Raw Data Is an Oxymoron (Infrastructures)
In Raw Data Is an Oxymoron, Lisa Gitelman edits a compelling exploration of data's constructed nature. Part of the Infrastructures series, it reveals how data emerges from cultural, historical, and technical contexts, challenging its perceived neutrality. This collection of essays prompts a deeper understanding of information's role in society.
About This Book
Raw Data Is an Oxymoron, part of the Infrastructures series, examines the concept of data through a critical lens. Edited by Lisa Gitelman, it brings together essays that interrogate the assumptions underlying data practices.
The book highlights how data is not raw but constructed, influenced by the tools, methods, and contexts of its creation. It delves into the infrastructures that support data production and circulation.
Contributors address the paradoxes in treating data as unmediated facts, revealing the social and technical processes involved. This work invites readers to reconsider the foundations of information in modern society.
Through interdisciplinary perspectives, the volume underscores the oxymoronic nature of raw data, emphasizing its embeddedness in human systems and histories.
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