A RE-emphasis on Context: Preserving and Analyzing Podcast Metadata

While digital humanities scholars have expressed a growing interest in big data analysis, the efficacy of big data research is contentious, with scholars like danah boyd, Kate Crawford, and Lisa Gitelman critiquing the research methodologies of big data and its claims of invalidating the necessity for theory and ideas of historical causality (boyd and Crawford 2012, 666). In particular, scholars are increasingly critical about the general discourse surrounding big data, which implies that the more data we have, the better one can achieve accurate and objective claims (Crawford et al 2014). Gitelman debunks the idea that data ever arrives “raw”