Engineering the public: Big data, surveillance and computational politics

First Monday

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Tufekci, Zeynep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 84906071063     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v19i7.4901     Document Type: Article

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