#Knowledge first or #belief first #epistemology? Or even data first if you fall foul of #dataism. Data is a mechanism in the process.

What’s if neither knowledge or data is ‘first’? What if knowing is built on #value and #values instead?

Values -> value -> knowledge -> belief
(If you want an order).

I got here by way of #SystemsTheory rather than purely traditional routes.

Data centers draining resources in water-stressed communities

https://utulsa.edu/news/data-centers-draining-resources-in-water-stressed-communities/

This 2022 post relating #dataism and #universityrankings to the #mentalhealth of students and teaching staff is well worth a reread. https://openpresstiu.pubpub.org/pub/being-a-good-university-in-times-of-dataism/release/1. Need to explore the recent (empirical) research on the topic.

Looking forward to #ISA in Montreal next week. With @bhaggart we'll be presenting on #dataism, #smartcities & Google's failed smart city project in Toronto as a case of private infrastructure. The paper is based on our forthcoming book (open access!): The new knowledge: information, data & the remaking of global power (Rowman & Littlefield). Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new connections!
#data #platform #internet #digital #technology

"#ChatGPT’s designers could have aimed to create a tool with a regard for verified truth, or at least judged their progress by whether that is possible. But such a goal, which would have required privileging scientific, subject expert judgment, goes against the hard core of #dataism, where truth is determined by mere correlation."

https://www.cigionline.org/articles/chatgpt-strikes-at-the-heart-of-the-scientific-world-view/

everyone wants to protect their data as an asset from several threats, but only few people really know what data they have and its true value to use it properly.

The "Dataism" is imperative now as the greater good of all, but it shouldn't be the main goal of life.

#Dataism #BigData #Data #Tech.