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Full Title
SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE
Publisher
FrancoAngeli
ISSN
1121-1148 (Printed Journal)
1971-8446 (Online Journal)
Journal Issue Number
109
Journal Issue Designation
109
Journal Issue Date (YYYY/MM)
2016/06
Full Title
Il rischio della datafrenia nell'analisi dei big data. Appunti a partire dal caso «Mafia capitale»
By (author)
First Page
83
Last Page
101
Language of text
Italian
Publication Date
2016/06
Copyright
2016 FrancoAngeli srl
Introduction or preface
This paper begins with an analysis of the diffusion on Twitter of news on an investigation that led to the discovery of the criminal system called «Mafia capitale». It then shows how a strictly computational approach is unable to investigate the factors at play in a media phenomenon, which are halfway between the typical processes of mass communication and those of interpersonal communication. The paper argues that the analysis of Big Data opens significant opportunities for the social scientist, as long as the sociological imagination is maintained and does not fall into an approach dictated by quantophrenia, which we may now call dataphrenia.
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