Thinking Big Data in Geography New Regimes, New Research / edited and with an introduction by Jim Thatcher, Josef Eckert, and Andrew Shears.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thatcher, Jim, 1980- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geospatial data.

Big data.

Geography--Data processing.

Geography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]

Summary:

Thinking Big Data in Geography offers a practical state-of-the-field overview of big data as both a means and an objectof research, with essays from prominent and emerging scholars such as Rob Kitchin, Renee Sieber, and Mark Graham. Part 1 explores how the advent of geoweb technologies and big data sets has influenced some of geography's major subdisciplines: urban politics and political economy, human-environment interactions, and geographic information sciences.Part 2 addresses how the geographic study of big data has implications for other disciplinary fields, notably the digital humanities and the study of social justice.The volume concludes with theoretical applications of the geoweb and big data as they pertain to society as a whole, examining the ways in which user-generated data come into the world and are complicit in its unfolding.The contributors raise caution regarding the use of spatial big data, citing issues of accuracy, surveillance, and privacy.

Contents:

Toward critical data studies : charting and unpacking data assemblages and their work / Rob Kitchin and Tracey P. Lauriault

Big data : why (oh why?) this computational social science? / David O'Sullivan

Smaller and slower data in an era of big data / Renee Sieber and Matthew Tenney

Reflexivity, positionality, and rigor in the context of big data research / Britta Ricker

A hybrid approach to geotweets : reading and mapping tweet contexts on marijuana legalization and same-sex marriage in Seattle, Washington / Jin-Kyu Jung and Jungyeop Shin

Geosocial footprints and geoprivacy concerns / Christopher D. Weidemann, Jennifer N. Swift, and Karen K. Kemp

Foursquare in the City of Fountains : using Kansas City as a case study for combining demographic and social media data / Emily Fekete

Big city, big data : four vignettes / Jessa Lingel

Framing digital exclusion in technologically mediated urban spaces / Matthew Kelley

Bringing the big data of climate change down to human scale : citizen sensors and personalized visualizations in climate communication / David Retchless

Synergizing Geoweb and digital humanitarian research / Ryan Burns

Rethinking the Geoweb and big data : future research directions/ Mark Graham.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496205377

1496205375

9781496205353

1496205359

OCLC:

1008767674