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Big Data in the Digital Humanities. New Conversations in the Global Academic Context
- Author(s):
- Antonio Rojas Castro (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Subject(s):
- Digital humanities, Library science, Information science, Museums--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- digital humanities, Library and information science, Museum studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6434X
- Abstract:
- After analysing the meaning of the expression “Big Data”, this article highlights the cultural nature of data and defends the validity of theories, models and hypotheses for carrying out scientific research. Lastly, it discusses the dialectic between privacy and control. In a sense, this issue escapes the traditional field of the humanities, but it also deserves our attention as twenty-first-century citizens interested in the cultural practices of the present. Humanists no doubt have much to contribute to ethical and epistemological debates on the use of the data generated by citizens, recalling the “captured” and cultural nature of data, and bringing their experience to analysing particular cases bearing in mind the general context.
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- Published as:
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- Publisher:
- Acción cultural española
- Pub. Date:
- 2017
- Journal:
- AC/E Digital Culture 2017 Annual Report
- Issue:
- 4
- Page Range:
- 62 - 71
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- Attribution
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Big Data in the Digital Humanities. New Conversations in the Global Academic Context