The Big Data Agenda: Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies

Richterich, Annika

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“…Furthermore, working at a broad scale does not replace close reading, but it changes our engagement with the source material. Over recent years – and owing to the accessibility both of datasets and of computer packages capable of synthesising and transforming larger and more complex datasets – the number of data-intensive studies conducted has risen almost exponentially in the hard sciences, in social sciences and (to a lesser extent) in the humanities (Kaplan 2015; Richterich 2018, 1–12). Moreover, techniques have been developed to identify patterns above the ‘messiness’ or ‘background noise’ necessarily created in synthesising datasets of such magnitude (Gattiglia 2015, 2–3).…”

Section: Scale and Methodology: A Reductionist Approach?mentioning

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Early Modern Travellers in the Aegean: Routes and Networks

Loy

2019

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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This study uses the collection of fifteenth- to twentieth-century travel literature from the BSA library to consider issues of (elite) mobility in the Aegean Sea. These texts contain a wealth of information on the routes chosen by travellers between various islands and mainland ports, and on the navigability of the Aegean basin. By using a combination of computational Proximal Point Analysis and Social Network Analysis, these routes are visualised, and discussion focuses on how navigation varied both between centuries and according to the traveller's place of origin. It is suggested that travellers were dependent on other sorts of networks, and that routes travelled were shaped greatly by the economics and politics of the day. It is also proposed that methodologies used in this paper offer great potential for engaging broad-scale sets of archive data.

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Section: Scale and Methodology: A Reductionist Approach?mentioning

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Early Modern Travellers in the Aegean: Routes and Networks

Loy

2019

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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“…As such, big data-driven research often depends on the controlled data access granted by the corporations involved (e.g. Google) (Richterich 2018). Moreover, access to corporate data often requires specific computational knowledge, which acts as an access barrier (boyd and Crawford 2012).…”

Section: The Use Of Apis In Transport Research: Strengths and Weaknessesmentioning

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“…privacy issues, informed consent, etc.) of the provided data is difficult to address (Richterich 2018).…”

Section: The Use Of Apis In Transport Research: Strengths and Weaknessesmentioning

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A bimodal accessibility analysis of Australia through application programming interfaces

Meire

Derudder

2020

Transportmetrica A: Transport Science

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In this paper we discuss some of the major strengths and limitations of an application programming interfaces (API)-based approach to studying accessibility in transport networks. To this end, we present a framework for assessing the bimodal accessibility of locations by using publicly available webbased resources that can be accessed via APIs. By way of empirical example, we query the Google Maps Distance Matrix and Google QPX Express APIs to collect travel time for both land-and airside travel, and process the extracted data using Python. We then apply our analytical strategy to the case of Australian statistical units to illustrate our data collection and processing framework, and in the process try to improve our understanding of the Australian urbangeographical landscape in terms of its bimodal accessibility. In addition to a largely-expected accessibility pattern centred on major agglomerations, we also reveal a number of idiosyncratic and perhaps less-expected geographical patterns.

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“…Gitelman (2013) highlights that data already carries the potential of future information. Gitelman most resonant statement is that there is no raw data (2013, 1), which becomes a crucial tenet for critical data studies (Richterich 2018). She warns that our lack of criticality allows us to ignore the fact that data is always designed, stored, collected, gathered, etc.…”

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On Care Robots and the Ethics of Tracking

Stamboliev¹

2020

InfTars

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This paper establishes a transdisciplinary exploration of care robots and their tracking capacity as an ethical performance. It does this to highlight the concerns around the ubiquity and availability of data in care contexts. In my attempt to scrutinise care robots beyond being humanoid and sociable actors, but instead as data tracking technologies, I link robot ethics, media and surveillance studies with posthuman and performative ethics to redefine tracking as an ethical microcosm within care robots. I do this, first, by challenging how to look at care robots and robot interactivity, particularly in reference to tracking as an ethical, not necessarily moral, question of interactivity and relationality. This angle will challenge the ethical timing and evaluation around tracking as an inherently ethical relation. Second, by arguing that the common ethical views on tracking are about concerns of privacy intrusion and data infringement while overlooking that a main ethical issue might not be a robotic intention to spy but the availability of data because of robots. Consequently, what deserves more attention in the ethics of robots is the growing ubiquity of care robots, the sensitivity of care contexts, and the acknowledgement of data appropriation; the latter being especially important considering the vulnerability of health care environments, and the growing commercial value of health data.

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The Big Data Agenda: Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies

Cited by 53 publications

References 73 publications

Early Modern Travellers in the Aegean: Routes and Networks

Early Modern Travellers in the Aegean: Routes and Networks

A bimodal accessibility analysis of Australia through application programming interfaces

On Care Robots and the Ethics of Tracking

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