The datafied society

Optimistic reporting about ‘big data' has made it easy to forget that datadriven practices have been part of the emerging information society since
the nineteenth century (Beniger 1989; Porter 1996; Campbell-Kelly 2003).
In lieu of an illustrative metaphor, the label ‘big data' is used to describe
a set of practices involving the collection, processing and analysis of large
data sets. The term enables members of the general public to engage in
debates, albeit often uninformed, on the ongoing transformation of our
knowledge economy, but it disguises more than it reveals.
[Amsterdam: 2017]

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