My 2014 paper on computational politics. Big data; targeting; modeling; persuasion; experimentation; platforms. http://firstmonday.org/article/view/4901/4097 …pic.twitter.com/5ndhPq9cSA
Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org
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My 2014 paper on computational politics. Big data; targeting; modeling; persuasion; experimentation; platforms. http://firstmonday.org/article/view/4901/4097 …pic.twitter.com/5ndhPq9cSA
Many know my 2012 NYT op-ed on dangers of digital targeting, experimentation and platforms. But I wrote longer, too. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/opinion/beware-the-big-data-campaign.html …pic.twitter.com/GuAOEJbOGm
I absolutely wasn't the only person warning about any of this. We've been talking about this since 2010 or so—started after Obama 08.
So I don't buy the idea that we were all blindsided by 2016. Nobody can forecast exact futures—but the worrisome dynamics were identified.
Also a lot on platforms, censorship via info glut & mis/disinformation, etc. in my book written before the election. http://www.twitterandteargas.org
Also my 2013 paper trying to explain why *attention* is a key political resource no longer in mass media monopoly. http://technosociology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Zeynep-Attention-Economy-and-MicroCelebrity-Activism.pdf …pic.twitter.com/TC1bJ4OSYb
My work is generally public, open-access or creative-commons. I believe academics—not just me, academics—bring something novel to the table.
Academics try to consider the good of the public in light of research & knowledge of history—and not to profit from it, but for public good.
Was the industry blindsided? Partly yes, and partly because being blindsided is so profitable for them & partly because of their worldview.
But were there many voices identifying the dynamics, warning people and making suggestions? Yes, yes and yes. Mostly academics but not just.
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