Big Data as a methodology for social research: Proposals, disclaimers, and dilemmas from sociology

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作者
Bienvenido, Hector Puente [1 ]
Gazquez, Diego de Haro [1 ]
Maceiras, Sergio D'Antonio [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain
[2] Univ Politecn Madrid, Madrid, Spain
来源
TEKNOKULTURA: REVISTA DE CULTURA DIGITAL Y MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALES | 2023年 / 20卷 / 02期
关键词
databases; digital methods; informational capitalism; open data; science and society; CONTROVERSIES; CRISIS;
D O I
10.5209/tekn.83875
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
The widely cited article 'The coming crisis of empirical sociology' foresaw an imminent problem of empirical sociology: its inability to incorporate the 'transactional' data of cognitive capitalism into its research practice. While the progressive expansion of technological intermediation in social interaction processes has generated an important techno-scientific barrier, the issue is, above all, economic and political, relegating sociology (and its methods) to the rear of social and market research. In this article, we develop a kind of archaeology of the construction of the concept of 'Big Data', exploring the main methodological alternatives proposed by the social sciences and the new perspectives that have emerged as a result of the concentration of information in a smaller number of companies.
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