Data : Now Bigger and Better!

Genevieve Bell

ISBN 10: 0984201068 / ISBN 13: 9780984201068

Verlag: Prickly Paradigm Press Apr 2015, 2015

Beschreibung

Neuware - '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 participants 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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780984201068

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Data : Now Bigger and Better!
• Verlag: Prickly Paradigm Press Apr 2015
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0984201068
• ISBN-13: 9780984201068
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

Data is too big to be left to the data analysts. Data: Now Bigger and Better! brings together researchers whose work is deeply informed by the conceptual frameworks of anthropology-frameworks that are comparative as well as field-based. From kinship to gifts, everything old becomes rich with new insight when the anthropological archive washes over "big data." Bringing together anthropology's classic debates and contemporary interventions, the book counters the future-oriented speculation so characteristic of discussions regarding big data. Drawing on long-standing experience in industry contexts, the contributors also provide analytical provocations that can help reframe some of the most important shifts in technology and society in the first half of the twenty-first century.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tom Boellstorff is professor of anthropology and Bill Maurer is dean of social sciences and professor of anthropology and law, both at the University of California, Irvine.