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Data: Now Bigger and Better! (Prickly Paradigm Press)
Genevieve Bell
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Description for Data: Now Bigger and Better! (Prickly Paradigm Press)
Paperback. Brings together researchers whose work is deeply informed by the conceptual frameworks of anthropology-frameworks that are comparative as well as field-based. This book also provide analytical provocations that can help reframe some of the most important shifts in technology and society in the first half of the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 116 x 178 x 7. Weight in Grams: 102.
Data is too big to be left to the data analysts. Data: Now Bigger and Better! brings together researchers whose work is deeply informed by the conceptual frameworks of anthropology-frameworks that are comparative as well as field-based. From kinship to gifts, everything old becomes rich with new insight when the anthropological archive washes over "big data." Bringing together anthropology's classic debates and contemporary interventions, the book counters the future-oriented speculation so characteristic of discussions regarding big data. Drawing on long-standing experience in industry contexts, the contributors also provide analytical provocations that can help reframe some of the most important shifts ... Read more
Data is too big to be left to the data analysts. Data: Now Bigger and Better! brings together researchers whose work is deeply informed by the conceptual frameworks of anthropology-frameworks that are comparative as well as field-based. From kinship to gifts, everything old becomes rich with new insight when the anthropological archive washes over "big data." Bringing together anthropology's classic debates and contemporary interventions, the book counters the future-oriented speculation so characteristic of discussions regarding big data. Drawing on long-standing experience in industry contexts, the contributors also provide analytical provocations that can help reframe some of the most important shifts ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780984201068
SKU
V9780984201068
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About Genevieve Bell
Tom Boellstorff is professor of anthropology and Bill Maurer is dean of social sciences and professor of anthropology and law, both at the University of California, Irvine.
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