8. Data, Culture and the Ambivalence of Algorithms

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Foreword 11
5. Introduction 13
6. Section 1. Studying Culture through Data
7. 1. Humanistic Data Research 25
8. 2. Towards a ‘Humanistic Cinemetrics’? 39
9. 3. Cultural Analytics, Social Computing and Digital Humanities 55
10. 4. Case Study 69
11. 5. Foundations of Digital Methods 75
12. 6. Case Study 95
13. Section 2. Data Practices in Digital Data Analysis
14. 7. Digital Methods 109
15. 8. Data, Culture and the Ambivalence of Algorithms 125
16. 9. Unknowing Algorithms 139
17. 10. Social Data APIs 147
18. 11. How to Tell Stories with Networks 155
19. 12. Towards a Reflexive Digital Data Analysis 171
20. Section 3. Research Ethics
21. 13. Get Your Hands Dirty 183
22. 14. Research Ethics in Context 201
23. 15. Datafication & Discrimination 211
24. Section 4. Key Ideas in Big Data Research
25. 16. The Myth of Big Data 235
26. 17. Data Point Critique 241
27. 18. Opposing the Exceptionalism of the Algorithm 245
28. 19. The Need for a Dialogue with Technology 249
29. Tools 255
30. Notes on Contributors 257
31. Index 265