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New games, new rules, new scoreboards: the potential consequences of big data

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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under award #1348929, M. Lynne Markus, Principal Investigator. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, not of the NSF.

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Markus, M. New games, new rules, new scoreboards: the potential consequences of big data. J Inf Technol 30, 58–59 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1057/jit.2014.28

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