Author : Jim Thatcher,Andrew Shears,Josef Eckert
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803278820
Thinking Big Data in Geography by Jim Thatcher,Andrew Shears,Josef Eckert Pdf
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1. Toward Critical Data Studies -- 2. Big Data ... Why (Oh Why?) This Computational Social Science? -- Part 2 -- 3. Smaller and Slower Data in an Era of Big Data -- 4. Reflexivity, Positionality, and Rigor in the Context of Big Data Research -- Part 3 -- 5. A Hybrid Approach to Geotweets -- 6. Geosocial Footprints and Geoprivacy Concerns -- 7. Foursquare in the City of Fountains -- Part 4 -- 8. Big City, Big Data -- 9. Framing Digital Exclusion in Technologically Mediated Urban Spaces -- Part 5 -- 10. Bringing the Big Data of Climate Change Down to Human Scale -- 11. Synergizing Geoweb and Digital Humanitarian Research -- Part 6 -- 12. Rethinking the Geoweb and Big Data -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- About Jim Thatcher -- About Josef Eckert -- About Andrew Shears