This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic contemporary overview of the field of critical data studies that reflects on practices of digital data collection and analysis. The book assesses in detail one big data research area: biomedical studies, focused on epidemiological surveillance. Specific case studies explore how big data have been used in academic work.

The Big Data Agenda concludes that the use of big data in research urgently needs to be considered from the vantage point of ethics and social justice. Drawing upon discourse ethics and critical data studies, Richterich argues that entanglements between big data research and technology/ internet corporations have emerged. In consequence, more opportunities for discussing and negotiating emerging research practices and their implications for societal values are needed.

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本书强调，收集、分析和利用大量数字（用户）数据的能力引发了重大的伦理问题。安妮卡-里希特里奇（Annika Richterich）对关键数据研究领域进行了系统的当代概述，反映了数字数据收集和分析的实践。本书详细评估了一个大数据研究领域：生物医学研究，重点是流行病学监测。具体的案例研究探讨了大数据在学术工作中的应用情况。

大数据议程》的结论是，在研究中使用大数据迫切需要从伦理学和社会正义的角度来考虑。Richterich借鉴话语伦理学和批判性数据研究，认为大数据研究与技术/互联网公司之间已经出现了纠葛。因此，需要有更多的机会来讨论和协商新兴的研究实践及其对社会价值的影响。

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