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Klaus Bruhn Jensen

Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen
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The Big Issue with Big Data: Who Do You Think I Am?

November 14, 2013 • by Klaus Bruhn Jensen

Big data is all the buzz in business and government. The assumption is that meta-data -- data about who communicates with whom, when, where, in which sequences and networks -- can generate ever more comprehensive and granular accounts of everyday life and social practices across global space and in real ...

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