Sætnan, Ann Rudinow; Schneider, Ingrid; Green, Nicola

• Sætnan, Schneider and Green: The politics of Big Data: Big Data, big brother? Introduction to the volumeSection One) Principles and Paradigms: Questioning the tenets of Big Data2) Saetnan: The haystack fallacy, or why Big Data provides little security3) Matzner: Grasping the ethics and politics of algorithms4) Strauss: Big Data – within the tides of securitisation?5) Matzner: Surveillance as critical paradigm for Big Data?Section Two) Big Data Policies: Politics of Governance and Regulation6) Rieder: Tracing Big Data imaginaries through public policy: The case of the European Commission 7) Pasquale: The automated public sphere8) Schneider: Bringing the state back in: Big Data-based capitalism, disruption, and novel regulatory approaches in Europe9) Simões and Jerónimo: Rear window - transparent citizens versus political participation10) Tøndel and Sætnan: Fading dots, disappearing lines – Surveillance and Big Data in news media after the Snowden revelationsSection Three) Performance is Political: Big Data Practices, Performance, and Resistance11) Bellanova and Gonzalez Fuster: No (Big) Data, no fiction? Thinking surveillance with/against Netflix12) Fleischhack: ‘Data trainings’ in German schools – Learning empowerment from hackers 13) Ochs: Self-protection beyond the self: Collective privacy practices in (Big) datascapes14) Noorman/Wessels/Sveinsdottir/Wyatt: Understanding the ‘open’ inmaking research data open: Policy rhetoric and research practicePostscript: 15) Green: Postscript: Big Data’s methodological challenges

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