The Data Revolution: A Critical Analysis of Big Data, Open Data and Data Infrastructures, Edition 2
About this ebook
Thoroughly updated, including ten new chapters, the book provides an accessible and comprehensive:
- introduction to thinking conceptually about the nature of data and the field of critical data studies
- overview of big data, open data and data infrastructures
- analysis of the utility and value of big and open data for research, business, government and civil society
- assessment of the concerns and risks in a data-driven world and how to prevent and mitigate them.
About the author
Rob Kitchin is a Professor in Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute and Department of Geography. He was a European Research Council Advanced Investigator on the Programmable City project (2013-2018) and a principal investigator on the Building City Dashboards project (2016-2020) and for the Digital Repository of Ireland (2009-2017). He is the (co)author or (co)editor of 31 other academic books, and (co)author of over 200 articles and book chapters. He has been an editor of Dialogues in Human Geography, Progress in Human Geography and Social and Cultural Geography, and was the co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. He was the 2013 recipient of the Royal Irish Academy’s Gold Medal for the Social Sciences.
