TY - JOUR A1 - Stockmann, Daniela T1 - Towards Area-Smart Data Science: Critical Questions for Working with Big Data from China JF - Policy and Internet N2 - While the Internet was created without much governmental oversight, states have gradually drawn territorial borders via Internet governance. China stands out as a promoter of such a territorialā€based approach. China's separate Web infrastructure shapes data when information technologies capture traces of human behavior. As a result, area expertise can contribute to the substantive, methodological, and ethical debates surrounding big data. This article discusses how a number of critical questions that have been raised about big data more generally apply to the Chinese context: How does big data change our understanding of China? What are the limitations of big data from China? What is the context in which big data is generated in China? Who has access to big data and who knows the tools? How can big data from China be used in an ethical way? These questions are intended to spark conversations about best practices for collaboration between data scientists and China experts. KW - China KW - Big Data Y1 - 2018 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2765 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.192 IS - 10(4) SP - 393 EP - 414 ER -