The Big Data Agenda Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: University of Westminster Press 2018
• Series: Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies
• Subjects: Bio-ethics; Epidemiology & medical statistics; Ethical & social aspects of IT; Ethical issues & debates; Media studies; Medical bioinformatics; big data; biomedical sciences; critical data studies; data ethics; datafication; digital humanities; discourse ethics; Facebook; health research; Informed consent; media and communications; predictive analytics; public health
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (154 p.)
• ISBN: 9781911534976; 9781911534730; 9781911534747; 9781911534754; book14
• Access: Open Access

"This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic contemporary overview of the field of critical data studies that reflects on practices of digital data collection and analysis. The book assesses in detail one big data research area: biomedical studies, focused on epidemiological surveillance. Specific case studies explore how big data have been used in academic work. The Big Data Agenda concludes that the use of big data in research urgently needs to be considered from the vantage point of ethics and social justice. Drawing upon discourse ethics and critical data studies, Richterich argues that entanglements between big data research and technology/ internet corporations have emerged. In consequence, more opportunities for discussing and negotiating emerging research practices and their implications for societal values are needed. An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. More information about the initiative and details about KU's Open Access programme can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org."