NINE The Technics of a Gnostic World: an Ontogeny of Big Data

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. CONTRIBUTORS vii
4. An Introduction to Big Data and Democracy 1
5. Part One
6. ONE Big Data, Consequentialism and Privacy 11
7. TWO Politics, Big Data and Opacity Respect 27
8. THREE A Pre-Occupation with Possession: the (Non-) Ownership of Personal Data 42
9. FOUR Policing with Big Data: DNA Matching vs Crime Prediction 57
10. Part Two
11. FIVE Dark Advertising and the Democratic Process 71
12. SIX Twitter and Electoral Bias 89
13. SEVEN Gated Communities of the Digitised Mind 104
14. EIGHT The Network and the Demos: Big Data and the Epistemic Justifi cations of Democracy 119
15. Part Three
16. NINE The Technics of a Gnostic World: an Ontogeny of Big Data 135
17. TEN Trust and Algorithmic Opacity 153
18. ELEVEN Opacity, Big Data, Artifi cial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Democratic Processes 167
19. TWELVE The Big Data Paradox and Its Importance to Strategy and Military Systems Development 182
20. Part Four
21. THIRTEEN Beyond the Concept of Anonymity: What is Really at Stake? 199
22. FOURTEEN Big Data Analytics and the Accessibility of Public Inquiries 217
23. FIFTEEN Developing an Ethical Compass for Big Data 231
24. INDEX 247