Introduction. Politics of Big Data
Mark Coté, Paolo Gerbaudo, Jennifer Pybus · Digital Culture & Society · 2016
This special issue offers a critical dialogue around the myriad political dimensions of Big Data. We begin by recognising that the technological objects of Big Data are unprecedented in the speed, scope and scale of their computation and knowledge production. This critical dialogue is grounded in an equal recognition of continuities around Big Data’s social, cultural, and political economic dimensions.