Data and agency

Big Data and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Kennedy, Helen ^a   Poell, Thomas ^b   van Dijck, Jose ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

agency; citizenship; Data; data work; datafication; power

Indexed keywords

EID: 85074193464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20539517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053951715621569     Document Type: Editorial

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