The Politics of Big Data Assemblages
<span class="abs_content">One way to study the politics of big data is the inspection of their assemblages. By opening up the “black boxes” of data assemblages, it is possible to reconstruct the choices, compromises, conflicts and agree-ments that contributed to the construction of a...
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| description | <span class="abs_content">One way to study the politics of big data is the inspection of their assemblages. By opening up the “black boxes” of data assemblages, it is possible to reconstruct the choices, compromises, conflicts and agree-ments that contributed to the construction of a given datum. Leaning on in-depth interviews and focus groups with experts and specialists who work within three European data centers, we unveil the interde-pendence between social and technical aspects and between a series of internal and external actors, which all contribute to the data assemblage. Results show that communities of experts, technologies, stakeholders and end-users are entwined components that interact amongst them in a contingent and complex web of negotiations and constraints and frame what is possible, desirable and expected by data.</span><br /> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e05e59307a3248a7a39f74bcb12229792023-09-20T07:59:56ZengCoordinamento SIBAPartecipazione e Conflitto1972-76232035-66092018-09-0111244847110.1285/i20356609v11i2p44817842The Politics of Big Data AssemblagesBiagio Aragona0Cristiano Felaco1Marina Marino2University of Naples Federico IIUniversity of Naples Federico IIUniversity of Naples Federico II<span class="abs_content">One way to study the politics of big data is the inspection of their assemblages. By opening up the “black boxes” of data assemblages, it is possible to reconstruct the choices, compromises, conflicts and agree-ments that contributed to the construction of a given datum. Leaning on in-depth interviews and focus groups with experts and specialists who work within three European data centers, we unveil the interde-pendence between social and technical aspects and between a series of internal and external actors, which all contribute to the data assemblage. Results show that communities of experts, technologies, stakeholders and end-users are entwined components that interact amongst them in a contingent and complex web of negotiations and constraints and frame what is possible, desirable and expected by data.</span><br />http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/19550data assemblagebig datasymbolic powerqualitative interviewsdata centers |
| spellingShingle | Biagio Aragona Cristiano Felaco Marina Marino The Politics of Big Data Assemblages Partecipazione e Conflitto data assemblage big data symbolic power qualitative interviews data centers |
| title | The Politics of Big Data Assemblages |
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| topic | data assemblage big data symbolic power qualitative interviews data centers |
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