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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/
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Si me lo permiten, me parece que desde el campo que recorro, los estudios y teorías de medios en su vertiente alemana, es posible problematizar parte del acontecer y discusiones sobre la crisis en Chile:

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#ChileResiste #MediaTheory #Archaeology
Por una parte, cuando políticos y empresarios señalan que la solución debe tan sólo abordar "los problemas reales de la gente", lo que se saltan, es que los problemas de todos --nuestra condición--, circula/n tanto en el espacio de 'lo real' como en el de 'lo imaginario'.

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Ahora bien, tales espacios son siempre mediados por 'lo simbólico', y esto indica la clave del asunto --en su teoría y praxis.

Entonces, entendiendo 'lo simbólico', a grosso modo, de dos formas, digamos que ello corresponde a 1) los textos y 2) sistemas de símbolos.

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