Data Love : the Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies.
Intelligence services, government administrations, businesses, and a growing majority of the population are hooked on the idea that big data can reveal patterns and correlations in everyday life. Because big data renders quantifiable what we think of as social, it helps propel the project of moderni...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via ProQuest) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
La Vergne :
Columbia University Press,
2016.
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | Intelligence services, government administrations, businesses, and a growing majority of the population are hooked on the idea that big data can reveal patterns and correlations in everyday life. Because big data renders quantifiable what we think of as social, it helps propel the project of modernity, which strives for knowledge, progress, better services, and more comfortable lives. Data Love argues that the dark side of data mining cannot be confined to tensions between citizens and government: the phenomenon has instigated a transfiguration of society, one in which we are all involved. Big. |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | PostfaceNotes; Index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (177 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780231542425 0231542429 |