Privatheit, Offentlichkeit Und Demokratische Willensbildung in Zeiten Von Big Data

Everybody talks about Big Data. But what does Big Data mean for democracy? The book aims at establishing that connection, a connection mostly missing or missing out in discussions about these new methods of data processing. How does Big Data change the relationship between the private and the public sphere. How will these changes affect political discourse, election campaigns and democratic culture in general? Will the benefits predominate or the detriments? How can privacy and publicity be newly adjusted and balanced in order to allow for a free forming of the political will in the age of bg data? Researchers and scientists from computer sciences, law, ethics, sociology and psychology have been working on these questions and are opening up interdisciplinary discourse on phenomena of moder data processing which are already in the act of fundamentally challenging well-established ideas on parliamentary democracy.