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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.

Databases --- Information technology --- Internet --- Social aspects

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We have long moved on from a mere information age to the era of big data. Here, databases represent both the enormous potential for gaining knowledge of data collection and the alarming information excesses of digital culture. Furthermore, the term refers to concrete technologies and processes of gathering and accessing digital information. Media theory has to locate databases in between these very different conceptions. Marcus Burkhardt retraces the history of databases and asks how technical procedures of processing digital information determine what can be found how in databases and what knowledge can be gained through them. Wir leben längst nicht mehr nur im Informationszeitalter, sondern in der Ära von Big Data. In dieser steht die Datenbank gleichzeitig für die riesigen Erkenntnispotenziale von Informationssammlungen wie für die bedrohlichen Informationsexzesse der digitalen Medienkultur. Zudem bezeichnet der Begriff konkrete Technologien und Verfahren der Sammlung und Bereitstellung von digitalen Informationen.Zwischen diesen sehr unterschiedlichen Auffassungen gilt es, Datenbanken medientheoretisch zu verorten. Marcus Burkhardt zeichnet die Geschichte der Datenbanken nach und fragt, wie technische Verfahren der Verwaltung digitaler Informationen bedingen, was auf welche Weise in Datenbanken gefunden und durch sie gewusst werden kann.

Big data --- Information technology --- Technological innovations --- Communication --- Databases --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Social Change --- Social aspects --- Data banks --- Data bases --- Databanks --- Database systems --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Data sets, Large --- Large data sets --- Computer files --- Electronic information resources --- Sociology --- Data sets --- Big Data. --- Computer. --- Database. --- Digital Media. --- Internet. --- Media History. --- Media Studies. --- Media Theory. --- Search Engine.