TY - BOOK AU - Elmer,Greg AU - Langlois,Ganaele AU - Redden,Joanna TI - Compromised data. From social media to big data SN - 9781501306501 U1 - 303.4833 LAN PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Data mining KW - Social aspects KW - Social media KW - Online social networks KW - Internet surveillance KW - Facebook KW - Twitter KW - Youtube N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 ER -