The Rise of Big Data: How It’s Changing the Way We Think about the World

By K. Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Mircea Pitici. 2014

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Sociology in the Era of Big Data: The Ascent of Forensic Social Science (2015, neutral): “In biomedicine, scholars refer to this as the “ big data ” revolution (Cukier and Mayer-Schoenberge 2013; Hilbert and López 2011; Lohr 2012); in the social sciences, they refer to it by the same name or as “ computational social science ” (Lazer et al. 2009).”
The Participatory Turn in AI Design: Theoretical Foundations and the Current State of Practice (2023, background): “This involves including stakeholders in data generation and interactions with data collection infrastructures [17, 59, 144], data labeling or annotation [103, 147, 169, 209], feedback for optimization [15, 46, 81, 135], and end users’ discretionary work to make the system work [5].”
Big Data from the South(s): Beyond Data Universalism (2019, neutral): “Western epistemic centers—especially those traditionally considered the interpreters and storytellers of technological development—have produced hyperbolic narratives of the “big data revolution” (see, for one, Cukier and Mayer-Schoenberger 2013).”
Data for life: Wearable technology and the design of self-care (2016, background): “16 Data collected by individuals for their own health or fitness projects can be recombined with that of others to draw population-wide correlations and inferences (Cukier and Mayer-Schönberger, 2013; MayerSchönberger and Cukier, 2013, Chapter 6). Steve Downs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ha”