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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136271803321

Autore

Burkhardt Marcus

Titolo

Digitale Datenbanken [[electronic resource] ] : eine Medientheorie im Zeitalter von Big Data / / Marcus Burkhardt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Germany : , : transcript Verlag, , 2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 pages) : illustrations, charts

Soggetti

Databases

Information technology - Social aspects

Internet

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

We no longer live only in the information age, but in the era of big data. In this database, the database also stands for the huge knowledge potential of information collections as well as for the threatening information excesses of digital media culture. The term also refers to specific technologies and processes for collecting and providing digital information. Between these very different views it is important to locate databases in terms of media theory. Marcus Burkhardt traces the history of the databases and asks how technical processes of managing digital information require, what can be found in databases and how they can be known.