dc.description.abstract | While working on this book, I have immensely benefitted from the fantastic
support of many peers, colleagues and friends. I am very grateful for their
advice and encouragement. I would also like to thank those who have contributed to big data discourses, ethics and critical data studies: their insights and
their initiation of much-needed debates were invaluable for my work.
I am very grateful to my colleagues at Maastricht University’s Faculty of
Arts & Social Science. Although more colleagues deserve gratitude, I would
particularly like to thank Sally Wyatt, Anna Harris, Vivian van Saaze, Tamar
Sharon, Tsjalling Swierstra and Karin Wenz. Their work, advice and support
were crucial for this project. My sincere thanks go to Sally Wyatt for her advice
and for endorsing my application for a Brocher fellowship. This 1-month visiting fellowship at the Brocher Foundation (www.brocher.ch) allowed me to
focus on my book and I would like to thank the foundation as well as its staff.
In addition, I tremendously appreciated and enjoyed the company of and the
discussions with the other fellows; among them were Laura Bothwell, Alain
Giami, Adam Henschke, Katherine Weatherford Darling, Bertrand Taithe,
Peter West-Oram and Sabine Wildevuur.
I received detailed, much-appreciated feedback and suggestions from the
anonymous reviewers. I would like to thank them for their time and their
elaborate comments which were incredibly helpful for revising the manuscript. Moreover, I am very grateful to Andrew Lockett, from University of Westminster Press, and Christian Fuchs, editor of the Critical, Digital and
Social Media Studies series, for supporting this book and for enabling its open
access publication.
Last, though certainly not least, I would like to thank my family, my parents
and my brothers, for being as supportive and understanding as ever. I would
like to thank my partner, Stefan Meuleman, not only for patiently allowing me
the time and space needed to complete this project, but also for his advice on
the book and for making sure that I take time away from it too. | es_PE |