The Politics and Policies of Big Data

Sætnan, Ann Rudinow; Schneider, Ingrid; Green, Nicola

Sætnan, Schneider and Green: The politics of Big Data: Big Data, big brother? Introduction to the volume

Section One) Principles and Paradigms: Questioning the tenets of Big Data

2) Saetnan: The haystack fallacy, or why Big Data provides little security

3) Matzner: Grasping the ethics and politics of algorithms

4) Strauss: Big Data – within the tides of securitisation?

5) Matzner: Surveillance as critical paradigm for Big Data?

Section Two) Big Data Policies: Politics of Governance and Regulation

6) Rieder: Tracing Big Data imaginaries through public policy: The case of the European Commission

7) Pasquale: The automated public sphere

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

9) Simões and Jerónimo: Rear window - transparent citizens versus political participation

10) Tøndel and Sætnan: Fading dots, disappearing lines – Surveillance and Big Data in news media after the Snowden revelations

Section Three) Performance is Political: Big Data Practices, Performance, and Resistance

11) Bellanova and Gonzalez Fuster: No (Big) Data, no fiction? Thinking surveillance with/against Netflix

12) Fleischhack: ‘Data trainings’ in German schools – Learning empowerment from hackers

13) Ochs: Self-protection beyond the self: Collective privacy practices in (Big) datascapes

14) Noorman/Wessels/Sveinsdottir/Wyatt: Understanding the ‘open’ in

making research data open: Policy rhetoric and research practice

Postscript:

15) Green: Postscript: Big Data’s methodological challenges