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A hair-splitting remark on the term "data." @RobKitchin observes in "Data revolution" that "data" should really be called "capta," to emphasise data is taken, not given (see attached text). Great point, but it risks obscuring an ethical concern 1/8 #DataStudies #MediaTheory 
Kitchin's brilliant parsing is adapted to founding a particular critical and empirical field of data studies, around the oceans of data all around us. If you want a really robust entry to critical data studies, you can't do better. Yet data as "given" offers its own insights 2/
My point of departure is Mauss and Lévi-Strauss, whose accounts of gift (don) develop against the backdrop of data (donées) increasingly common in 20th c. anthropology and technocracy; their key works make this comparison explicit (MM's The Gift; CLS's Savage Mind) 3/
