Prediction, pre-emption and limits to dissent: Social media and big data uses for policing protests in the United Kingdom

Social media and big data uses form part of a broader shift from ‘reactive’ to ‘proactive’ forms of governance in which state bodies engage in analysis to predict, pre-empt and respond in real time to a range of social problems. Drawing on research with British police, we contextualize these algorit...

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Published in:	New media & society Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 1433 - 1450
Main Authors:	Dencik, Lina, Hintz, Arne, Carey, Zoe
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London, England SAGE Publications 01.04.2018
Subjects:	dissent Big data protest social media predictive policing
ISSN:	1461-4448, 1461-7315
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