The Datafied Society: Studying Culture through Data

Abstract

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: New Brave World / Karin van Es & Mirko Tobias Schäfer -- Section 1 - Studying Culture through Data -- 1. Humanistic Data Research: An Encounter between Epistemic Traditions / Eef Masson -- 2. Towards a 'Humanistic Cinemetrics'? / Christian Gosvig Olesen -- 3. Cultural Analytics, Social Computing and Digital Humanities / Lev Manovich -- 4. Case Study: On Broadway / Daniel Goddemeyer, Moritz Stefaner, Dominikus Baur & Lev Manovich -- 5. Foundations of Digital Methods: Query Design / Richard Rogers -- 6. Case Study: Webs and Streams - Mapping Issue Networks Using Hyperlinks, Hashtags and (Potentially) Embedded Content / Natalia Sánchez-Querubín -- Section 2 - Data Practices in Digital Data Analysis -- 7. Digital Methods: From Challenges to Bildung / Bernhard Rieder & Theo Röhle -- 8. Data, Culture and the Ambivalence of Algorithms / William Uricchio -- 9. Unknowing Algorithms: On Transparency of Unopenable Black Boxes / Johannes Paßmann & Asher Boersma -- 10. Social Data APIs: Origin, Types, Issues / Cornelius Puschmann & Julian Ausserhofer -- 11. How to Tell Stories with Networks: Exploring the Narrative Affordances of Graphs with the Iliad / Tommaso Venturini, Liliana Bounegru, Mathieu Jacomy & Jonathan Gray -- 12. Towards a Reflexive Digital Data Analysis / Karin van Es, Nicolás López Coombs & Thomas Boeschoten -- Section 3 - Research Ethics -- 13. Get Your Hands Dirty: Emerging Data Practices as Challenge for Research Integrity / Gerwin van Schie, Irene Westra & Mirko Tobias Schäfer -- 14. Research Ethics in Context: Decision-Making in Digital Research / Annette Markham & Elizabeth Buchanan -- 15. Datafication & Discrimination / Koen Leurs & Tamara Shepherd -- Section 4 - Key Ideas in Big Data Research -- 16. The Myth of Big Data / Nick Couldry