Ontologies, methodologies, and new uses of Big Data in the social and cultural sciences
Ontologies, methodologies, and new uses of Big Data in the social and cultural sciences
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大数据在社会和文化科学中的本体论、方法论和新用途
作者：
Robin Wagner;J. Mohr;R. Breiger
在《大数据与社会》的《用大数据构想社会》特刊介绍中，我们调查了人文和社会科学学者的18篇贡献，并强调了其中和跨学科出现的几个问题和主题。这些新出现的问题反映了利用大数据访问和评估社会的挑战、问题和承诺。它们包括关于人类生活的轨迹和性质，解释的性质，个体实体和代理人的分类结构，上下文和时间性的性质和相关性，以及因果关系的确定等难题。因此，引言部分沿着一系列二进制概念来反映这些主题的二元性和动态性：生命/数据;思维/机器;归纳/演绎。
In our Introduction to the Conceiving the Social with Big Data Special Issue of Big Data & Society, we survey the 18 contributions from scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and highlight several questions and themes that emerge within and across them. These emergent issues reflect the challenges, problems, and promises of working with Big Data to access and assess the social. They include puzzles about the locus and nature of human life, the nature of interpretation, the categorical constructions of individual entities and agents, the nature and relevance of contexts and temporalities, and the determinations of causality. As such, the Introduction reflects on the contributions along a series of binaries that capture the dualities and dynamisms of these themes: Life/Data; Mind/Machine; and Induction/Deduction.