Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data (Hardcover)

Notes on Contributors Introduction Ganaele Langlois, York University; Joanna Redden, University of Calgary and Greg Elmer, Ryerson University, Canada Part 1: Data, Power and Politics Big Data as System of Knowledge: Investigating Canadian Governance Joanna Redden, University of Calgary, Canada Data Mining Research and the Disintegration of Society: the "Project X" Haren Riots Ingrid M. Hoofd, National University of Singapore, Singapore Look at the Man Behind the Curtain: Computational Management in "Spontaneous" Citizen Political Campaigning David Karpf, George Washington University, USA Part 2: Data Limit(ed) Easy Data, Hard Data: The politics and pragmatics of Twitter research after the computational turn Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Scraping the First Person Greg Elmer, Ryerson University, Canada Open Data and its Enemies? Digital Methods and Compromised Data Fenwick McKelvey, Concordia University, Canada Critical Reverse Engineering: The Case of Twitter and TalkOpen Robert Gehl, University of Utah, USA Part 3. Alt-Data Mapping Movements - Social Movement Research and Big Data: Critiques and Alternatives Sky Croeser and Tim Highfield, Curtin University, Australia Data Activism Alessandra Renzi, Northeastern University, USA, and Ganaele Langlois, York University, Canada A Contribution to the Political Economy of Personal Archives Yuk Hui, Leuphana University, Germany The Haunted Life of Data Lisa Blackman, Goldsmiths University, UK Index