literature on theory and big data in social sciences
Dear researchers of the Internet, I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory and method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for theory, method and the relations between them? Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance! Best regards, Tom van Nuenen Assistant Professor Online Culture
dear Tom, maybe this First Monday issue might be useful: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/404 best, Polina 2017-05-26 13:06 GMT+03:00 Tom van Nuenen <tomvannuenen@gmail.com>:
Dear researchers of the Internet,
I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory and method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for theory, method and the relations between them?
Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Tom van Nuenen Assistant Professor Online Culture _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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A few basic references: Anderson, C. (2008): The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. WIRED, 23 Junio, http://www.wired.com/2008/06/pb-theory/ Andrejevic, M. (2013): Infoglut. How too Much Information is Changing the Way We Think and Know, New York, NY: Routledge. Boellstorff, T., & Maurer, B. (eds.) (2015): Data, Now Bigger and Better! Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press. Bolin, G., & Schwarz, J.A. (2015): Heuristics of the algorithm: Big Data, user interpretation and institutional translation. Big Data & Society, 2(2). doi: 10.1177/2053951715608406 Borgman, C.L. (2015): Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Crawford, K., Gray, ML, & Miltner, K. (2014): Critiquing Big Data: Politics, Ethics, Epistemology. International Journal of Communication, 8, pp. 1663-1672, http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/2167/1164 Gitelman, L. (ed.) (2013): Raw Data Is an Oxymoron, Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press. On 26 May 2017 at 12:09, Polina Kolozaridi <poli.kolozaridi@gmail.com> wrote:
dear Tom,
maybe this First Monday issue might be useful: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/404
best, Polina
2017-05-26 13:06 GMT+03:00 Tom van Nuenen <tomvannuenen@gmail.com>:
Dear researchers of the Internet,
I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory and method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for theory, method and the relations between them?
Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Tom van Nuenen Assistant Professor Online Culture _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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This might be relevant (cheeky self-promotion) to you and it contains several references to get a picture of the current debate. “Big Data is not only about data: the two cultures of modelling” Big Data & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951717703997 Best wishes, GV -- Giuseppe A. Veltri Professor in Research Methodology University of Trento ResearchGate From: Tom van Nuenen Sent: 26 May 2017 12:07 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] literature on theory and big data in social sciences Dear researchers of the Internet, I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory and method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for theory, method and the relations between them? Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance! Best regards, Tom van Nuenen Assistant Professor Online Culture _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Dear Tom, You might also find the special issue that Mark Coté, Paolo Gerbaudo and I did on the Politics of Big Data helpful. All of the articles speak to the areas you are interested in and are available here, from the Journal of Digital Culture and Society: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/dcs.2016.2.issue-2/issue-files/dcs.2016.2.i... Coté, Mark, Gerbaudo, Paolo and Pybus, Jennifer (2016) Introduction. Politics of Big Data Coté, Mark and Pybus, Jennifer (2016) Simondon on Datafication. A Techno-Cultural Method Gerbaudo, Paolo (2016) From Data Analytics to Data Hermeneutics. Online Political Discussions, Digital Methods and the Continuing Relevance of Interpretive Approaches Gerlitz, Carolin (2016) What Counts? Reflections on the Multivalence of Social Media Data, Digital Culture and Society Milan, Stefania and Velden, Lonneke van der (2016) The Alternative Epistemologies of Data Activism Murthy, Dhiraj, Gross, Alexander and McGarry, MarisaVisual (2016) Social Media and Big Data. Interpreting Instagram Images Posted on Twitter Rieder, Bernhard (2016) Big Data and the Paradox of Diversity All the best, Jennifer On 26/05/2017, 11:06, "Air-L on behalf of Tom van Nuenen" <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of tomvannuenen@gmail.com> wrote: Dear researchers of the Internet, I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory and method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for theory, method and the relations between them? Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance! Best regards, Tom van Nuenen Assistant Professor Online Culture _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Dear Tom, my book "Big Data in Organizations and the Role of Human Resource Management” (http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=625772) is not precisely about social sciences, however, it is about the theoretical understanding of big data in organisations. Besides that there are many references in it, that may be helpful for you. Best regards, Tobias _________________________________ Dr. Tobias M. Scholz Universität Siegen Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insb. Personalmanagement und Organisation www.pmg.uni-siegen.de<http://www.pmg.uni-siegen.de> On 26 May 2017, at 12:06, Tom van Nuenen <tomvannuenen@gmail.com<mailto:tomvannuenen@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear researchers of the Internet, I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory and method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for theory, method and the relations between them? Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance! Best regards, Tom van Nuenen Assistant Professor Online Culture _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Dear Tom and others, You may want to have a look at a list of projects and activities of United Nations Global Pulse, which is an innovation initiative of the United Nations on Big Data and Data Revolution to harness the potentials of big data for society as social good, ethically and responsibly. http://unglobalpulse.org/ Many thanks! Jonggun -- Jong Gun Lee (Ph.D) Data Scientist & Research Lead Pulse Lab Jakarta - UN Global Pulse Wisma Nusantara Jl. MH. Thamrin No. 59 Jakarta 10350 - Indonesia Phone: +62-(0)21-3983-8473 Email: jonggun.lee@un.or.id http://unglobalpulse.org/jakarta Twitter and Facebook: @pulselabjakarta On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Scholz, Tobias <tobias.scholz@uni-siegen.de
wrote:
Dear Tom,
my book "Big Data in Organizations and the Role of Human Resource Management” (http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=625772) is not precisely about social sciences, however, it is about the theoretical understanding of big data in organisations. Besides that there are many references in it, that may be helpful for you.
Best regards,
Tobias
_________________________________ Dr. Tobias M. Scholz Universität Siegen Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insb. Personalmanagement und Organisation www.pmg.uni-siegen.de<http://www.pmg.uni-siegen.de>
On 26 May 2017, at 12:06, Tom van Nuenen <tomvannuenen@gmail.com<mailto: tomvannuenen@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear researchers of the Internet,
I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory and method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for theory, method and the relations between them?
Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Tom van Nuenen Assistant Professor Online Culture _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Hi all, Here are some of the key citations/writers in geography on this topic. Cheers, Jack - Kitchin, Rob. 2014. *The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences*. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. - Gieseking, Jen Jack. 2017 (forthcoming). “Size Matters to Lesbians Too: Queer Feminist Interventions into the Scale of Big Data.” *Professional Geographer*. http://bit.ly/jg-socarx-sizematt. - Thatcher, Jim, David O’Sullivan, and Dillon Mahmoudi. 2016. “Data Colonialism through Accumulation by Dispossession: New Metaphors for Daily Data.” *Environment and Planning D: Society and Space* 34 (6): 990–1006. doi:10.1177/0263775816633195. - Dalton, Craig M., and Jim Thatcher. 2014. “Commentary: What Does a Critical Data Studies Look Like, and Why Do We Care? Seven Points for a Critical Approach to ‘big Data.’” *Environment & Planning D: Society & Space*, May. http://societyandspace.com/material/commentaries/craig-dalton-and-jim-thatch... . - Leszczynski, Agnieszka. 2015. “Spatial Big Data and Anxieties of Control.” *Environment & Planning D: Society & Space* 33 (6): 965–84. -- Jen Jack Gieseking Assistant Professor of Public Humanities American Studies Program, Trinity College 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106 www.jgieseking.org www.peopleplacespace.org @jgieseking <https://twitter.com/jgieseking> Pronouns: use both, prefer he/him/his On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 1:49 AM, Jonggun Lee <jonggunlee@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Tom and others,
You may want to have a look at a list of projects and activities of United Nations Global Pulse, which is an innovation initiative of the United Nations on Big Data and Data Revolution to harness the potentials of big data for society as social good, ethically and responsibly.
