Deconstructing the cloud: Responses to Big Data phenomena from social sciences, humanities and the arts

The era of Big Data comes with the omnipresent metaphor of the Cloud, a term suggesting an ephemeral and seemingly endless storage space, unhindered by time and place. Similar to the satellite image of the Whole Earth, which was the icon of technological progress in the late 60s, the Cloud as a meta...

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Main Authors:	Sabine Niederer, Raymond Taudin Chabot
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	SAGE Publishing 2015-07-01
Series:	Big Data & Society
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715594635

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spelling	doaj-b2f683a16f05425a9fd5bfd2d9fd7f562020-11-25T03:11:10ZengSAGE PublishingBig Data & Society2053-95172015-07-01210.1177/205395171559463510.1177_2053951715594635Deconstructing the cloud: Responses to Big Data phenomena from social sciences, humanities and the artsSabine NiedererRaymond Taudin ChabotThe era of Big Data comes with the omnipresent metaphor of the Cloud, a term suggesting an ephemeral and seemingly endless storage space, unhindered by time and place. Similar to the satellite image of the Whole Earth, which was the icon of technological progress in the late 60s, the Cloud as a metaphor breathes the promise of technology, whilst obfuscating the hardware reality of server farms and software infrastructure necessary to enable the proliferation of (big) data. This article presents projects from the fields of humanities, social sciences and the arts that formulate a response to Big Data and its human and automated practices, from data analytics dashboards to critical reflections on smart technologies and objects.https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715594635
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Deconstructing the cloud: Responses to Big Data phenomena from social sciences, humanities and the arts

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