Compromised data : from social media to big data / edited by Ganaele Langlois, Joanna Redden and Greg Elmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elmer, Greg, 1967- editor.

Langlois, Ganaele, editor.

Redden, Joanna, 1975- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Big data.

Data mining--Social aspects.

Data mining.

Online social networks.

Social media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc., [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There has been a data rush in the past decade brought about by online communication and, in particular, social media (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, among others), which promises a new age of digital enlightenment. But social data is compromised: it is being seized by specific economic interests, it leads to a fundamental shift in the relationship between research and the public good, and it fosters new forms of control and surveillance. Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data explores how we perform critical research within a compromised social data framework. The expert, international lineup of contributors explores the limits and challenges of social data research in order to invent and develop new modes of doing public research. At its core, this collection argues that we are witnessing a fundamental reshaping of the social through social data mining

Contents:

Big Data as System of Knowledge : Investigating Canadian Governance

Joanna Redden

Data Mining Research and the Disintegration of Society : the "Project X"

Haren Riots Ingrid M. Hoofd

Look at the Man Behind the Curtain : Computational Management in "Spontaneous" Citizen Political Campaigning

David Karpf

Easy Data, Hard Data : The politics and pragmatics of Twitter research after the computational turn

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess

Scraping the First Person

Greg Elmer

Open Data and its Enemies? : Digital Methods and Compromised Data

Fenwick McKelvey

Critical Reverse Engineering : The Case of Twitter and TalkOpen

Robert Gehl

Mapping Movements, Social Movement Research and Big Data : Critiques and Alternatives

Sky Croeser and Tim Highfield

Data Activism

Alessandra Renzi and Ganaele Langlois

A Contribution to the Political Economy of Personal Archives

Yuk Hui

The Haunted Life of Data

Lisa Blackman.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501306549

1501306545

9781501306525

1501306529

OCLC:

912277790