The Politics of Big Data Assemblages

<span class="abs_content">One way to study the politics of big data is the inspection of their assemblages. By opening up the “black boxes” of data assemblages, it is possible to reconstruct the choices, compromises, conflicts and agree-ments that contributed to the construction of a...

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Autores principales: Biagio Aragona, Cristiano Felaco, Marina Marino
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:e05e59307a3248a7a39f74bcb12229792021-11-21T15:11:40ZThe Politics of Big Data Assemblages1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v11i2p448https://doaj.org/article/e05e59307a3248a7a39f74bcb12229792018-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/19550https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">One way to study the politics of big data is the inspection of their assemblages. By opening up the “black boxes” of data assemblages, it is possible to reconstruct the choices, compromises, conflicts and agree-ments that contributed to the construction of a given datum. Leaning on in-depth interviews and focus groups with experts and specialists who work within three European data centers, we unveil the interde-pendence between social and technical aspects and between a series of internal and external actors, which all contribute to the data assemblage. Results show that communities of experts, technologies, stakeholders and end-users are entwined components that interact amongst them in a contingent and complex web of negotiations and constraints and frame what is possible, desirable and expected by data.</span><br />Biagio AragonaCristiano FelacoMarina MarinoCoordinamento SIBAarticledata assemblagebig datasymbolic powerqualitative interviewsdata centersPolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 11, Iss 2, Pp 448-471 (2018)
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topic data assemblage
big data
symbolic power
qualitative interviews
data centers
Political science (General)
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spellingShingle data assemblage
big data
symbolic power
qualitative interviews
data centers
Political science (General)
JA1-92
Biagio Aragona
Cristiano Felaco
Marina Marino
The Politics of Big Data Assemblages
description <span class="abs_content">One way to study the politics of big data is the inspection of their assemblages. By opening up the “black boxes” of data assemblages, it is possible to reconstruct the choices, compromises, conflicts and agree-ments that contributed to the construction of a given datum. Leaning on in-depth interviews and focus groups with experts and specialists who work within three European data centers, we unveil the interde-pendence between social and technical aspects and between a series of internal and external actors, which all contribute to the data assemblage. Results show that communities of experts, technologies, stakeholders and end-users are entwined components that interact amongst them in a contingent and complex web of negotiations and constraints and frame what is possible, desirable and expected by data.</span><br />
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