How web tracking changes user agency in the age of Big Data: The used user

Big Data and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Peacock, Sylvia E ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

agency; Big Data; HTTP cookies; personal data; political economy of information; Web tracking technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942802874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20539517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053951714564228     Document Type: Article

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