A number of people asked me to share the results of my request, from a few days ago, for recommended readings on Big Data suitable for undergraduate students. My thanks to all who were willing to share. The results are compiled below. Any errors in classification or details are mine alone. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain *Readings in “Big Data” appropriate for advanced undergraduates (2013-MAR-01) Bibliographies Weigel, M. (2012, Sept. 20). What is Big Data? Research roundup, reading list. Journalist’s Resource. http://journalistsresource.org/studies/economics/business/what-big-data-rese... Introductory Articles Anderson, J. & Rainie, L. (2012, July) Pew Internet & American Life Projectreport: “The Future of Big Data.” http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2012survey/future_Big_Da... Bollier, D. (2010). “The Promise and Peril of Big Data.” (excerpt) http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/docs/pubs/The_Prom... boyd, d. & Crawford, K. (2012). Critical Questions for Big Data. <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2012.678878>Information, Communication & Society, 15:5, 662-679. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2012.678878 Critical Articles Anderson, Chris (2008). “The End of Theory, Will the Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete?” Edge. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/anderson08/anderson08_index.html Berry, David M. (2011). The Computational Turn: Thinking About the Digital Humanities. Culture Machine, 12. http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/440/470 Latour, Bruno (2009). “Tarde’s idea of quantification.” The Social After Gabriel Tarde: Debates and Assessments. Ed. Mattei Candea. Routledge, London, pp. 145-162. http://www.bruno-latour.fr/articles/article/116-TARDE-CANDEA.pdf Manovich, Lev. "Trending: The Promises and the Challenges of Big Social Data." Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. The University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2012. http://www.manovich.net/DOCS/Manovich_trending_paper.pdf Tooling Up for Digital Humanities: Digitization. Stanford University, 2011. http://toolingup.stanford.edu/?page_id=123 Shirky, Clay (2005). “Ontology is Overrated.” http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html Analysis Lee, A. M., Lewis, S. C., & Powers, M. J. (2012, Nov. 20). Audience clicks and news placement: A study of time-lagged influence in online journalism. Communication Research. DOI: 10.1177/0093650212467031. Paper available at: http://bit.ly/QbSXS7 Books Cukier, K. & Mayer-Schonberger, V. (2013). Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think. Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (256 pages) Rogers, Richard (2013). Digital Methods. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (280 pages) Stanton, J. (2013). Introduction to Data Science. http://jsresearch.net/groups/teachdatascience/ Textbooks Marz, N. & Warren, J. (2012). Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems. Westampton, NJ: Manning e-book available at http://manning.com/marz/ Softbound print in Fall 2013 (425 pages). Wikileaks Issues Lynch, Lisa (2010). “A Toxic Archive of Digital Sunshine: Wikileaks and the Archiving of Secrets.” Paper presented at the MIT6 conference, Cambridge, MA. http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/papers/Lynch.pdf Lovink, Geert and Patrice Riemens (2010). “Twelve Theses on WikiLeaks,” Eurozine. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-12-07-lovinkriemens-en.html Stalder, Felix (2010). “Contain this! Leaks, whistle−blowers and the networked news ecology.” Eurozine. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-11-29-stalder-en.html Sterling, Bruce (2010), “The Blast Shack,” Webstock. http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2010/the-blast-shack/ Žižek, Slavoj (2011). “Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks,” The London Review of Books, 33:2, 9-10. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n02/slavoj-zizek/good-manners-in-the-ageof-wikileak... Video Castells, M. (2011), “From WikiLeaks to Wiki-revolutions,” SONIC Media, Technology and Society Speaker Series, Lecture on 8 March 2011 at Northwestern University, Video Registration available at: http://lecture.soc.northwestern.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=4e192796ace943fab... *