TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richterich, Annika
AB  - "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."
DO  - 10.16997/book14
ID  - OAPEN ID: 649695
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1038397837
KW  - big data
KW  - predictive analytics
KW  - digital humanities
KW  - public health
KW  - discourse ethics
KW  - biomedical sciences
KW  - critical data studies
KW  - datafication
KW  - data ethics
KW  - health research
KW  - media and communications
KW  - Facebook
KW  - Informed consent
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/3ddbee2a-6aec-4434-822b-42a059ae4da8/649695.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30155
PB  - University of Westminster Press
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9781911534976; 9781911534730; 9781911534747; 9781911534754
TI  - The Big Data Agenda : Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies
ER  - 
