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Thinking big data in geography : new regimes, new research

Title
Thinking big data in geography : new regimes, new research / edited and with an introduction by Jim Thatcher, Josef Eckert, and Andrew Shears.
Publication
Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]

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Additional Authors
  • Thatcher, Jim, 1980-
  • Eckert, Josef
  • Shears, Andrew
Description
xxv, 296 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-285) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Jim Thatcher, Andrew Shears, and Josef Eckert -- Part 1. What is big data and what does it mean to study it?. Toward critical data studies : charting and unpacking data assemblages and their work / Rob Kitchin and Tracey P. Lauriault -- Big data...why (oh why?) this computational social science? / David O'Sullivan -- Part 2. Methods and praxis in big data research. Smaller and slower data in an era of big data / Renee Sieber and Matthew Tenney -- Reflexivity, positionality, and rigor in the context of big data research / Britta Ricker -- Part 3. Empirical interventions. A hybrid approach to geotweets : reading and mapping tweet contexts on marijuana legalization and same-sex marriage in Seattle, Washington / Jin-Kyu Jung and Jungyeop Shin -- Geosocial footprints and geoprivacy concerns / Christopher D. Weidemann, Jennifer N. Swift, and Karen K. Kemp -- Foursquare in the City of Fountains : using Kansas City as a case study for combining demographic and social media data / Emily Fekete -- Part 4. Urban big data : urban-centric and uneven. Big city, big data : four vignettes / Jessa Lingel -- Framing digital exclusion in technologically mediated urban spaces / Matthew Kelley -- Part 5. Talking across borders. Bringing the big data of climate change down to human scale : citizen sensors and personalized visualizations in climate communication / David Retchless -- Synergizing Geoweb and digital humanitarian research / Ryan Burns -- Part 6. Conclusions. Rethinking the Geoweb and big data : future research directions / Mark Graham.
Call Number
JFE 18-3328
ISBN
  • 9780803278820
  • 0803278829
  • 9781496204981
  • 1496204980
LCCN
2017026971
OCLC
1008772888
Title
Thinking big data in geography : new regimes, new research / edited and with an introduction by Jim Thatcher, Josef Eckert, and Andrew Shears.
Publisher
Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-285) and index.
Added Author
Thatcher, Jim, 1980- editor.
Eckert, Josef, editor.
Shears, Andrew, editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 18-3328
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