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Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject

Overview of attention for article published in Television & New Media, September 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#5 of 604)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
15 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
161 tweeters
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

dimensions_citation
429 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
632 Mendeley
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Title
Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject
Published in
Television & New Media, September 2018
DOI 10.1177/1527476418796632
Authors

Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias

Twitter Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 161 tweeters who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 632 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 632 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 119 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 105 17%
Researcher 58 9%
Student > Bachelor 38 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 32 5%
Other 114 18%
Unknown 166 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 231 37%
Arts and Humanities 73 12%
Computer Science 27 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 25 4%
Unspecified 15 2%
Other 80 13%
Unknown 181 29%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 263. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 March 2023.
All research outputs
#125,593
of 23,962,691 outputs
Outputs from Television & New Media
#5
of 604 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,692
of 338,650 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Television & New Media
#2
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,962,691 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 604 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 338,650 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 10 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 8 of them.