A Critical Axiology for Big Data Studies

Shahin, Saif

doi:10.5294/pacla.2016.19.4.2

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“…In this sense, reports of bad practices of the main companies that use Big Data, such as Facebook and Google, that compromise user privacy, in addition to Edward Snowden's revelation that the US government was using surveillance programs on a global scale in complicity with technology companies, showing that Big Data is not the solution for all the problems of society and industry. Instead, Big Data may be widening the gaps in different sectors of society [40].…”

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Big data, key factor for the knowledge society

Cardona¹

2019

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We are currently in an era of information explosion that affects our life in one way or another. Because of this, the transformation of huge databases into knowledge has become one of the tasks of greatest interest to society in general. Big Data was born as an instrument for knowledge due to the inability of current computer systems to store and process large volumes of data. The knowledge society arises from the use of technologies such as Big Data. The purpose of this article is to analyze the influence of Big Data on the knowledge society through a review of the state of the art supported by research articles and books published in the last 15 years, which allow us to put these two terms into context, understand their relationship and highlight the influence of Big Data as a generator of knowledge for today's society. The concept of Big Data, and its main applications to society will be defined. The concept of the Information Society is addressed and the main challenges it has are established. The relationship between both concepts is determined. And finally the conclusions are established. In order to reduce the digital divide, it is imperative to make profound long-term changes in educational models and public policies on investment, technology and employment that allow the inclusion of all social classes. In this sense, knowledge societies with the help of Big Data are called to be integrative elements and transform the way they are taught and learned, the way they are investigated, new social and economic scenarios are simulated, the brand decisions in Companies and share knowledge.

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Big data, key factor for the knowledge society

Cardona¹

2019

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Transnationalising <i>Dadis</i> as Feminist Political/Activist Subjects

Gajjala

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Rahut

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Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics

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This article examines Twitter publics to map how the ‘<i>dadis</i> of Shaheen Bagh’ (grandmothers of Shaheen Bagh) emerged as political subjects through transnational media space even though they themselves did not directly access social media. A team of feminist media researchers examine how social media networks were mobilised strategically to gain international visibility and traction. Through a feminist close reading of Twitter data and a select few in-depth and unstructured interviews with various associated actors, this mediated visibility of seemingly subaltern women is mapped. This article draws on transnational/postcolonial feminist frameworks to examine digital public presences. This study uses a multi-methods approach that includes qualitative interviews with activists (local and transnational) and related actors as well as a situated feminist data analytics and critical digital humanities approach to examining big social data online. In examining the mediated production of this visibility, however, the study does not wish to imply that the women whose presence is amplified in international media are not actual protestors or to deny, discount or appropriate their agency or labour as activists.

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