Reinventing the Social Scientist and Humanist in the Era of Big Data
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Reinventing the Social Scientist and Humanist in the Era of Big Data

A Perspective from South African Scholars

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eBook - PDF

Reinventing the Social Scientist and Humanist in the Era of Big Data

A Perspective from South African Scholars

About this book

This book explores the big data evolution by interrogating the notion that big data is a disruptive innovation that appears to be challenging existing epistemologies inthe humanities and social sciences. Exploring various (controversial) facets of big data such as ethics, data power, and data justice, the book attempts to clarify the trajectoryof the epistemology of (big) data-driven science in the humanities and social sciences.

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Yes, you can access Reinventing the Social Scientist and Humanist in the Era of Big Data by Brokensha, Susan, Kotzé, Eduan in PDF and/or ePUB format. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
UJ Press
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781928424369
eBook ISBN
9781928424376

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Back
  3. Title Page
  4. Imprint
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. List of tables
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Foreword
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. The (fuzzy) origins of big data and the dangers of ignoring history
  12. 2. Locating big data in the (digital) humanities and (computational) social sciences
  13. 3. Big Data, big despair: Myths debunked and lessons learned
  14. 4. Big Data needs big ethics
  15. 5. Does big data visualisation make our endeavours less humanistic?
  16. 6. Data power in the era of big data: Friend or foe?
  17. 7. The place of qualitative data analysis software (QDAS) programmes in a big data world
  18. 8. The nitty-gritty: Big data infrastructure
  19. 9. Leveraging social scientific and humanistic expertise in the world of (big) data science
  20. 10. An example: Big data analysis in the humanities in South Africa
  21. References
  22. Index
  23. Back