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Post, Mine, Repeat: Social Media Data Mining Becomes Ordinary
Helen Kennedy
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Description for Post, Mine, Repeat: Social Media Data Mining Becomes Ordinary
Hardback. Num Pages: 277 pages, 15 colour illustrations, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; UNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 219 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
In this book, Helen Kennedy argues that as social media data mining becomes more and more ordinary, as we post, mine and repeat, new data relations emerge. These new data relations are characterised by a widespread desire for numbers and the troubling consequences of this desire, and also by the possibility of doing good with data and resisting data power, by new and old concerns, and by instability and contradiction. Drawing on action research with public sector organisations, interviews with commercial social insights companies and their clients, focus groups with social media users and other research, Kennedy provides a fascinating ... Read more
In this book, Helen Kennedy argues that as social media data mining becomes more and more ordinary, as we post, mine and repeat, new data relations emerge. These new data relations are characterised by a widespread desire for numbers and the troubling consequences of this desire, and also by the possibility of doing good with data and resisting data power, by new and old concerns, and by instability and contradiction. Drawing on action research with public sector organisations, interviews with commercial social insights companies and their clients, focus groups with social media users and other research, Kennedy provides a fascinating ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137353979
SKU
V9781137353979
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99-15
About Helen Kennedy
Helen Kennedy is Professor of Digital Society at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has researched and published widely across the field of digital media, from web homepages to data visualisations, from race, class, gender inequality to learning disability and web accessibility, from web design to social media data mining.
Reviews for Post, Mine, Repeat: Social Media Data Mining Becomes Ordinary
I am grateful that this book highlights so many aspects of social data mining, including the quantified self movement and the Seeing Data project that identify ways in which ordinary citizens can engage more with the politics of data mining ... . Media studies students and professors seeking a snapshot of scholarship on social media data mining will find this ... Read more