[Air-L] literature on theory and big data in social sciences
Jack Jen Gieseking
jgieseking at gmail.com
Wed May 31 07:12:13 PDT 2017
Hi all,
Here are some of the key citations/writers in geography on this topic.
Cheers, Jack
- Kitchin, Rob. 2014. *The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data
Infrastructures and Their Consequences*. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- Gieseking, Jen Jack. 2017 (forthcoming). “Size Matters to Lesbians
Too: Queer Feminist Interventions into the Scale of Big Data.” *Professional
Geographer*. http://bit.ly/jg-socarx-sizematt.
- Thatcher, Jim, David O’Sullivan, and Dillon Mahmoudi. 2016. “Data
Colonialism through Accumulation by Dispossession: New Metaphors for Daily
Data.” *Environment and Planning D: Society and Space* 34 (6): 990–1006.
doi:10.1177/0263775816633195.
- Dalton, Craig M., and Jim Thatcher. 2014. “Commentary: What Does a
Critical Data Studies Look Like, and Why Do We Care? Seven Points for a
Critical Approach to ‘big Data.’” *Environment & Planning D: Society &
Space*, May.
http://societyandspace.com/material/commentaries/craig-dalton-and-jim-thatcher-what-does-a-critical-data-studies-look-like-and-why-do-we-care-seven-points-for-a-critical-approach-to-big-data/
.
- Leszczynski, Agnieszka. 2015. “Spatial Big Data and Anxieties of
Control.” *Environment & Planning D: Society & Space* 33 (6): 965–84.
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On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 1:49 AM, Jonggun Lee <jonggunlee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Tom and others,
>
> You may want to have a look at a list of projects and activities of United
> Nations Global Pulse, which is an innovation initiative of the United
> Nations on Big Data and Data Revolution to harness the potentials of big
> data for society as social good, ethically and responsibly.
>
> http://unglobalpulse.org/
>
> Many thanks!
> Jonggun
>
> --
> Jong Gun Lee (Ph.D)
> Data Scientist & Research Lead
> Pulse Lab Jakarta - UN Global Pulse
>
> Wisma Nusantara
> Jl. MH. Thamrin No. 59
> Jakarta 10350 - Indonesia
> Phone: +62-(0)21-3983-8473
> Email: jonggun.lee at un.or.id
>
> http://unglobalpulse.org/jakarta
> Twitter and Facebook: @pulselabjakarta
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Scholz, Tobias <
> tobias.scholz at uni-siegen.de
> > wrote:
>
> > Dear Tom,
> >
> > my book "Big Data in Organizations and the Role of Human Resource
> > Management” (http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=625772) is not
> > precisely about social sciences, however, it is about the theoretical
> > understanding of big data in organisations. Besides that there are many
> > references in it, that may be helpful for you.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Tobias
> >
> > _________________________________
> > Dr. Tobias M. Scholz
> > Universität Siegen
> > Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insb.
> > Personalmanagement und Organisation
> > www.pmg.uni-siegen.de<http://www.pmg.uni-siegen.de>
> >
> > On 26 May 2017, at 12:06, Tom van Nuenen <tomvannuenen at gmail.com<mailto:
> > tomvannuenen at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Dear researchers of the Internet,
> >
> > I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory
> and
> > method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end
> > of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social
> > scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for
> > theory, method and the relations between them?
> >
> > Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in
> > advance!
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Tom van Nuenen
> > Assistant Professor Online Culture
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