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Title: | Big data and us : exploring the socio-cultural relationship between self-tracking, big data, and the self | Authors: | Neo, Lucas Shao Rong | Keywords: | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social change | Issue Date: | 2015 | Abstract: | In today’s technological landscape, organizations and individuals alike are creating immense amounts of digital data daily and are seeking to derive insights from it. This project posits that self-tracking, as a social phenomenon, is surfacing concurrent to the Big Data movement and will shift the epistemology and ontology of the Self. Utilizing semi-structured interviews, 14 respondents were asked for their perceived changes in self-knowledge and their stance toward organizational Big Data. Based on the findings, the culture of objectivity is ascertained to be the social basis underlying the emphasis on data-driven decisions. As the social aspect of self-tracking was significant for the respondents, inter-subjectivity is also deemed to remain relevant in the epistemology of the Self. Lastly, instead of being active rejecters of organizational analytics, self-trackers are in dialogue with it and are adept navigators of the Big Data sphere. Observing that demographic differences in access to self-tracking do exist, the potential consequences of inequality are discussed. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62387 | Rights: | Nanyang Technological University | Fulltext Permission: | restricted | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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