[ecrea] New book: Post, Mine, Repeat: social media data mining becomes ordinary by Helen Kennedy

My  new book, /Post, Mine, Repeat:/ /social media data mining becomes 
ordinary,/is out with Palgrave Macmillan: 
http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9781137353979 (eBook 16^th May, hardback 
30^th May). Blurb, table of contents, endorsements & discount code below.

*BLURB*

In /Post, Mine, Repeat: //social media data mining becomes ordinary/, 
Helen Kennedy argues that as social media data mining becomes more and 
more ordinary, as we post, mine and repeat, new data relations emerge. 
These new data relations are characterised by a widespread desire for 
numbers and its troubling consequences, but also by the possibility of 
doing good with data and resisting data power, by new and old concerns, 
and by instability and contradiction. Drawing on action research with 
public sector organisations, interviews with commercial social insights 
companies and their clients, focus groups with social media users and 
other research, Kennedy provides a fascinating and detailed account of 
living with social media data mining inside the organisations that make 
up the fabric of everyday life.

*TABLE OF CONTENTS*

   * Chapter 1: Social media data mining becomes ordinary
   * Chapter 2: Why study social media data mining?
   * Chapter 3: What should concern us about social media data mining?
     Key debates
   * Chapter 4: Public sector experiments with social media data mining
   * Chapter 5: Commercial mediations of social media data
   * Chapter 6: What happens to mined social media data?
   * Chapter 7: Fair game? User evaluations of social media data mining
   * Chapter 8: Doing good with data: alternative practices, elephants in
     rooms
   * Chapter 9: New data relations and the desire for numbers

*ENDORSEMENTS*

/‘Post, Mine, Repeat/is a genuinely ground-breaking and original piece 
of work, in which Helen Kennedy shares a range of important and 
revealing empirical insights into the practices of data mining. To my 
knowledge, no-one before has managed to produce such detailed research 
into data mining. The book shows how data mining fits into commercial 
monitoring, into organisations, into activism and into public sector 
services, how these are changing, and exactly what part data mining 
plays in empowerment and resistance, as well as surveillance and 
control. It is accessible, yet it tells some complex stories. This 
really is a tremendous, agenda-setting piece of work.' /Dr David Beer, 
University of York/

'Helen Kennedy has written an enlightening, informative and utterly 
convincing book. The focus of /Post, Mine, Repeat/ on "ordinary" uses of 
data mining is a hugely welcome and much-needed contribution to debates 
about the role of big data in society. I’m so glad that Kennedy’s sane, 
measured, thoughtful, careful, eloquent, ethical voice is there in these 
debates, for me to cite, recommend and go back to for guidance whenever 
I get into arguments on the vitally important topics she covers.' 
/Professor David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds/

'This is a much-needed study on the importance of data mining to workers 
in ordinary organisations and more generally in society. What sets this 
book apart from other academic studies is its empirical focus: through 
interviews with users, professional data miners and key agents in 
organisations, Helen Kennedy tackles the larger issues involved in data 
mining and renders them concrete. The book is clearly focused and 
persuasively argued, a must-read for anyone who wants to understand what 
happens next in the world of Big Data.' /Professor José van Dijck, 
University of Amsterdam/

*DISCOUNT CODE*

30% discount with code PM16THIRTY for orders placed by individuals, 
directly with Palgrave Macmillan, up to 30^th June. **





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Professor Helen Kennedy
Department of Sociological Studies / Faculty of Social Sciences
Elmfield, Northumberland Road
Sheffield S10 2TU
E: (h.kennedy /at/ sheffield.ac.uk) <mailto:(h.kennedy /at/ sheffield.ac.uk)>
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