%0 Journal Article
%T The Politics of Big Data Assemblages
%A Biagio Aragona
%A Cristiano Felaco
%A Marina Marino
%J -
%D 2018
%R DOI Code: 10.1285/i20356609v11i2p448
%X One way to study the politics of big data is the inspection of their assemblages. By opening up the ¡°black boxes¡± of data assemblages, it is possible to reconstruct the choices, compromises, conflicts and agree-ments that contributed to the construction of a given datum. Leaning on in-depth interviews and focus groups with experts and specialists who work within three European data centers, we unveil the interde-pendence between social and technical aspects and between a series of internal and external actors, which all contribute to the data assemblage. Results show that communities of experts, technologies, stakeholders and end-users are entwined components that interact amongst them in a contingent and complex web of negotiations and constraints and frame what is possible, desirable and expected by data
%K Data Assemblage
%K Big Data
%K Symbolic power
%K Qualitative interviews
%K Data centers
%U http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/19550