Surveillance-democracy

Couldry, Nick ORCID: 0000-0001-8233-3287 (2017) Surveillance-democracy. Journal of Information Technology and Politics. ISSN 1933-1681

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No one disputes that the collection of ‘Big Data’ holds the promise of interesting, even radically new, discoveries. But any critical social science of Big Data must take account of the broad transformations in communication and social organization that have generated the situation where Big Data is standardly available not just to corporations and states, but to researchers too. What if those transformations are potentially inimical, at some deeper level, to the very goals (for example, the sustaining of democratic politics) that may motivate much of our research in the first place? This short article seeks to raise some pertinent questions along these lines.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/witp20/current
Additional Information:	© 2017 Taylor & Francis
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	20 Mar 2017 14:16
Last Modified:	15 Apr 2024 22:18
Funders:	University of Chicago, John Templeton Foundation
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/69873

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