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Can Strava be said to produce ‘objective truth’ from ‘raw data’?

Can Strava be said to produce ‘objective truth’ from ‘raw data’?

In this commentary I tie main points from the introductory chapter, written by Gitelman and Jackson, of the book “Raw Data is an Oxymoron” (Gitelman), with data produced by the application Strava as an object of self-quantification to critique...
By Martin Trans on 10/01/21 Comments Off on Can Strava be said to produce ‘objective truth’ from ‘raw data’?
Video Assisted Refereeing in Football: The False Idol of Mechanical Objectivity

Video Assisted Refereeing in Football: The False Idol of Mechanical Objectivity

 “When phenomena are variously reduced to data, they are divided and classified, processes that work to obscure — or as if to obscure — ambiguity, conflict, and contradiction.” – Lisa Gitelman Finally, the pseudo-objectivist logic of Big Data has...
By on 09/23/19 Comments Off on Video Assisted Refereeing in Football: The False Idol of Mechanical Objectivity

Wikipedia: on the Value of Information and the Concept of Censorship

It’s a fact that people more and more gather information from the internet and other digital sources instead of learning -to master- that information. What will be the long term effects of this development? Does the posibility to search...
By Charlotte van Brakel on 09/20/09 Comments Off on Wikipedia: on the Value of Information and the Concept of Censorship