The Big Data Agenda : Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies /

The Big Data Agenda : Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies /

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"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 c...

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Main Author: Richterich, Annika
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : University of Westminster Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Big Data
Kritik
Technology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Computer science > Moral and ethical aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Ethical issues and debates.
Bio-ethics.
Medical bioinformatics New.
Epidemiology and medical statistics.
Ethical and social aspects of IT Mod Ethical and social aspects of IT.
Media studies.
Informatique > Aspect moral.
Technologie > Aspect moral.
Donnees volumineuses > Aspect moral.
Big data > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
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Summary:"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."
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781911534730
Access:Open Access

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