Title :
Data, Legibility, Creativity ... and Power
Author_Institution :
Electron. & Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
In a world where data crunching has the potential to crunch out the individual, how can people respond? Kieron O´Hara discusses the dangers and downfalls of conflating people with data, without a balance in feedback between algorithms and individuals.
Keywords :
data handling; social networking (online); data creativity; data crunching; data legibility; data power; Big Data; Internet/Web technologies; data mining; sentiment analysis; social media;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2015.34