Big data Archives – ReviseSociology

Knowing Capitalism and Lively Data

Karl Thompson / January 21, 2018

Knowing Capitalism and Lively Data Nigel Thrift (2005) developed the concept of ‘knowing capitalism’ to denote a new form of […]

Changes in the way we interact and communicate lead to changes in the way we govern ourselves and just as

Karl Thompson / December 30, 2017

There are three main risks of Big Data:
the paralysis of privacy,
punishment through propensity,
the fetishization of and dictatorship through data

Karl Thompson / December 23, 2017

There are three types of company in the big-data value chain: the companies who collect the data, data-analytics companies, and

Karl Thompson / December 16, 2017

The first problem is that it will be more difficult for us to forget and escape our past…. While we

Karl Thompson / December 9, 2017

Big data will change the nature of social research – more data will do away with the need for sampling

Karl Thompson / December 3, 2017

Big Data will make Feedback more focussed on effective teaching rather than student progress, it will make learning more individualised,

Karl Thompson / November 18, 2017

Most of us are used to having our daily activities constantly monitored and evaluated – what we buy, how much

Karl Thompson / November 11, 2017

Big data refers to things one can do at a large scale that cannot be done at a smaller scale.