Computational Politics: Social Media and Digital Capture

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1. Has Andrejevic adequately made the case that corporate SMPs are exploitative? If so, how so? What aspects of his argument did you find the most or least compelling, and why?

*Reading please see attached file. (Social Network Exploitation (Marc Andrejevic))


2. What is the essence of computational politics, as Zeynap Tufekci sees it? Is it an inevitable feature of today's social life? Or are there ways around submitting to its requirements?

*Reading link: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4901/4097 (Zeynep Tufekci)   

Engineering the public: Big data, surveillance, and computational politics.  First Monday, 19(7). 

 

 

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