Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Compromised Data-From Social Media to Big Data -- The mineable social -- Big social data and governance -- Compromised data -- Rebuilding the social -- References -- Part One: Data, Power, and Politics -- Chapter 2 Big Data as System of Knowledge: Investigating Canadian Governance -- Introduction -- Method -- Findings -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Data Mining Research and the Disintegration of Society: The "Project X" Haren Riots -- Understanding the "Accidental" Haren riots -- The mediated suppression of social despair and disintegration -- The rioters as technocratic "war machines" -- Fatalities: The ghostly return of the humanist spirit -- References -- Chapter 4 Look at the Man Behind the Curtain: Computational Management in "Spontaneous" Citizen Political Campaigning -- Introduction -- Change.org to the rescue: Trayvon Martin and "GOTP" campaign techniques -- MoveOn.org effect 2, electric boogaloo -- We The People's neutral administrative logic -- Comparative affordances -- A week in the life of a distributed petition site -- Stability -- Signature growth -- Additional trends -- Conclusion: Divergent logics and escaping the warehouse metaphor -- References -- Part Two: Data Limit(ed) -- Chapter 5 Easy Data, Hard Data: The Politics and Pragmatics of Twitter Research After the Computational Turn -- The implications of the computational turn -- Platform politics and regimes of access -- The changing scientific affordances of twitter data -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6 Scraping the First Person -- Scraper analytics -- Screen and interface scraping -- Crawler scraping-index and content -- API scraping -- Conclusions -- References.

Chapter 7 Openness Compromised? Questioning the Role of Openness in Digital Methods and Contemporary Critical Praxis -- Introduction -- Digital methods and the value of opening -- Digital methods and the exploit -- Opening up the black box of the Web: Web archiving and its praxis -- The convenience of open data for the digital enclosure -- Platform studies and me-centricity -- Is openness still relevant? -- References -- Chapter 8 Critical Reverse Engineering: The Case of Twitter and TalkOpen -- Introduction -- Reverse engineering and the humanities -- The pragmatic orientation -- The genealogical orientation -- The legal orientation -- The normative orientation -- Reverse engineering twitter: The case of TalkOpen -- Pragmatic -- Genealogical -- Legal -- Normative -- What went wrong with TalkOpen? -- Conclusion: Critical reverse engineering as a bridge between engineering and humanities -- References -- Part Three: Alt-Data -- Chapter 9 Mapping Movements-Social Movement Research and Big Data: Critiques and Alternatives -- Introduction -- Big data and social movements -- The ethics of social movement research -- New biases in data collection and analysis -- Mapping big data methodologies for social movement research? -- Concluding thoughts and directions forward -- References -- Chapter 10 Data Activism -- Introduction -- Transindividuation and data activism: Socio-technical and political considerations -- Occupy Streams: Data and social media platform politics -- Occupy Data: Data visualization and knowledge production -- Creative data activism -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11 A Contribution to the Political Economy of Personal Archives -- Introduction -- The archive after decentralization -- Archive and milieu -- Objects and care -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12 The Haunted Life of Data.

Introduction: A case for small data -- The Bargh controversy -- Hans the horse: Scene 1-Refraction -- Bargh's retort: Scene 2-Resurrection and the work of interference -- Letting the horse lie: Scene 3-Resurrecting ghosts and diffractive reading -- Denouement: Setting the record straight -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index.

There has been a data rush in the past decade brought about by online communication and, in particular, social media (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, among others), which promises a new age of digital enlightenment. But social data is compromised: it is being seized by specific economic interests, it leads to a fundamental shift in the relationship between research and the public good, and it fosters new forms of control and surveillance. Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data explores how we perform critical research within a compromised social data framework. The expert, international lineup of contributors explores the limits and challenges of social data research in order to invent and develop new modes of doing public research. At its core, this collection argues that we are witnessing a fundamental reshaping of the social through social data mining.

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