JAN 22 2014

Disinformatics

Big Data, Facebook, Google

New media has an obsession with the potential to divine “signals” from Big Data.   There’s an emerging belief that, contained within (an often ill-defined, haphazardly constructed, unstructured collection of information dubbed) “Big Data,” there lies (a virtual treasure trove of) signals (whose significance may lie in revealed preferences, network alliances, predictive powers, geospatial epiphanies, or…

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