[ecrea] Gratis ebook: The Big Data Agenda – Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies

*Gratis ebook: The Big Data Agenda – Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies*


The Big Data Agenda: Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies by Annika 
Richterich has been published by University of Westminster Press.


The book is part of the Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies 
series which we here at WIAS collaborate with UWP on.


https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book14/


This new 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 thatreflectson practices of digital 
data collection and analysis. The book assesses in detail one big data 
research area: biomedicalstudies,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.


An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the 
support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a 
collaborative initiative designed to makehigh qualitybooks Open Access 
for the public good. More information about the initiative and details 
about KU's Open Access programme can be found 
atwww.knowledgeunlatched.org <http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/>.


*Chapters:*

 1. Introduction
 2. Examining (Big) Data Practices and Ethics
 3. Big Data: Ethical Debates
 4. Big Data in Biomedical Research
 5. Big Data-Driven Health Surveillance
 6. Emerging (Inter-)Dependencies and their Implications
 7.


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