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49Big Data and realityBig Data and Society 2 (2). 2015.DNA sequencers, Twitter, MRIs, Facebook, particle accelerators, Google Books, radio telescopes, Tumblr: what do these things have in common? According to the evangelists of “data science,” all of these are instruments for observing reality at unprecedentedly large scales and fine granularities. This perspective ignores the social reality of these very different technological systems, ignoring how they are made, how they work, and what they mean in favor of an exclusive focus on what they generat…Read more
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University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSchool of Information and Library ScienceAssociate Professor
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America