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The Big Data Agenda
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- University of Westminster Press, 2018.
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Abstract
- "This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic contemporary overview of the field of critical data studies that reflects on practices of digital data collection and analysis. The book assesses in detail one big data research area: biomedical studies, focused on epidemiological surveillance. Specific case studies explore how big data have been used in academic work. The Big Data Agenda concludes that the use of big data in research urgently needs to be considered from the vantage point of ethics and social justice. Drawing upon discourse ethics and critical data studies, Richterich argues that entanglements between big data research and technology/ internet corporations have emerged. In consequence, more opportunities for discussing and negotiating emerging research practices and their implications for societal values are needed. An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. More information about the initiative and details about KU's Open Access programme can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org."
- Subjects :
- big data
predictive analytics
digital humanities
public health
discourse ethics
biomedical sciences
critical data studies
datafication
data ethics
health research
media and communications
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFV Ethical issues and debates
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBF Medical and health informatics
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNS Epidemiology and Medical statistics
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAD Bioethics
thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics::UBJ Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects
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- Language :
- English
- ISBN :
- 978-1-911534-97-6
978-1-911534-73-0
978-1-911534-74-7
978-1-911534-75-4
1-911534-97-1
1-911534-73-4
1-911534-74-2
1-911534-75-0 - ISBNs :
- 9781911534976, 9781911534730, 9781911534747, 9781911534754, 1911534971, 1911534734, 1911534742, and 1911534750
- Database :
- OAPEN Library
- Notes :
- 649695, , OCN: 1038397837, , Knowledge Unlatched, , Knowledge Unlatched (KU), , KU Select 2017: Front list Collection
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- edsoap.20.500.12657.30155
- Document Type :
- book
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.16997/book14