![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, most of us would find it nearly impossible to imagine a social world without publics. How do we recognize them as members of our world? We are related to them as transient participants in common publics. ![]() Will large-scale search data help us create better tools, services, and public goods? Or will it usher in a new wave of privacy incursions and invasive marketing? Will data analytics help us understand online communities and political movements? Or will it be used to track protesters and suppress speech? Will it transform how we study human communication and culture, or narrow the palette of research options and alter what ‘research’ means? Given the rise of Big Data as a socio-tech.read more read lessĪbstract: Most of the people around us belong to our world not directly, as kin or comrades, but as strangers. Diverse groups argue about the potential benefits and costs of analyzing genetic sequences, social media interactions, health records, phone logs, government records, and other digital traces left by people. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and other scholars are clamoring for access to the massive quantities of information produced by and about people, things, and their interactions. ![]()
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