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Big Data Literacy: A New Dimension of Digital Divide, Barriers in Learning via Exploring “Big Data”

Big Data Literacy: A New Dimension of Digital Divide, Barriers in Learning via Exploring “Big Data”
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Author(s): Dimitar Christozov (American University in Bulgaria, Bulgaria)and Stefka Toleva-Stoimenova (State University of Library Studies and Information Technology, Bulgaria)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 16
Source title: Big Data: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9840-6.ch104

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Abstract

The chapter addresses the problems of digital divide in the light of learning from data in the era of accumulated, available, and accessible Big Data. The phenomenon of Big Data arose in the last years and offered new dimensions of digital divide: the challenge that the human society faces since the appearance of computer technology. Objectives of this chapter are to highlight problems and barriers in learning from Big Data and to initiate discussion on the ways to overcome those new challenges. The chapter tries to define the “Big Data Phenomenon,” to identify the phases and activities in the process of learning from data, and to relate them to learning from Big Data. As a result, a paradigm of competences and barriers for acquiring Big Data literacy are proposed as a new dimension of literacy in dividing the human society.

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