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Towards Area-Smart Data Science: Critical Questions for Working with Big Data from China

  • 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 territorial‐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.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Daniela StockmannORCiD
Parent Title (English):Policy and Internet
Publication year:2018
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:393
Last Page:414
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.192
Release Date:2019/02/07
Tag:Big Data; China
Issue:10(4)
Hertie School Research:Centre for Digital Governance
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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