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The Datafied Society – Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Karin van Es
From the back-cover The large corpus of empirical data and available tools for data collection and analysis are changing the ways knowledge is produced. For the humanities, this transformation requires not only that we must critically inquire into how technology affects our understanding of knowledge and how it alters our epistemic processes, but that we…
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The Data School places master course students as Embedded Research Assistants for carrying out an applied research project. The Embedded Research Assistants are selected concerning their individual qualities and the skills needed for the assignment. During the project, senior staff at Data School supervises and tutors the student and provides assistance or even additional training….
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From the back-cover The large corpus of empirical data and available tools for data collection and analysis are changing the ways knowledge is produced. For the humanities, this transformation requires not only that we must critically inquire into how technology affects our understanding of knowledge and how it alters our epistemic processes, but that we…
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Datafied Society is a research platform in Utrecht for investigating the impact of datafication on society. Datafication describes the structural translation of everyday activities and interactions into tabulated information that becomes available for analysis processes (Mayer-Schönberger and Cukier 2013). Increasingly, these data analyses inform decision making in public governance and management; they are used to…
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Books / edited volumes Van Es, Karin and Eef Masson, eds. 2018. Big Data Histories. TMG: Journal for Media History 21(2) [open access link] Schäfer, Mirko and Karin van Es (eds). 2017. The Datafied Society. Studying Culture through Data. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [PDF] Schäfer, Mirko Tobias (ed.) 2016. Challenging Citizenship: Social Media and Big…
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