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12 - The Dark and Light Sides of Big Data

How Big Data Is Transforming Political Sociology

from II - Media Explosion, Knowledge as Power, and Demographic Reversals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

By
J. Craig Jenkins
Edited by
Thomas Janoski ,
Cedric de Leon ,
Joya Misra  and
Isaac William Martin
Thomas Janoski
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky
Cedric de Leon
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Joya Misra
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Isaac William Martin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

The growth of Big Data has become central to the politics of contemporary societies and stimulated new research in political sociology. Citizens and states increasingly depend on the Internet, cell phones, social media, and other new information communication technologies (or ICTs) to communicate about politics and to mobilize, control, monitor, and influence politics (Castells 2009, 2012; Castells and Cardoso 2015). One of the most important consequences has been the “Twitter revolution” of using websites, blogs, social media, and cell phones to mobilize and coordinate political action. ICTs have lowered communication costs, provided platforms for forming new political identities and identifying grievances, devising strategies, organizing protests and collective action, creating citizen access to information (including internet hacks), carrying out administrative planning, and providing new platforms for democratic discussion and governance (the “light side”).

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big dataharmonizationTwitterInformation Communication Technology (ICT)survey researchnetwork analysistopic modelingpolitical mobilizationcritical massadvocacy inflation
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The New Handbook of Political Sociology , pp. 321 - 352
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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