Big Data Discourses| Aesthetics of Boundless Insight: On the Scalar Ideology of the Data Imaginary
This article explores the ways in which popular cinema contributes to the data imaginary. We engage in a close reading of key data-related scenes in Minority Report (2002), Moneyball (2011), and Snowden (2016), and we examine their extensive reliance on formal means that are deeply entangled with cinema’s capacity for scalar distortion. Using critical schola
International Journal of Communication5mo ago 
