Living on fumes: Digital footprints, data fumes, and the limitations of spatial big data

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1765-1783

  Thatcher, Jim ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Capital; Critical big data; Data fumes; Spatial big data

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011593442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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