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- Title
Morgan Freeman is dead and other big data stories.
- Authors
Wilson, Matthew W.
- Abstract
In the context of the feverish pace in which the social sciences are grappling with the implications for a turn toward ‘big data’, I suggest a different starting point: that big data are not necessarily social science data. In this somewhat speculative provocation, I argue that we should lean more on the notion that social media are phenomena and less on the notion that social media are evidence of phenomena. In doing so, I sketch four areas of potential criticality for an emerging big data studies.
- Subjects
PSEUDOSCIENCE; ELECTRONIC data processing; DATA mining; SOCIAL science research; PERSUASION (Psychology)
- Publication
Cultural Geographies, 2015, Vol 22, Issue 2, p345
- ISSN
1474-4740
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1474474014525055