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As machine-readable data comes to play an increasingly important role in everyday life, researchers find themselves with rich resources for studying society. The novel methods and tools needed to work with such data require not only new knowledge and skills, but also a new way of thinking about best research practices. This book critically reflects on the role and usefulness of big data, challenging overly optimistic expectations about what such information can reveal, introducing practices and methods for its analysis and visualisation, and raising important political and ethical questions regarding its collection, handling, and presentation.

Digital humanities --- Big data --- Research. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Data sets, Large --- Large data sets --- Humanities --- Data processing --- Information technology --- Data sets --- Internet research, data analysis, data visualization, social media, data journalism, society.

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As more and more aspects of everyday life are turned into machine-readable data, researchers are provided with rich resources for researching society. The novel methods and innovative tools to work with this data not only require new knowledge and skills, but also raise issues concerning the practices of investigation and publication. This book critically reflects on the role of data in academia and society and challenges overly optimistic expectations considering data practices as means for understanding social reality.

Methods in social research (general) --- Sociology of culture --- Big data --- Digital humanities --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Research. --- 406 Privacy --- 696.2 Sociale media --- E-books