The Dark and Light Sides of Big Data

doi:10.1017/9781108147828.013

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

Edited by

Joya Misra and

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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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 data harmonization Twitter Information Communication Technology (ICT)survey research network analysis topic modeling political mobilization critical mass advocacy inflation

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Information: The New Handbook of Political Sociology , pp. 321 - 352

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