Data data everywhere yet no meaning to be found

About this episode

The episode explores the overwhelming presence of data in modern society and questions its meaningfulness.

It seems these days that we are awash in data. Indeed, in their recent book The Ordinal Society, Marion Foucard and Kieran Healy argue persuasively that the passive data collection facilitated by the internet, digital technologies, wearables, and social media allows us for the first time to map the deep substrate of the social. Is that true though? In all this data, is there signal? Valeria Ramirez from Cambridge University has made a career out of tracking the advent of digital metrics and t...

People in this episode

Host: Mark Fabian

Guest: Valeria Ramirez

Topics covered

• data analysis
• digital metrics
• social media
• internet technology
• society

Keywords

• data
• digital metrics
• social media
• internet
• society
• analysis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cambridge University

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