BigDataSoc's profile picture. Big Data & Society is fading out its presence on X. You can now find us on LinkedIn and BlueSky. Please follow us there to stay up to date.

Big Data & Society

@BigDataSoc

Big Data & Society is fading out its presence on X. You can now find us on LinkedIn and BlueSky. Please follow us there to stay up to date.

Pinned

🚨 We’re now on @LinkedIn Follow Big Data & Society (Sage Journals) for updates on new articles, calls for papers, and critical conversations on data, tech & society. 🔗 Join us here: linkedin.com/company/big-da… #BigDataSociety #AcademicTwitter #DigitalSociety #OpenAccess


Dear all, Big Data & Society is fading out its presence on X. In the future, you will find us on LinkedIn and Bluesky: 🔗 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/big-da… 🔗 BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/bigdat… Please follow us there to stay up to date on new publications, calls for papers, etc.


🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Sensing data: Towards ethnographic methods for data positionality" by Mette Simonsen Abildgaard doi.org/10.1177/205395… Introduces “sensing data” as an embodied method for studying digital infrastructures and how data is made, moved, and felt.

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Sensing data: Towards ethnographic methods for data positionality" by Mette Simonsen Abildgaard doi.org/10.1177/205395…
Introduces “sensing data” as an embodied method for studying digital infrastructures and how data is made, moved, and felt.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Prediction and data curation in digital humanitarianism" by @giazzolino & @NimeshDhungana doi.org/10.1177/205395… Asks how “data work” shapes digital humanitarianism, revealing tensions between prediction, curation, and humanitarian principles.

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Prediction and data curation in digital humanitarianism" by @giazzolino & @NimeshDhungana
doi.org/10.1177/205395…
Asks how “data work” shapes digital humanitarianism, revealing tensions between prediction, curation, and humanitarian principles.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India" by @sagnikdutta & @MazumdarSuruchi doi.org/10.1177/205395… Digital rights activism in India reframes data sovereignty from the ground up.

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India" by @sagnikdutta & @MazumdarSuruchi  doi.org/10.1177/205395…
Digital rights activism in India reframes data sovereignty from the ground up.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design" by Jutta Haider et al. doi.org/10.1177/205395… AI-driven platforms normalize high-emission lifestyles, calls for redesign

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design" by Jutta Haider et al. doi.org/10.1177/205395…
AI-driven platforms normalize high-emission lifestyles, calls for redesign

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Decolonizing AI? Lessons from a failed experiment" by @martintironi & Camila Albornoz doi.org/10.1177/205395… Failed bid to decolonize AI imaginaries in Latin America shows limits of dominant approaches, recasting failure as a tool for engagement

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
 "Decolonizing AI? Lessons from a failed experiment" by @martintironi & Camila Albornoz doi.org/10.1177/205395…
Failed bid to decolonize AI imaginaries in Latin America shows limits of dominant approaches, recasting failure as a tool for engagement

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement" by Jessica Needle & Alan Rubel doi.org/10.1177/205395… Critiques U.S. use of Accurint in immigration enforcement for violating rights and autonomy.

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
 "The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement" by Jessica Needle & Alan Rubel doi.org/10.1177/205395…
Critiques U.S. use of Accurint in immigration enforcement for violating rights and autonomy.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society🚨 "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" by Yuerong Hu (@miehumie) et al. doi.org/10.1177/205395… Incentivized reviews show how sponsorship and platform dynamics shape reading, reinforce inequalities, and complicate use of scraped data in research.

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🚨 New in Big Data & Society🚨 
"Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" by Yuerong Hu (@miehumie) et al. doi.org/10.1177/205395…
Incentivized reviews show how sponsorship and platform dynamics shape reading, reinforce inequalities, and complicate use of scraped data in research.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "The promise of security of unfinished infrastructure" by @nina_amelung doi.org/10.1177/205395… How the EU’s ‘interoperability’ project, unfinished yet expanding, reshapes migration control through delays, data access, and migrant criminalization.

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
 "The promise of security of unfinished infrastructure" by @nina_amelung
doi.org/10.1177/205395…
How the EU’s ‘interoperability’ project, unfinished yet expanding, reshapes migration control through delays, data access, and migrant criminalization.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Our data, ourselves" by @sagnikdutta & @MazumdarSuruchi doi.org/10.1177/205395… Activists in India resist data colonialism and reimagine data sovereignty via grassroots mobilisation, accountability, and justice.

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
 "Our data, ourselves" by @sagnikdutta & @MazumdarSuruchi  doi.org/10.1177/205395…
Activists in India resist data colonialism and reimagine data sovereignty via grassroots mobilisation, accountability, and justice.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance" by @MahaRafiAtal & Pamela Mondliwa (@Nqojela) doi.org/10.1177/205395… Fintech inclusion meets consolidation, data extraction & exclusion.


🏠📉 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. 📖 lnkd.in/ezp-Ee-h #SmartHome #SurveillanceCapitalism #BigData #BDaS

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🏠📉 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.
📖 lnkd.in/ezp-Ee-h

#SmartHome #SurveillanceCapitalism #BigData #BDaS

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data" by Aaron Martin journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… From Rohingya biometrics to Ukraine data, sharing humanitarian data disputes reveal deeper power struggles. Enter the “pseudo-sovereigns.” #HumanitarianData

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
 "Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data" by Aaron Martin journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… 
From Rohingya biometrics to Ukraine data, sharing humanitarian data disputes reveal deeper power struggles. Enter the “pseudo-sovereigns.” #HumanitarianData

🎮 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: lnkd.in/e9MU9VNN #Web3 #PlayToEarn

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🎮 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: lnkd.in/e9MU9VNN
#Web3 #PlayToEarn

⚡: Read this new publication: "Designing markets, governing data: Engineering value in the American healthcare system" by Linda Huber! 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… #datafication #governance #marketdesign #healthcare #value #scienceandtechnologystudies #economicsociology

BigDataSoc's tweet image. ⚡: Read this new publication: "Designing markets, governing data: Engineering value in the American healthcare system" by Linda Huber!

🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

#datafication #governance #marketdesign #healthcare #value #scienceandtechnologystudies #economicsociology

🚨: Check out this new publication: "Uniting and reigniting critical Wikimedia research" by Steve Jankowski, Heather Ford, Andrew Illiadis, and Francesca Sidoti! 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #manifesto

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🚨: Check out this new publication: "Uniting and reigniting critical Wikimedia research" by Steve Jankowski, Heather Ford, Andrew Illiadis, and Francesca 
Sidoti!

🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

#Wikimedia #Wikipedia #manifesto

📢: 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! 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… #dataassemblage #dataecosystem

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 📢:  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!

🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

#dataassemblage #dataecosystem

🧬 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 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/205395… #DataEthics

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🧬 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
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/205395…
#DataEthics

🆕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. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/205395… #AIethics #STS #ResponsibleAI

BigDataSoc's tweet image. 🆕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.

🔗 doi.org/10.1177/205395…
#AIethics #STS #ResponsibleAI

Loading...

Something went wrong.


Something went wrong.