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Author: Nick Seaver

Big Data, Context Cultures

On September 23, 2015 By Nick SeaverIn Interns, papers

The latest issue of Media, Culture, and Society features an open-access discussion section responding to SMC all-stars danah boyd and Kate Crawford's "Critical Questions for Big Data." Though the article is only a few years old, it's been very influential and a lot has happened since it came out, so editors Aswin Punathambekar and Anastasia Kavada commissioned …

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