Compromised data
Subtitle: from social media to big data
By: edited by Ganaele Langlois, Joanna Redden and Greg Elmer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781501306501; 9781501306518
Subjects: Social aspects; Social media; Online social networks; Big data; Data mining
Description: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Big Data as System of Knowledge : Investigating Canadian Governance / Joanna Redden; title: Data Mining Research and the Disintegration of Society : the "Project X" Haren Riots / Ingrid Hoofd; title: Look at the Man Behind the Curtain : Computational Management in "Spontaneous" Citizen Political Campaigning / David Karpf; title: Easy Data, Hard Data : The politics and pragmatics of Twitter research after the computational turn / Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns; title: Scraping the First Person / Greg Elmer; title: Openness Compromised? : Questioning the Role in Digital Methods and Comtemporary Critical Praxis / Fenwick McKelvey; title: Critical Reverse Engineering : The Case of Twitter and TalkOpen / Robert Gehl; title: Mapping Movements, Social Movement Research and Big Data : Critiques and Alternatives / Sky Croeser and Tim Highfield; title: Data Activism / Alessandra Renzi and Ganaele Langlois; title: A Contribution to the Political Economy of Personal Archives / Yuk Hui; title: The Haunted Life of Data / Lisa Blackman.