Critical Data Studies

An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5095-6652-5
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Critical Data Studies has come of age as a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study. Taking data as its primary analytical focus, the field theorises the nature of data; examines how data are produced, managed, governed and shared; investigates how they are used to make sense of the world and to perform practical action; and explores whose agenda data-driven systems serve.

This book is the first comprehensive A-Z guide to the concepts and methods of Critical Data Studies, providing succinct definitions and descriptions of over 400 key terms, along with suggested further reading. The book enables readers to quickly navigate and improve their comprehension of the field, while also acting as a guide for discovering ideas and methods that will be of value in their own studies.
 
Critical Data Studies is essential reading for students and scholars from across the sciences, social sciences and humanities, as well as those who work with data professionally who want to extend and enrich their conceptual and practical understanding of data and their use.

This will be available as an Open Access book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kitchin, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction
How to use this book
A to Z of Critical Data Studies

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rob Kitchin is a professor in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute.