Real social analytics: A contribution towards a phenomenology of a digital world

British Journal of Sociology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 118-137

  Couldry, Nick ^a   Fotopoulou, Aristea ^b   Dickens, Luke ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Algorithmic power; Algorithms; Categorization; Phenomenology; Reflexivity; Social analytics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; INTERNET; METADATA; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHILOSOPHY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; INTERNET; METADATA; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PHILOSOPHY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 84959859865     PISSN: 00071315     EISSN: 14684446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12183     Document Type: Article

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