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Big Data & Society (Sage Journals) | 1,192 followers on LinkedIn. Critical scholarship on the social, political, and cultural dimensions of big data. | Big Data & Society (BD&S) is an open access,...
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Dear all, Big Data & Society is fading out its presence on X. In the future, you will find us on LinkedIn and Bluesky: 🔗 LinkedIn: https://t.co/Y0OEu1t97i 🔗 BlueSky: https://t.co/YMXs5bc2RC Please follow us there to stay up to date on new publications, calls for papers, etc.
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Big Data & Society (Sage Journals) | 1,192 followers on LinkedIn. Critical scholarship on the social, political, and cultural dimensions of big data. | Big Data & Society (BD&S) is an open access,...
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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Sensing data: Towards ethnographic methods for data positionality" by Mette Simonsen Abildgaard https://t.co/Sjj8W6rwFz Introduces “sensing data” as an embodied method for studying digital infrastructures and how data is made, moved, and felt.
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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Prediction and data curation in digital humanitarianism" by @giazzolino & @NimeshDhungana
https://t.co/XcrvZGQ9r6 Asks how “data work” shapes digital humanitarianism, revealing tensions between prediction, curation, and humanitarian principles.
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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India" by @sagnikdutta & @MazumdarSuruchi
https://t.co/UlmXKtt8AW Digital rights activism in India reframes data sovereignty from the ground up.
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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design" by Jutta Haider et al. https://t.co/DMDb4n4wAd AI-driven platforms normalize high-emission lifestyles, calls for redesign
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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Decolonizing AI? Lessons from a failed experiment" by @martintironi & Camila Albornoz https://t.co/QUzcY595YH Failed bid to decolonize AI imaginaries in Latin America shows limits of dominant approaches, recasting failure as a tool for engagement
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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement" by Jessica Needle & Alan Rubel https://t.co/68jDBMNCVx Critiques U.S. use of Accurint in immigration enforcement for violating rights and autonomy.
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🚨 New in Big Data & Society🚨 "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" by Yuerong Hu (@miehumie) et al. https://t.co/DBkidReBeV Incentivized reviews show how sponsorship and platform dynamics shape reading, reinforce inequalities, and complicate use of scraped data in research.
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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "The promise of security of unfinished infrastructure" by @nina_amelung
https://t.co/UolxulZt9r How the EU’s ‘interoperability’ project, unfinished yet expanding, reshapes migration control through delays, data access, and migrant criminalization.
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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Our data, ourselves" by @sagnikdutta & @MazumdarSuruchi
https://t.co/UlmXKtt8AW Activists in India resist data colonialism and reimagine data sovereignty via grassroots mobilisation, accountability, and justice.
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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance" by @MahaRafiAtal & Pamela Mondliwa (@Nqojela) https://t.co/E2YZurDreb Fintech inclusion meets consolidation, data extraction & exclusion.
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In recent years, two changes have begun to transform the South African banking sector. First, financial technology startups have emerged, offering payments and ...
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🏠📉 New in Big Data & Society: Why the smart home failed Ethnographic insights from Goulden & Cameron reveal how everyday resistance quietly unraveled Big Tech’s dream. 📖 https://t.co/YB1bmaAx4T
#SmartHome #SurveillanceCapitalism #BigData #BDaS
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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data" by Aaron Martin https://t.co/Sf1ZBBybqX From Rohingya biometrics to Ukraine data, sharing humanitarian data disputes reveal deeper power struggles. Enter the “pseudo-sovereigns.” #HumanitarianData
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🎮 New in Big Data & Society: "Playing, earning, crashing, and grinding: Axie Infinity and growth crises in the Web3 economy" by Jordan Ali & Gili Vidan What happens when play becomes work—and the game economy crashes? 🔍 Read more: https://t.co/56ylB4HND1
#Web3 #PlayToEarn
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⚡: Read this new publication: "Designing markets, governing data: Engineering value in the American healthcare system" by Linda Huber! 🔓: https://t.co/G1ELTPHVLd
#datafication #governance #marketdesign #healthcare #value #scienceandtechnologystudies #economicsociology
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🚨: Check out this new publication: "Uniting and reigniting critical Wikimedia research" by Steve Jankowski, Heather Ford, Andrew Illiadis, and Francesca Sidoti! 🔓: https://t.co/1B32NnJzJu
#Wikimedia #Wikipedia #manifesto
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📢: Read this new article on "Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system" by @RobKitchin, @DavretJuliette, Carla M Kayanan, and @smutter100! 🔓: https://t.co/2K3TOvnEOY
#dataassemblage #dataecosystem
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🧬 New paper: The ethics of data interoperability #Interoperability enables data sharing, but also raises ethical risks. This piece maps key challenges in biomedical data & proposes pragmatic fixes: 📏 Standards 🧑🔬 Curation 🗂️ Documentation 🔗 https://t.co/1uSuoMfQEm
#DataEthics
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🆕New paper in Big Data & Society: AI work isn’t clean or predictable—it’s full of ambiguity. This piece argues we shouldn’t erase that ambiguity, but treat it as central to ethical reflection. 🔗 https://t.co/Z1jE8Fq1qW
#AIethics #STS #ResponsibleAI
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