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Data Journeys as an approach for exploring the socio-cultural shaping of (big) data: the case of climate science in the United Kingdom

Bates, Jo; Goodale, Paula; Lin, YuWei

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Title
Data Journeys as an approach for exploring the socio-cultural shaping of (big) data: the case of climate science in the United Kingdom
Author(s)
  • Bates, Jo
  • Goodale, Paula
  • Lin, YuWei
Issue Date
2015-03-15
Keyword(s)
  • social informatics
  • infrastructure studies
Date of Ingest
2015-03-23T21:58:11Z
Abstract
The paper reports on a pilot study aimed at developing a data journeys approach for critically exploring the socio-cultural shaping of interconnected data infrastructures, and presents initial findings from The Secret Life of a Weather Datum research project which applies the approach to explore the socio-cultural values and practices interacting with weather and climate data infrastructures. Through drawing on the data journeys concept to guide and inform the selection of sites for data collection, we begin to demonstrate the utility of the approach for beginning to build a picture of the “contingent and contested” (Dalton and Thatcher, 2014) relations between people, interconnected in time and space through data infrastructures, that are core to the development and shaping of climate data and knowledge. We also begin to draw out the interrelations between local and global spaces and infrastructures; and to ground amorphous ‘big’ data infrastructures in local sites and cultures of production.
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iSchools
Series/Report Name or Number
iConference 2015 Proceedings
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Conference Paper / Presentation
Language
English
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