The locus of legitimate interpretation in Big Data sciences: Lessons for computational social science from -omic biology and high-energy physics

This paper argues that analyses of the ways in which Big Data has been enacted in other academic disciplines can provide us with concepts that will help understand the application of Big Data to social questions. We use examples drawn from our Science and Technology Studies (STS) analyses of -omic b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrew Bartlett, Jamie Lewis, Luis Reyes-Galindo, Neil Stephens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-05-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951718768831