Big Data, new epistemologies and paradigm shifts
@article{Kitchin2014BigDN,
title={Big Data, new epistemologies and paradigm shifts},
author={R. Kitchin},
journal={Big Data & Society},
year={2014},
volume={1}
}This article examines how the availability of Big Data, coupled with new data analytics, challenges established epistemologies across the sciences, social sciences and humanities, and assesses the extent to which they are engendering paradigm shifts across multiple disciplines. In particular, it critically explores new forms of empiricism that declare ‘the end of theory’, the creation of data-driven rather than knowledge-driven science, and the development of digital humanities and… CONTINUE READING
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