First Monday October 2013

Readers:

First Monday has just published the October 2013 (volume 18, number 10)
issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current. This issue is a special
issue, entitled "Making data – Big data and beyond".

The following papers are included in this special issue:

First Monday
Volume 18, number 10 - 7 October 2013

Introduction to the special issue ‘Making data – Big data and beyond’
by Rasmus Helles and Klaus Bruhn Jensen

Making big data, in theory
by Tom Boellstorff

Undermining ‘data’:  A critical examination of a core term in scientific
inquiry
by Annette N. Markham

How to do things with data: Meta-data, meta-media, and meta-communication
by Klaus Bruhn Jensen

Data not seen: The uses and shortcomings of social media metrics
by Nancy K. Baym

The big head and the long tail: An illustration of explanatory strategies
for big data Internet studies
by Rasmus Helles

Home made big data? Challenges and opportunities for participatory social
research
by Alexander Halavais

A critical reflection on Big Data: Considering APIs, researchers and tools
as data makers
by Farida Vis

Faster than the speed of print: Reconciling ‘big data’ social media
analysis and academic scholarship
by Axel Bruns

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With the contents of the October 2013 issue, First Monday has published,
since May 1996, 1,309 papers in 209 issues, written by 1,768 different
authors.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday