| Description |
108 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm |
| Series |
Paradigm ; 46
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| Contents |
Introduction / Tom Boellstorff and Bill Maurer -- The secret life of big data / Genevieve Bell -- Bastard Algebra / Nick Seaver -- The gift that is not given / Melissa Gregg -- Principles of descent and alliance for big data / Bill Maurer -- r Making big data, in theory / Tom Boellstorff |
| Summary |
"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 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 |
| Subject |
Data mining -- Data processing
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Electronic data processing -- Sociological aspects
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Technology -- Anthropological aspects
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Big data -- Social aspects
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Internet -- Social aspects
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects
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Social change
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Big data
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| Author |
Boellstorff, Tom, 1969-, editor, writer of supplementary textual content
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Maurer, Bill, 1968-, editor, writer of supplementary textual content
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| LC no. |
2014949663 |
| ISBN |
0984201068 |
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9780984201068 |
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