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This document discusses the need to examine big data from the perspective of agency and reflexivity of individual actors, rather than just focusing on "algorithmic power". It provides two examples: 1) How community organizations use analytics to meet their own social goals. 2) How actors are trying to build a more open information economy that allows for civic intervention, such as in the environmental field. It concludes by arguing these empirical studies should be understood in the context of norms like v

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DylanOSullivan

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