Post, Mine, Repeat

Download or read book Post, Mine, Repeat written by Helen Kennedy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Helen Kennedy argues that as social media data mining becomes more and more ordinary, as we post, mine and repeat, new data relations emerge. These new data relations are characterised by a widespread desire for numbers and the troubling consequences of this desire, and also by the possibility of doing good with data and resisting data power, by new and old concerns, and by instability and contradiction. Drawing on action research with public sector organisations, interviews with commercial social insights companies and their clients, focus groups with social media users and other research, Kennedy provides a fascinating and detailed account of living with social media data mining inside the organisations that make up the fabric of everyday life.