ABSTRACT
Big Data, gathered together and re-analysed, can be used to form endless variations of our persons - so-called ‘data doubles’. Whilst never a precise portrayal of who we are, they unarguably contain glimpses of details about us that, when deployed into various routines (such as management, policing and advertising) can affect us in many ways.
How are we to deal with Big Data? When is it beneficial to us? When is it harmful? How might we regulate it? Offering careful and critical analyses, this timely volume aims to broaden well-informed, unprejudiced discourse, focusing on: the tenets of Big Data, the politics of governance and regulation; and Big Data practices, performance and resistance.
An interdisciplinary volume, The Politics of Big Data will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral and senior researchers interested in fields such as Technology, Politics and Surveillance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|68 pages
Principles and paradigms
part II|138 pages
Big Data policies
chapter 6|21 pages
Tracing Big Data imaginaries through public policy
chapter 8|47 pages
Bringing the state back in
part III|94 pages
Performance is political
chapter 14|27 pages
Understanding the ‘open’ in making research data open
part IV|12 pages
Postscript