Article:
Forms of binding: On data and not ‘fitting in’

dc.creatorGupta-Nigam, Anirban
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-08T13:20:20Z
dc.date.available2019-01-08T13:20:20Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractSmall data is often invoked as an antidote to the aggregative logic of big data which binds the world into a whole through the combination of discrete bits of information. This essay suggests that small and big data actually complement each other, particularly since the former refines (rather than challenges) the logic of the latter. If data binds individuals and the social into a relational whole, how can we begin to comprehend the desire to break free of such a relation? At a time when relation has become common sense – we are told to be social, network, and connect – is there any hope of locating a space away from the informational bind of relation? The essay historicises these questions by conceptualising moments when the relational bind of data frays ever so slightly to allow some relief from the landscape of big and small data. In so doing it engages Nigel Thrift’s concept of qualculation, Georges Canguilhem’s work on abnormality, and Ian Hacking’s examination of the taming of chance.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/3350
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/forms-binding-data-not-fitting/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4119
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectanomalyen
dc.subjectbackground mediaen
dc.subjectdigital mediaen
dc.subjectnew mediaen
dc.subjectpattern recognitionen
dc.subjectqualculationen
dc.subjectrelationen
dc.subjectreliefen
dc.subjectsmall dataen
dc.subjecttargetingen
dc.subjectAnomaliede
dc.subjectDigitale Mediende
dc.subjectNeue Mediende
dc.subjectMustererkennungde
dc.subjectKalkulationde
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleForms of binding: On data and not ‘fitting in’en
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationGupta-Nigam, Anirban (2016): Forms of binding: On data and not ‘fitting in’. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 5 (1), 111–130. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3350.
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2020-11-22T11:04:57
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/forms-binding-data-not-fitting/
local.source.epage130
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage111
local.source.volume5

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