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Cell Phones ≠ Self and Other Problems with Big Data Detection and Containment during Epidemics

Susan L. Erikson

NCBI

Resumo

Big data was hyped as useful for stopping the disease by tracking contagious people. It did not work, as the author analyzes in this article, arguing that anthropological method, data, and knowledge should be privileged as anticipatory technologies of the first instance.