Abstract
In the context of the feverish pace in which the social sciences are grappling with the implications for a turn toward ‘big data’, I suggest a different starting point: that big data are not necessarily social science data. In this somewhat speculative provocation, I argue that we should lean more on the notion that social media are phenomena and less on the notion that social media are evidence of phenomena. In doing so, I sketch four areas of potential criticality for an emerging big data studies.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 345-349 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Cultural Geographies |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 27 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2014
Keywords
- big data
- criticality
- geosocial
- social media
- social science
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Cultural Studies
- Environmental Science (miscellaneous)