Raw Data Is an Oxymoron

Raw Data Is an Oxymoron

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Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every "like" stored somewhere for something. This book reminds readers that data is anything but "raw," that we shouldn't think of data as a natural resource but as a cultural one that needs to be generated, protected, and interpreted. The book's essays describe eight episodes in the history of data from the predigital to the digital. Together they address such issues as the ways that different kinds of data and different domains of inquiry are mutually defining.

Gitelman, Lisa
Jackson, Virginia

2013

Elena Rogalle

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ISBN 9780262518284

Gitelman, Lisa and Virginia Jackson. “Raw Data" Is an Oxymoron . Ed. Lisa Gitelman. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2013.