[Air-L] New book: The Datafied Society. Studying Culture through Data

[Mirko Tobias Schaefer]

Dear colleagues,

we are proud to announce that our book is now available (as 
embarrassingly expensive hard-cover AND as free download! See link 
below). A reasonably priced paperback will be out in August.

Best wishes,
mirko and Karin


    The Datafied Society. Studying Culture through Data

Mirko Tobias Schäfer & Karin van Es (eds)


     From the back-cover

The large corpus of empirical data and available tools for data 
collection and analysis are changing the ways knowledge is produced. For 
the humanities, this transformation requires not only that we must 
critically inquire into how technology affects our understanding of 
knowledge and how it alters our epistemic processes, but that we also 
need to employ the new data resources and technologies in new ways of 
scholarly investigation.

The Datafied Society: Studying Culture Through Data thinks through the 
opportunities and pitfalls of doing research with data provides within 
the humanities (and media studies in particular). It covers different 
research methods, considers how researchers can engage with the datafied 
society, and reflects on moral and discrimination issues that need to be 
tackled when embarking on research. Through a series of four short 
interviews with leading scholars it furthermore pinpoints the key ideas 
in big data research.

This book is a collection of scholarly investigations into 
computer-aided methods and practices. While several contributors offer 
essays representing their skills, methods and exemplary research 
projects, others reflect on the sensibilities and competencies that 
scholars need to develop in order to study contemporary culture through 
data. Together they make a volume that will stimulate and engage 
humanities scholars via their perspectives on debates and reflections on 
the theory and practices of digital data research./
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The book is published at Amsterdam University Press / Chicago University 
Press.
You can order it at 20% discount using the code "ageofdata2017"

<http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462981362-the-datafied-society.html>

<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/D/bo26268744.html>

Free download: <http://oapen.org/search?identifier=624771>


      Contributors

Julian Ausserhofer, Dominikus Baur, Thomas Boeschoten, Asher Boersma, 
Liliana Bounegru, Elizabeth Buchanan, Mercedes Bunz, Nicolás López 
Coombs, Nick Couldry, Karin van Es, Carolin Gerlitz, Daniel Goddemeyer, 
Jonathan Gray, Mathieu Jacomy, Koen Leurs, Lev Manovich, Annette 
Markham, Eef Masson, Evgeny Morozov, Christian Gosvig Olesen, Moritz 
Stefaner, Johannes Paßmann, Cornelius Puschmann, Bernhard Rieder, Theo 
Röhle, Richard Rogers, Natalia Sánchez-Querubin, Mirko Tobias Schäfer, 
Gerwin van Schie, Tamara Shepherd, William Uricchio, Tommaso Venturini, 
Irene Westra

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"As our world gets increasingly connected and mediatised, input and 
expertise from the humanities and social science becomes essential to 
understanding the dynamics, ethics and pragmatics of a datafied society. 
This book is an important contribution to meet the challenges of the 
platform-driven, data-fueled world in which we have all come to live."

<http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/d/i/j.f.t.m.vandijck/j.f.t.m.vandijck.html>José 
van Dijck <https://www.knaw.nl/nl/leden/leden/7836>, President of the 
Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, author of /The Culture 
of Connectivity/

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"We all know - or should know by now - how extensively corporations 
surveil our actions and analyze the data we leave behind. But we mustn't 
let our horror at the misuse of data dissuade us from considering how 
big data can aid us in our quest as scholars and changemakers to 
understand society, and to establish best and ethical practices in those 
pursuits. This is the first comprehensive look at the possibilities for 
a humanist approach to big data. "

Douglas Rushkoff <http://www.rushkoff.com/>, author of /Throwing Rocks 
at the Google Bus/ and /Program or Be Programmed/

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"/The Datafied Society. Studying Culture through Data/ provides an 
abundance of methodological tools and reflection. Through combining 
interesting empirical case studies with sound theoretical reasoning, 
this interdisciplinary anthology with its excellent and diverse 
contributions is a milestone in the study of culture through data."

Judith Simon <http://bubblestudies.ku.dk/employees/judith-simon/>, 
Co-editor /Big Data and Societ/y

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