TY - BOOK ID - 14734280 TI - The Datafied Society AU - van Es, Karin AU - Van Es, Karin AU - Schäfer, Mirko Tobias PY - 2017 SN - 9048531012 9462981361 9462987173 PB - Amsterdam University Press DB - UniCat KW - Digital humanities KW - Big data KW - Research. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Data sets, Large KW - Large data sets KW - Humanities KW - Data processing KW - Information technology KW - Data sets KW - Internet research, data analysis, data visualization, social media, data journalism, society. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14734280 AB - As machine-readable data comes to play an increasingly important role in everyday life, researchers find themselves with rich resources for studying society. The novel methods and tools needed to work with such data require not only new knowledge and skills, but also a new way of thinking about best research practices. This book critically reflects on the role and usefulness of big data, challenging overly optimistic expectations about what such information can reveal, introducing practices and methods for its analysis and visualisation, and raising important political and ethical questions regarding its collection, handling, and presentation. ER -