{"id":23650,"date":"2020-07-30T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/?p=23650"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:09:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:09:46","slug":"is-data-the-new-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/2020\/07\/30\/fellow\/is-data-the-new-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Data the New Gas?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;In 2017,\u00a0<em>The Economist<\/em>\u00a0famously claimed that \u201cdata is the new oil.\u201d At the time, Wendy Chun\u2019s response to this statement was: \u201cBig data is the new COAL. The result: global social change. Intensely energized and unstable clouds.\u201d<span id=\"footnote-12-reference\" class=\"footnote-reference\" data-index=\"12\">12<\/span> Still, both coal and oil are likely to decline as energy sources. Another question worth asking, then, is: what if data is actually the new gas?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the whole text by our BAK 2019\/2020 Fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/person\/oleksiy-radynski\/\">Oleksiy Radynski<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-flux.com\/journal\/107\/322782\/is-data-the-new-gas\/\">click here<\/a>..\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 2017,\u00a0The Economist\u00a0famously claimed that \u201cdata is the new oil.\u201d At the time, Wendy Chun\u2019s response to this statement was: \u201cBig data is the new COAL. The result: global social change. Intensely energized and unstable clouds.\u201d12 Still, both coal and oil are likely to decline as energy sources. Another question worth asking, then, is: what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":26714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[68,237,126],"fellowship":[133],"class_list":["post-23650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fellowship","tag-activism","tag-e-flux","tag-fellows","fellowship-2019-2020"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26716,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23650\/revisions\/26716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23650"},{"taxonomy":"fellowship","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fellowship?post=23650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}