Known or knowing publics? Social media data mining and the question of public agency

New methods to analyse social media data provide a powerful way to know publics and capture what they say and do. At the same time, access to these methods is uneven, with corporations and governments tending to have best access to relevant data and analytics tools. Critics raise a number of concern...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Helen Kennedy, Giles Moss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-10-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715611145