CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR BIG DATA Provocations for a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon
CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR BIG DATA Provocations for a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon
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DOI：
10.1080/1369118x.2012.678878
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Crawford, Kate
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作者：
Boyd, Danah;Crawford, Kate
大数据时代已经开始。计算机科学家、物理学家、经济学家、数学家、政治科学家、生物信息学家、社会学家和其他学者都在大声疾呼，要求获得由人、物及其相互作用产生的大量信息。不同的团体争论分析基因序列、社交媒体互动、健康记录、电话记录、政府记录和人们留下的其他数字痕迹的潜在好处和成本。重要的问题出现了。大规模的搜索数据会帮助我们创造更好的工具、服务和公共产品吗？或者它会迎来新一轮的隐私入侵和侵入式营销？数据分析能帮助我们了解在线社区和政治运动吗？或者它会被用来跟踪抗议者和压制言论？它是否会改变我们研究人类交流和文化的方式，或者缩小研究选择的范围，改变“研究”的含义？鉴于大数据作为一种社会技术现象的兴起，我们认为有必要批判性地质疑其假设和偏见。在这篇文章中，我们提供了六个引发关于大数据问题的对话的挑衅：一种文化，技术和学术现象，依赖于技术，分析和神话的相互作用，引发了广泛的乌托邦和反乌托邦言论。
The era of Big Data has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and other scholars are clamoring for access to the massive quantities of information produced by and about people, things, and their interactions. Diverse groups argue about the potential benefits and costs of analyzing genetic sequences, social media interactions, health records, phone logs, government records, and other digital traces left by people. Significant questions emerge. Will large-scale search data help us create better tools, services, and public goods? Or will it usher in a new wave of privacy incursions and invasive marketing? Will data analytics help us understand online communities and political movements? Or will it be used to track protesters and suppress speech? Will it transform how we study human communication and culture, or narrow the palette of research options and alter what 'research' means? Given the rise of Big Data as a socio-technical phenomenon, we argue that it is necessary to critically interrogate its assumptions and biases. In this article, we offer six provocations to spark conversations about the issues of Big Data: a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon that rests on the interplay of technology, analysis, and mythology that provokes extensive utopian and dystopian rhetoric.