An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering
analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.“Big Data” is …

An exploration of the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the scholarly
infrastructure needed to support research activities in all fields in the twenty-first century …

Digital technologies keep track of everything we do and say while we are online, and we
spend online an increasing portion of our time. Databases hidden behind web services and …

" Carefully distinguishing between big data and open data, and exploring various data
infrastructures, Kitchin vividly illustrates how the data landscape is rapidly changing and …

The era of Big Data has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists,
mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and other scholars are …

An examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have fundamentally
changed research practices in disciplines from astronomy to literary analysis. In Knowledge …

As more and more aspects of everyday life are turned into machine-readable data,
researchers are provided with rich resources for researching society. The novel methods …

The focus of this special issue is on Knowledge Infrastructures. We have witnessed
important changes in research and knowledge production in recent decades associated with …

" An intelligent book that struggles honestly with important questions: Is the net turning us
into passive knowers? Is it degrading our ability to reason? What can we do about this?" …

In an era of knowledge abundance, scholars have the capacity to distribute and share ideas
and artifacts via digital networks, yet networked scholarship often remains unrecognized …