Big Data and : Walter Lippmann and the fallacy of data privacy self-management

In 1927, Walter Lippmann published The Phantom Public , denouncing the ‘mystical fallacy of democracy.’ Decrying romantic democratic models that privilege self-governance, he writes: “I have not happened to meet anybody, from a President of the United States to a professor of political science, who...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jonathan A Obar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-10-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715608876