Thinking big data in geography : new regimes, new research / edited and with an introduction by Jim Thatcher, Josef Eckert, and Andrew Shears.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Description
xxv, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-285) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Jim Thatcher, Andrew Shears, and Josef Eckert
    • Part 1. What is big data and what does it mean to study it?. 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
    • Part 2. Methods and praxis in big data research. 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
    • Part 3. Empirical interventions. 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
    • Part 4. Urban big data : urban-centric and uneven. Big city, big data : four vignettes / Jessa Lingel
    • Framing digital exclusion in technologically mediated urban spaces / Matthew Kelley
    • Part 5. Talking across borders. 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
    • Part 6. Conclusions. Rethinking the Geoweb and big data : future research directions / Mark Graham.
    ISBN
    • 9780803278820 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
    • 0803278829 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
    • 9781496204981 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)
    • 1496204980 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)
    LCCN
    2017026971
    OCLC
    1008772888
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