What is Data in this Brave New World?

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

During last year, there had been a whirlwind of events such as– digitalization of society be it in governance (e.g. Aadhaar) or even our daily mundane lives (e.g. cashless payments), debates surrounding net-neutrality, ransomware attacks, data breaches and numerous other privacy or surveillance issues. All of them reveal two important aspects of being linked together in a common thread. Firstly, humans are getting smarter through advanced technology, as they are living in an age of information. In this age data is not merely a piece of information, rather it is equivalent to an ‘economic good’ or ‘commodity’ and even regarded as an ‘asset.’ It consequently lends the second aspect – as for how our lives in a cyberspace are stretched, intensified and speeding up under globalization where effects over one part of the world are quite visible in another part of the world.

Object Details

• ISSN: 2381-3652
• Extent: Seite(n): 5
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: IndraStra Global, 4(3)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Naturwissenschaften ; Naturwissenschaften, Technik(wissenschaften), angewandte Wissenschaften

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Arun, P
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
• (when): 2018

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-56221-3
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST