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Published in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory • Dec 4, 2017
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Authors:
Emma Uprichard
,
Clare Jackson

Abstract

The word “data” originates from Latin, but its meaning has been evolving ever since. Indeed, what data are and come to be and how they are used all change according to how society itself changes. Social data are never neutral and increasingly, in an age of “big data,” they are also a highly commerci...

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