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My gist was that the author wants the data vacuumed up by big tech to be used to continue analyzing the questions posed by social science, why do we have inequa
by wsintra2022 3y ago
My gist was that the author wants the data vacuumed up by big tech to be used to continue analyzing the questions posed by social science, why do we have inequalities, why do we have class division, that sort of thing.
- galangalalgol 3y agoI already felt the name of the field was terrifying, conjuring up thoughts of famines and quotas for workers with some arbitrary trait the network hallucinated. If we bring big corp into it, it gets so much more scary.
- noelwelsh 3y agoNo, that's not it. It's about using computational techniques to address questions of social science. Using big tech data is not a goal, but it will sometimes be a source of data.