Big Data, urban governance, and the ontological politics of hyperindividualism

Big Data’s calculative ontology relies on and reproduces a form of hyperindividualism in which the ontological unit of analysis is the discrete data point, the meaning and identity of which inheres in itself, preceding, separate, and independent from its context or relation to any other data point....

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Main Author: Robert W Lake
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-05-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716682537