Publications
Publications
- 2019
- Consumption, Markets & Culture
Big Data
By: John A. Deighton
Abstract
Big data is defined and distinguished from a mere moment in the “ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified that, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs on big data is described as diffusing with unprecedented speed but as being difficult to analyze and critique, and, therefore, the designers of society’s big data infrastructure, whether human or machines, play an unacknowledged legislative function of great consequence.
Keywords
Big Data; Digital Infrastructure; Privacy; Algorithm; Data Generators; Marketplace Icon; Analytics and Data Science; Infrastructure; Power and Influence; Society
Citation
Deighton, John A. "Big Data." Consumption, Markets & Culture 22, no. 1 (2019): 68–73.