Big Data and Society
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Expansive and extractive networks of Web3
Big Data and Society - Tập 10 Số 1 - 2023
The self-proclaimed usurper of Web 2.0, Web3 quickly became the center of
attention. Not long ago, the public discourse was saturated with projects,
promises, and peculiarities of Web3. Now the spotlight has swung around to focus
on the many faults, failures, and frauds of Web3. The cycles of technological
trends and investment bubbles seem to be accelerating in such a way as to escape
any attempt...
Web3 as ‘self-infrastructuring’: The challenge is how
Big Data and Society - Tập 10 Số 1 - 2023
The term ‘Web3’ refers to the practices of participating in digital
infrastructures through the ability to read, write and coordinate digital
assets. Web3 is hailed as an alternative to the failings of big tech, offering a
participatory mode of digital self-organizing and shared ownership of digital
infrastructure through software-encoded governance rules and participatory
practices. Yet, very few...
Big Data, new epistemologies and paradigm shifts
Big Data and Society - Tập 1 Số 1 - 2014
This article examines how the availability of Big Data, coupled with new data
analytics, challenges established epistemologies across the sciences, social
sciences and humanities, and assesses the extent to which they are engendering
paradigm shifts across multiple disciplines. In particular, it critically
explores new forms of empiricism that declare ‘the end of theory’, the creation
of data-driv...
How the machine ‘thinks’: Understanding opacity in machine learning algorithms
Big Data and Society - Tập 3 Số 1 - 2016
This article considers the issue of opacity as a problem for socially
consequential mechanisms of classification and ranking, such as spam filters,
credit card fraud detection, search engines, news trends, market segmentation
and advertising, insurance or loan qualification, and credit scoring. These
mechanisms of classification all frequently rely on computational algorithms,
and in many cases on...
The ethics of algorithms: Mapping the debate
Big Data and Society - Tập 3 Số 2 - 2016
In information societies, operations, decisions and choices previously left to
humans are increasingly delegated to algorithms, which may advise, if not
decide, about how data should be interpreted and what actions should be taken as
a result. More and more often, algorithms mediate social processes, business
transactions, governmental decisions, and how we perceive, understand, and
interact among...
What makes Big Data, Big Data? Exploring the ontological characteristics of 26 datasets
Big Data and Society - Tập 3 Số 1 - 2016
Big Data has been variously defined in the literature. In the main, definitions
suggest that Big Data possess a suite of key traits: volume, velocity and
variety (the 3Vs), but also exhaustivity, resolution, indexicality,
relationality, extensionality and scalability. However, these definitions lack
ontological clarity, with the term acting as an amorphous, catch-all label for a
wide selection of ...
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