Big Data and Democracy
1st Edition
Published on 18. June 2020
265 pages
978-1-4744-6354-6 (ISBN)
Description
What's wrong with targeted advertising in political campaigns? Should we be worried about echo chambers? 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. It brings together original research on the philosophy of big data and democracy from leading international authors, with recent examples - including the 2016 Brexit Referendum, the Leveson Inquiry and the Edward Snowden leaks. And it asks whether an ethical compass is available or even feasible in an ever more digitised and monitored world.
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Kevin Macnish | Jai Galliott
Big Data and Democracy
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07/2020
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- 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
