Metaphors of Big Data

By Cornelius Puschmann, Jean Burgess. 2014

108 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

1. Linnet Taylor
2. Craig M. Dalton
3. Jim Thatcher
4. Laura Mann
5. Andrew R. Schrock
6. Jathan Sadowski

Citations in the corpus

• What Communication Can Contribute to Data Studies: Three Lenses on Communication and Data (2017, background): “Another route for communication scholars is researching how data are defined across various communities of practice (Puschmann & Burgess, 2014).”
• Left to Other Peoples’ Devices? A Political Economy Perspective on the Big Data Revolution in Development (2017, background): “to be ‘unlocked’, ‘harnessed’ and ‘tapped’, rather than as discrete sources of information circulating within specific contexts and bureaucratic systems (Puschmann and Burgess, 2014).”
• Critical Data Studies: A dialog on data and space (2016, background): “By celebrating size as something new rather than an extension of an existing continuum, we give it an otherness and apply the terminology of natural resource extraction (Mann, forthcoming; Puschmann and Burgess, 2014) instead of that of social research.”