Small Data Theorizing

IF 4.7 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Theory Pub Date : 2020-12-22 DOI:10.1093/ct/qtaa029

Vicki Mayer

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Abstract

Small data theorizing encompasses the ways communities of collaborators deliberate over the status of data through a set of three mediational logics that pose alternatives to datafication. Small data theorizing is a way of generalizing a framework for understanding the role of the collaborators in digital archiving and database design processes, which often involve both communication researchers and ordinary institutions, such as universities and museums. This framework for mediational logics extends the critiques of big data theory, and its monolithic claims about autonomous technologies and power in society, by elaborating the ways people actively maintain their connectedness to data in archival design. At the same time, it joins critical communication theory’s central concerns about power with a praxis. This can help all communication researchers in seeing how communities are theorizing practical alternatives to archives that are designed for big data and their ecosystems.

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小数据理论化

小数据理论化包括协作者社区通过一组三种中介逻辑来考虑数据状态的方式，这些中介逻辑提出了数据化的替代方案。小数据理论化是一种概括框架的方法，用于理解协作者在数字存档和数据库设计过程中的角色，这通常涉及通信研究人员和普通机构，如大学和博物馆。这个中介逻辑的框架扩展了对大数据理论的批评，以及它对社会中自主技术和权力的单一主张，通过详细阐述人们在档案设计中积极保持与数据联系的方式。同时，它将批判传播理论对权力的核心关注与实践结合起来。这可以帮助所有通信研究人员了解社区如何理论化为大数据及其生态系统设计的档案的实际替代方案。

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Communication Theory COMMUNICATION-

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9.00

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