Upcoming Public Lecture: Nick Couldry on the Myth of Big Data

In the past year, the LSE Media Policy Project blog has contained a lot of discussion of “big data”. Stefan Strauss and Monica Horten wrote about the EU’s Data Protection Directive and the protection of personal data from mass collection by corporate interests. Oxford’s Ian Brown explained how big data is accessed by government agencies, and our Internet Governance Series covered recent attempts by Brazil and other countries to take control over where big data is stored and transferred. But have we been perpetuating flawed assumptions about the nature of big data?