Media
David Beer – The Data Problem
The problem lurking at the heart of the UK Government’s emerging data strategy and what it tells us about the wider future of data usage David Beer is Professor for Sociology at the University of […]
David Beer
Finance
The People Vs Tech by Jamie Bartlett
Book review by David Beer Is technology undermining democracy? Do we ever really know how we arrive at our political views? The pixelated vision of the near future offered in Jamie Bartlett’s new book […]
Economics
David Beer – The power of our social media data
“Platform Capitalism is, of course, underpinned by the value of our data. Targeting people using their data is not the exception, it is the whole point. It is targeting that enables data to be turned […]
Finance
David Beer: The power of our social media data
David Beer looks at various apsects of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and considers some solutions to the problems posed by social media. Read here