli, Paul Ohm, Scott Peppet, Beth Plale, Jason Portenoy, Julie Rennecker, Katie Shilton, Dan Sholler, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Isuru Suriarachchi, Jevin D. West"

Contributions by: Fred H. Cate (Indiana University Law School), Katie Shilton (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland)
Edited by: Cassidy R. Sugimoto (Assistant Professor Indiana University Bloomington), Hamid R. Ekbia (Professor of Informatics, Cognitive Science, and International Studies, and Director of the Center f, Indiana University), Michael Mattioli (Indiana University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9780262529488
ISBN 10: 0262529483
Series: Information Policy
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 21 October 2016
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cassidy R. Sugimoto is Associate Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington and the coeditor of Beyond Bibliometrics (MIT Press). Hamid R. Ekbia is Professor of Informatics, Cognitive Science, and International Studies, andDirector of the Center for Research on Mediated Interaction at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Artificial Dreams- The Quest for Non-Biological Intelligence anda coeditor ofBig Data Is Not a Monolith(MIT Press). Michael Mattioli is Associate Professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Diane E. Bailey is Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews for Big Data Is Not a Monolith

Well informed (up to date references), well written, an interesting read. This text is highly recommended, for all readers and practitioners with a serious interest in Big Data Analytics (BDA). Simply excellent! —British Computer Society