Datatrust: Or, the political quest for numerical evidence and the epistemologies of Big Data

Big Data and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Rieder, Gernot ^a,b   Simon, Judith ^a,b  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Big Data; epistemology; evidence based policy making; mechanical objectivity; quantification; trust in numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031815752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20539517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053951716649398     Document Type: Article

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