"Raw Data" is an Oxymoron (Infrastructures) - Softcover

Gitelman, Lisa; Jackson, Virginia; Rosenberg, Daniel; Williams, Travis D.; Brine, Kevin R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262518287 ISBN 13: 9780262518284

Publisher: MIT Press, 2013

Synopsis

Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable "dataveillance," that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture.

About this title

About the Authors

Lisa Gitelman is Professor of English and Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the coeditor of New Media, 1710–1915 (2003) and author of Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture (2006), both published by the MIT Press.

Markus Krajewski is Associate Professor of Media History at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. He is a developer of the bibliographic software Synapsen: A Hypertextual Card Index (www.verzetteln.de/synapsen)

Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor and Director of the Evoke Lab at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor (with Susan Leigh Star) of Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences and the author of Memory Practices in the Sciences, both published by the MIT Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262518287
• ISBN 13: 9780262518284
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208