Of dog kennels, magnets, and hard drives: Dealing with Big Data peripheries

How did the 3.5-inch Winchester hard disk drive become the fundamental building block of the modern data center? In attempting to answer this question, I theorize the concept of "data peripheries" to attend to the awkward, uneven, and unintended outsides of data infrastructures. I explore...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zane Griffin Talley Cooper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-08-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211015430