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This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic contemporary overview of the field of critical data studies that reflects on practices of digital data collection and analysis. The book assesses in detail one big data research area: biomedical studies, focused on epidemiological surveillance. Specific case studies explore how big data have been used in academic work.
The Big Data Agenda concludes that the use of big data in research urgently needs to be considered from the vantage point of ethics and social justice. Drawing upon discourse ethics and critical data studies, Richterich argues that entanglements between big data research and technology/ internet corporations have emerged. In consequence, more opportunities for discussing and negotiating emerging research practices and their implications for societal values are needed.
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Keywords
- big data
- Bio-ethics
- Biology, Life Sciences
- Biomedical Sciences
- Computing & information technology
- Critical Data Studies
- Data Ethics
- Datafication
- Digital humanities
- Discourse Ethics
- Epidemiology & medical statistics
- Ethical & social aspects of IT
- Ethical issues & debates
- Health Research
- Health Surveillance
- Information technology: general issues
- Informed Consent
- KUnlatched
- Life sciences: general issues
- Mathematics & science
- Media & Communications
- Media and Communications
- Media Studies
- Medical bioinformatics
- medicine
- Medicine: General Issues
- Predictive analytics
- Public Health
- Public health & preventive medicine
- Social Science / Media Studies
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFV Ethical issues and debates
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBF Medical and health informatics
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNS Epidemiology and Medical statistics
- thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAD Bioethics
- thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics::UBJ Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects
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DOI: 10.16997/book14web: http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book14/
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