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- Title
Big Data, Thick Mediation, and Representational Opacity.
- Authors
Alvarado, Rafael; Humphreys, Paul
- Abstract
The article focuses on quantity of information to be processed so far exceeds human capacity that the fundamental tasks of induction are delegated from minds to machines. It mentions nontrivial sense the groundwork of analysis and synthesis and higher operations that constitute theorizing subsist in a state of dependency on processes to which the theorist lacks access. It also mentions commitment to data mining applied to massive collections of web-generated data.
- Subjects
BIG data; MACHINERY; THEORISTS; DATA mining; DATA science
- Publication
New Literary History, 2017, Vol 48, Issue 4, p729
- ISSN
0028-6087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/nlh.2017.0037