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Big data and democracy /edited by Kevin Macnish and Jai Galliott.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 250 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474463546
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JA85 .B543 2020
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Contributors -- An Introduction to Big Data and Democracy -- PART ONE -- ONE / Big Data, Consequentialism and Privacy -- TWO / Politics, Big Data and Opacity Respect -- THREE / A Pre-Occupation with Possession: the (Non-) Ownership of Personal Data -- FOUR / Policing with Big Data: DNA Matching vs Crime Prediction -- PART TWO -- FIVE / Dark Advertising and the Democratic Process -- SIX / Twitter and Electoral Bias -- SEVEN / Gated Communities of the Digitised Mind -- EIGHT / The Network and the Demos: Big Data andthe Epistemic Justifi cations of Democracy -- PART THREE
The Technics of a Gnostic World: an Ontogeny of Big Data -- TEN / Trust and Algorithmic Opacity -- ELEVEN / Opacity, Big Data, Artifi cial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Democratic Processes -- TWELVE / The Big Data Paradox and Its Importance to Strategy and Military Systems Development -- PART FOUR -- THIRTEEN / Beyond the Concept of Anonymity: What is Really at Stake? -- FOURTEEN / Big Data Analytics and the Accessibility of Public Inquiries -- FIFTEEN / Developing an Ethical Compass for Big Data -- Index
Subject: What's wrong with targeted advertising in political campaigns? Are echo chambers a matter of genuine concern? How does data collection impact on trust in society? As decision-making becomes increasingly automated, how can decision-makers be held to account? This collection consider potential solutions to these challenges.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- Contributors -- An Introduction to Big Data and Democracy -- PART ONE -- ONE / Big Data, Consequentialism and Privacy -- TWO / Politics, Big Data and Opacity Respect -- THREE / A Pre-Occupation with Possession: the (Non-) Ownership of Personal Data -- FOUR / Policing with Big Data: DNA Matching vs Crime Prediction -- PART TWO -- FIVE / Dark Advertising and the Democratic Process -- SIX / Twitter and Electoral Bias -- SEVEN / Gated Communities of the Digitised Mind -- EIGHT / The Network and the Demos: Big Data andthe Epistemic Justifi cations of Democracy -- PART THREE

NINE / The Technics of a Gnostic World: an Ontogeny of Big Data -- TEN / Trust and Algorithmic Opacity -- ELEVEN / Opacity, Big Data, Artifi cial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Democratic Processes -- TWELVE / The Big Data Paradox and Its Importance to Strategy and Military Systems Development -- PART FOUR -- THIRTEEN / Beyond the Concept of Anonymity: What is Really at Stake? -- FOURTEEN / Big Data Analytics and the Accessibility of Public Inquiries -- FIFTEEN / Developing an Ethical Compass for Big Data -- Index

What's wrong with targeted advertising in political campaigns? Are echo chambers a matter of genuine concern? How does data collection impact on trust in society? As decision-making becomes increasingly automated, how can decision-makers be held to account? This collection consider potential solutions to these challenges.

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