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datafication: a standalone construct

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Media studies

turning social action into quantified data that can be tracked and analyzed.

In media studies, datafication refers to turning social action into quantified data that can be tracked and analyzed. This meaning comes from Van Dijck (2014) in Surveillance & Society.[1]

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References

Van Dijck, J. (2014). Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology. Surveillance & Society, 12(2), 197-208. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v12i2.4776

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