[ecrea] new book - Compromised Data: From Social ,Media to Big Data

Just released from Bloomsbury Press, "Compromised Data: From Social
Media to Big Data" Ganaele Langlois, Joanna Redden & Greg Elmer (Eds.)


http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/compromised-data-9781501306525/


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.



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
/Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess, 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/

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