Newly published – The Politics of Big Data

27 April 2018

Ingrid Schneider is one of the editors of „ The Politics of Big Data - Big Data, Big Brother?”. The book was recently published by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

Link to publishers webpage of the book

Content

 1 The politics of Big Data: principles, policies, practices 1

Ann Rudinow Sætnan , Ingrid Schneider , and Nicola Green

 

PART I

Principles and paradigms: questioning the tenets of Big Data 19

2 The haystack fallacy, or why Big Data provides little security 21

Ann Rudinow Sætnan

3 Grasping the ethics and politics of algorithms 39

Tobias Matzner

4 Big Data – within the tides of securitisation? 46

Stefan Strauß

5 Surveillance as a critical paradigm for Big Data? 68

Tobias Matzner

 

PART II

Big Data policies: politics of governance and regulation 87

6 Tracing Big Data imaginaries through public policy: the case of the European Commission 89

Gernot Rieder

7 The automated public sphere 110

Frank Pasquale

8 Bringing the state back in: Big Data-based capitalism, disruption, and novel regulatory approaches in Europe 129

Ingrid Schneider

9 Rear window – transparent citizens versus political participation 176

Maria João Simões and Nuno Amaral Jerónimo

10 Fading dots, disappearing lines – surveillance and Big Data in news media after the Snowden revelations 197

Gunhild Tøndel and Ann Rudinow Sætnan

 

PART III

Performance is political: Big Data practices, performance, and resistance 225

11 No (Big) Data, no fiction? Thinking surveillance with/ against Netflix 227

Rocco Bellano va and Gloria González Fuster

12 ‘Data trainings’ in German schools – learning empowerment from hackers 247

Julia Fleischhack

13 Self-protection beyond the self: collective privacy practices in (Big) datascapes 265

Carsten Ochs

14 Understanding the ‘open’ in making research data open: policy rhetoric and research practice 292

Merel Noorman , Bridgette Wessels, Thordis Sveinsdottir , and Sally Wyatt

 

Part IV

Postscript 319

15 Big Data’s methodological challenges 321

Nicola Green

Index 331

Ingrid Schneider is also co-author of the book "Big Data und Gesellschaft, Eine multidisziplinäre Annäherung" (Big Data and society - a multidisciplinary approach) by B. Kolany-Reiser et al. (eds.), 430 pages, Springer VS,  2018.

More information and the electronic version of the book is available at:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-658-21665-8