Haunted Data Affect, Transmedia, Weird science

"Haunted Data explores the concepts that are at work in our complex relationships with data. Our engagement with data - big or small - is never as simplistic or straightforward as might first appear. Indeed, Blackman argues that our relationship with data is haunted with errors, dead ends, ghos...

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Main Author: Blackman, Lisa 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK Bloomsbury Academic 2019
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