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Synopsis
We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity
measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta-
denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even
insidious, with every click and every "like" stored somewhere for
something. This book reminds us 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; how data are variously "cooked" in the processes of
their collection and use; and conflicts over what can -- or can't -- be
"reduced" to data. Contributors discuss the intellectual history of data
as a concept; describe early financial modeling and some unusual sources for
astronomical data; discover the prehistory of the database in newspaper clippings
and index cards; and consider contemporary "dataveillance" of our online
habits as well as the complexity of scientific data curation.
Essay authors:Geoffrey C. Bowker, Kevin R.
Brine, Ellen Gruber Garvey, Lisa Gitelman, Steven J. Jackson, Virginia Jackson,
Markus Krajewski, Mary Poovey, Rita Raley, David Ribes, Daniel Rosenberg, Matthew
Stanley, Travis D. Williams
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About the Author
Lisa Gitelman is Professor of English and Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the coeditor of New Media, 1710--1915 (2003) and author of Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture (2006), both published by the MIT Press.
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