Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry) / quote 9 of 16

Databases are not necessarily more objective than arguments

As Leigh Starr and Geoffrey Bowker have persuasively argued, the ordering of information is never neutral or value-free. Databases are not necessarily more objective than arguments, but they are different kinds of cultural forms, embodying different cognitive, technical, psychological, and artistic modalities and offering different ways to instantiate concepts, structure experience, and embody values (Manovich 2002; Vesna 2007).

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