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According to Mayer-Schoenberger and Cukier (2013), each single data set is likely to have some intrinsic, hidden, not yet unearthed value, and companies are engaged in a race to discover how to capture and rate this value. But as Lisa Gitelman aptly states, “raw data” is an oxymoron: __“Data are not facts, they are ‘that which is given prior to argument’ given in order to provide a rhetorical basis. Data can be good or bad, better or worse, incomplete and insufficient”__ (Gitelman 2013: 7).
Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology - 2014
José van Dijck
The church is not the Reign of God, but rather a part of it, subordinate to it. The reign deals with the divine ever becoming more historical among human beings.
Ignacio Ellacuria: Essays on History, Liberation, and Salvation
Michael E. Lee
“As a nurse, as a sister, why wouldn’t I care for someone?” she asked. “I mean, they’re sick, they’re a person, they’re a child of God. Why wouldn’t I care for them?”
Hidden Mercy
Michael J. O'Loughlin
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