Launch Big Data Histories issue

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‘Big Data Histories’ special issue of TMG – Journal for Media History

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Programme

15.30 Opening by issue editors Karin van Es (UU) and Eef Masson (UvA)
15.40 “The Database Revolution, 1970s/80s” – Dr. Niels Kerssens
16.10 “Unmasking Biometrics’ Biases” – Rosa Wevers, MA
16.30 “Race-Ethnic Categorization in Dutch Census Reports, 1899–2018” – Gerwin van Schie, MA
16.50 Closing remarks
17.00 Drinks

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TMG – Journal for Media History 21, no. 2, special issue “Big Data Histories”

(Available on www.tmgonline.nl in the course of November 2018)

Table of Contents

Editorial
Big Data Histories: An Introduction – Karin van Es, Eef Masson

Articles (peer reviewed)

Part 1 – Contemporary Big Data Practices in Historical Perspective

The Database ‘Revolution’: The Technological and Cultural Origins of the Big Data-based Mindset in American Management, 1970s–1980s – Niels Kerssens

A Culture of Competition: Sport’s Historical Contribution to Datafication – Markus Stauff

Trust in Techno-images: Early Media Collections as Precursors of Big Data – Frank Kessler, Mirko Tobias Schäfer

Origins: A History of Race-Ethnic Categorization in the Dutch Governmental Data Ontology, 1899–2018 – Gerwin van Schie

Unmasking Biometrics’ Biases: Facing Gender, Race, Class and Ability in Biometric Data – Rosa Wevers

Part 2 – Big Data in Media (History) Research: Developments and Historical Entanglements

Writing Cinema Histories with Digital Databases: The Case of Cinema Context – Julia Noordegraaf, Kathleen Lotze, Jaap Boter

From Text Mining to Visual Classification: Rethinking Computational New Cinema History with Jean Desmet’s Digitised Business Archive – Christian Gosvig Olesen, Ivan Kisjes

Interviews
by Eef Masson and Karin van Es

Part 1 – Constructing Knowledge on Big Data: Methods in Historical Context

Alison Powell on Data Walking
Mirko Tobias Schäfer on Entrepreneurial Research

Part 2 – Issues in Big Data Practice: Histories and Historiographies

Anne Helmond on Researching the History of the Web
William Uricchio on the Colonization of the Data-Imaginary in the Public Service Sector

Part 3 – Big Data Art, Present and Past

Data-Based Art, Algorithmic Poetry: Geert Mul in conversation with Eef Masson – Geert Mul, Eef Masson

Review

Making Sense of the Data-driven: SETUP’s Algorithmic History Museum and its Relevance for Contemporary Reflection – Maranke Wieringa