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Compromised data. From social media to big data. Greg Elmer; Ganaele Langlois; Joanna Redden.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury Academic 2015.Description: 224 pISBN:
  • 9781501306501
  • 1501306502
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4833 LAN
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.
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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

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.

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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Notes on Contributors (p. vii)
  • 1 Introduction: Compromised Data-From Social Media to Big Data (p. 1)
  • Part 1 Data, Power, and Politics (p. 15)
  • 2 Big Data as System of Knowledge: Investigating Canadian Governance (p. 17)
  • 3 Data Mining Research and the Disintegration of Society: The "Project X" Haren Riots (p. 40)
  • 4 Look at the Man Behind the Curtain: Computational Management in "Spontaneous" Citizen Political Campaigning (p. 61)
  • Part 2 Data Limit(ed) (p. 91)
  • 5 Easy Data, Hard Data: The Politics and Pragmatics of Twitter Research After the Computational Turn (p. 93)
  • 6 Scraping the First Person (p. 112)
  • 7 Openness Compromised? Questioning the Role of Openness in Digital Methods and Contemporary Critical (p. 126)
  • 8 Critical Reverse Engineering: The Case of Twitter and Talk Open (p. 147)
  • Part 3 Alt-Data (p. 171)
  • 9 Mapping Movements-Social Movement Research and Big Data: Critiques and Alternatives (p. 173)
  • 10 Data Activism (p. 202)
  • 11 A Contribution to the Political Economy of Personal Archives (p. 226)
  • 12 The Hunted Life of Data (p. 247)
  • Index (p. 273)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Ganaele Langlois is Assistant Professor at York University, Canada, and Associate Director at the Infoscape Centre for the Study of Social Media at Ryerson University, Canada.
Joanna Redden is Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Greg Elmer is Bell Globemedia Research Chair and Director of the Infoscape Centre for the Study of Social Media at Ryerson University, Canada.

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