Many thanks! Jonggun
-- Jong Gun Lee (Ph.D) Data Scientist & Research Lead Pulse Lab Jakarta - UN Global Pulse
Wisma Nusantara Jl. MH. Thamrin No. 59 Jakarta 10350 - Indonesia Phone: +62-(0)21-3983-8473 Email: jonggun.lee@un.or.id
http://unglobalpulse.org/jakarta Twitter and Facebook: @pulselabjakarta
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Scholz, Tobias < tobias.scholz@uni-siegen.de
wrote:
Dear Tom,
my book "Big Data in Organizations and the Role of Human Resource Management” (http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=625772) is not precisely about social sciences, however, it is about the theoretical understanding of big data in organisations. Besides that there are many references in it, that may be helpful for you.
Best regards,
Tobias
_________________________________ Dr. Tobias M. Scholz Universität Siegen Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insb. Personalmanagement und Organisation www.pmg.uni-siegen.de<http://www.pmg.uni-siegen.de>
On 26 May 2017, at 12:06, Tom van Nuenen <tomvannuenen@gmail.com<mailto: tomvannuenen@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear researchers of the Internet,
I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory and method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for theory, method and the relations between them?
Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Tom van Nuenen Assistant Professor Online Culture _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Perhaps also the book, Compromised Data: from Social Media to Big Data, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/compromised-data-9781501306525/ On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 12:06 +0200, Tom van Nuenen wrote:
Dear researchers of the Internet,
I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory and method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for theory, method and the relations between them?
Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Tom van Nuenen Assistant Professor Online Culture _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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I do not know if it has been mentioned already, but I find Noortje Marres' new book to sound very promising Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social Research http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745684785.html Cheers, mirko ________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of sky c [skyc@riseup.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 6:27 AM To: Tom van Nuenen; air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] literature on theory and big data in social sciences Perhaps also the book, Compromised Data: from Social Media to Big Data, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/compromised-data-9781501306525/ On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 12:06 +0200, Tom van Nuenen wrote:
Dear researchers of the Internet,
I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory and method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for theory, method and the relations between them?
Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Tom van Nuenen Assistant Professor Online Culture _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Hello all, I'm very interested in reading the article “Commentary: What Does a Critical Data Studies Look Like, and Why Do We Care? Seven Points for a Critical Approach to ‘big Data'" but the web page is inaccessible to me. Google led me to this: https://www.countercartographies.org/critical-data-studies-look-like/ But the link from there still doesn't work. Assuming it's supposed to be open access, does anybody have a copy? By the way, I'm so happy about this thread! I wasn't aware of how many social sci/humanities scholars have been working on data and the "end of theory" (scare quotes necessary as far as I'm concerned). Regards, Emma On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Schaefer, M.T. (Mirko) <m.t.schaefer@uu.nl> wrote:
I do not know if it has been mentioned already, but I find Noortje Marres' new book to sound very promising
Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social Research http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745684785.html
Cheers, mirko ________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of sky c [ skyc@riseup.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 6:27 AM To: Tom van Nuenen; air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] literature on theory and big data in social sciences
Perhaps also the book, Compromised Data: from Social Media to Big Data, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/compromised-data-9781501306525/ On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 12:06 +0200, Tom van Nuenen wrote:
Dear researchers of the Internet,
I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory and method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for theory, method and the relations between them?
Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Tom van Nuenen Assistant Professor Online Culture _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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although it is less on social sciences, our edited volume The Datafied Society. Studying Culture through Data does address data and datapractices, but then in the humanities. There are also chapters on the ethical challenges for research integrity. It is available as free download: http://mtschaefer.net/entry/datafied-society/ Cheers, mirko ________________________________ From: Emma Stamm [stamm@vt.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2017 3:46 PM To: Schaefer, M.T. (Mirko) Cc: sky c; Tom van Nuenen; air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] literature on theory and big data in social sciences Hello all, I'm very interested in reading the article “Commentary: What Does a Critical Data Studies Look Like, and Why Do We Care? Seven Points for a Critical Approach to ‘big Data'" but the web page is inaccessible to me. Google led me to this: https://www.countercartographies.org/critical-data-studies-look-like/ But the link from there still doesn't work. Assuming it's supposed to be open access, does anybody have a copy? By the way, I'm so happy about this thread! I wasn't aware of how many social sci/humanities scholars have been working on data and the "end of theory" (scare quotes necessary as far as I'm concerned). Regards, Emma On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Schaefer, M.T. (Mirko) <m.t.schaefer@uu.nl<mailto:m.t.schaefer@uu.nl>> wrote: I do not know if it has been mentioned already, but I find Noortje Marres' new book to sound very promising Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social Research http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745684785.html Cheers, mirko ________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org>] on behalf of sky c [skyc@riseup.net<mailto:skyc@riseup.net>] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 6:27 AM To: Tom van Nuenen; air-l@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] literature on theory and big data in social sciences Perhaps also the book, Compromised Data: from Social Media to Big Data, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/compromised-data-9781501306525/ On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 12:06 +0200, Tom van Nuenen wrote:
Dear researchers of the Internet,
I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory and method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for theory, method and the relations between them?
Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Tom van Nuenen Assistant Professor Online Culture _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Emma, I was able to find in the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160611062657/http://societyandspace.com/materi... <https://web.archive.org/web/20160611062657/http://societyandspace.com/material/commentaries/craig-dalton-and-jim-thatcher-what-does-a-critical-data-studies-look-like-and-why-do-we-care-seven-points-for-a-critical-approach-to-big-data/> Michael Dr. Michael J. Faris Assistant Professor, Technical Communication and Rhetoric Director, Media Lab English Department Texas Tech University http://michaeljfaris.com/blog
On Jun 8, 2017, at 8:46 AM, Emma Stamm <stamm@vt.edu> wrote:
Hello all,
I'm very interested in reading the article “Commentary: What Does a Critical Data Studies Look Like, and Why Do We Care? Seven Points for a Critical Approach to ‘big Data'" but the web page is inaccessible to me. Google led me to this:
https://www.countercartographies.org/critical-data-studies-look-like/
But the link from there still doesn't work. Assuming it's supposed to be open access, does anybody have a copy?
By the way, I'm so happy about this thread! I wasn't aware of how many social sci/humanities scholars have been working on data and the "end of theory" (scare quotes necessary as far as I'm concerned).
Regards,
Emma
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Schaefer, M.T. (Mirko) <m.t.schaefer@uu.nl> wrote:
I do not know if it has been mentioned already, but I find Noortje Marres' new book to sound very promising
Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social Research http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745684785.html
Cheers, mirko ________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of sky c [ skyc@riseup.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 6:27 AM To: Tom van Nuenen; air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] literature on theory and big data in social sciences
Perhaps also the book, Compromised Data: from Social Media to Big Data, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/compromised-data-9781501306525/ On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 12:06 +0200, Tom van Nuenen wrote:
Dear researchers of the Internet,
I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory and method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for theory, method and the relations between them?
Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Tom van Nuenen Assistant Professor Online Culture _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Dear Tom and others, Here are links to a few papers that myself and other have written on this subject lately. I hope they are of use (sorry for the self-promotion): Madsen et al (2017); *Big Data: Issues for an International Political Sociology of Data Practices* . *Int Polit Sociol* 2016; 10 (3): 275-296. doi: 10.1093/ips/olw010: https://academic.oup.com/ips/article/10/3/275/1751058/Big-Data-Issues-for-an... Madsen & Flyverbom (2015), *Sorting data out*, available at: https://www.academia.edu/19768604/Sorting_Data_Out_-_unpacking_big_data_valu... Flyverbom et al (2017). *Big data as governmentality in international development: Digital traces, algorithms, and altered visibilities, *The Information Society: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2016.1248611 ...and a chapter on the use of digitale methods in UN Global Pulse Madsen, A.K (2015), *Tracing Data - Paying Attention*, available at: https://www.academia.edu/19768480/_Tracing_Data_Paying_Attention_-_Interpret... Besides that I agree with many of the papers suggested in the thread so far. I want to recommend the work of Evelyn Ruppert, which I really enjoy. Most of what she has written about digital citizenship and populations is informative. Best, Anders 2017-05-26 12:06 GMT+02:00 Tom van Nuenen <tomvannuenen@gmail.com>:
Dear researchers of the Internet,
I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between theory and method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed 'end of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for social scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean for theory, method and the relations between them?
Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Tom van Nuenen Assistant Professor Online Culture _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Tom van Nuenen