dataism

English

Alternative forms

• Dataism

Etymology

data +‎ -ism

Noun

dataism (uncountable)

1. The belief that all knowledge consists of data and that scientific theories should only be the simplest systematizations of that data.
   • 1998, Mario Bunge -, Philosophy of Science: From Explanation to Justification, →ISBN, page 211:

     Dataism and dadaism are the hard core of strict empiricism, a philosophy incongruously held by many theoreticians and underlying much research planning. It encourages the blind accumulation of superficial information that leads nowhere because it comes from nowhere and takes place in a vacuum of ideas.

   • 2014, Jill W. Rettberg, Seeing Ourselves Through Technology, →ISBN:

     Dataism is becoming 'a belief in a new gold standard of knowledge about human behavior', van Dijck writes, and argues that it is crucial to be aware of the different reasons for and contexts within which data is gathered. We also need to realise that data is interpreted by analysts.

   • 2016, Holly Randell-Moon, Ryan Tippet, Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technology and Corporeality, →ISBN:

     Thus a newly formed somatechnics of the sensored body is beginning to emerge, in which everyday activities modulate in accordance with the modulations of the control society, and in which the body is produced within a security-based governmentality epitomised in the ideology of dataism.

See also

• scientism

Anagrams

• Amistad, Tsaidam