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Digitale Datenbanken: Eine Medientheorie im Zeitalter von Big Data

[monograph]

Burkhardt, Marcus

Abstract

Wir leben längst nicht mehr nur im Informationszeitalter, sondern in der Ära von Big Data. In dieser steht die Datenbank gleichzeitig für die riesigen Erkenntnispotenziale von Informationssammlungen wie für die bedrohlichen Informationsexzesse der digitalen Medienkultur. Zudem bezeichnet der Begriff... view more

Wir leben längst nicht mehr nur im Informationszeitalter, sondern in der Ära von Big Data. In dieser steht die Datenbank gleichzeitig für die riesigen Erkenntnispotenziale von Informationssammlungen wie für die bedrohlichen Informationsexzesse der digitalen Medienkultur. Zudem bezeichnet der Begriff konkrete Technologien und Verfahren der Sammlung und Bereitstellung von digitalen Informationen. Zwischen diesen sehr unterschiedlichen Auffassungen gilt es, Datenbanken medientheoretisch zu verorten. Marcus Burkhardt zeichnet die Geschichte der Datenbanken nach und fragt, wie technische Verfahren der Verwaltung digitaler Informationen bedingen, was auf welche Weise in Datenbanken gefunden und durch sie gewusst werden kann.... view less


We have long moved on from a mere information age to the era of big data. Here, databases represent both the enormous potential for gaining knowledge of data collection and the alarming information excesses of digital culture. Furthermore, the term refers to concrete technologies and processes of ga... view more

We have long moved on from a mere information age to the era of big data. Here, databases represent both the enormous potential for gaining knowledge of data collection and the alarming information excesses of digital culture. Furthermore, the term refers to concrete technologies and processes of gathering and accessing digital information. Media theory has to locate databases in between these very different conceptions. Marcus Burkhardt retraces the history of databases and asks how technical procedures of processing digital information determine what can be found how in databases and what knowledge can be gained through them.... view less

Keywords
media theory; data bank; digital media; Internet; history of media; search engine; information society

Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of the Science of Communication

Free Keywords
Big Data; Computer; Database; Datenbank; Digital Media; Digitale Medien; Internet; Media; Media History; Media Studies; Media Theory; Medien; Mediengeschichte; Medientheorie; Medienwissenschaft; Search Engine; Suchmaschine

Document language
German

Publication Year
2015

Publisher
transcript Verlag

City
Bielefeld

Page/Pages
390 p.

Series
Digitale Gesellschaft, 7

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839430286

ISBN
978-3-8394-3028-6

Status
Published Version; reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0


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