TY - BOOK ID - 134151432 TI - Digitale Datenbanken : eine Medientheorie im Zeitalter von Big Data PY - 2015 PB - Germany : transcript Verlag, DB - UniCat KW - Databases KW - Information technology KW - Internet KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134151432 AB - We no longer live only in the information age, but in the era of big data. In this database, the database also stands for the huge knowledge potential of information collections as well as for the threatening information excesses of digital media culture. The term also refers to specific technologies and processes for collecting and providing digital information. Between these very different views it is important to locate databases in terms of media theory. Marcus Burkhardt traces the history of the databases and asks how technical processes of managing digital information require, what can be found in databases and how they can be known. ER -