Big Data & Society
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Big Data & Society is a SAGE open access peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes interdisciplinary work principally in the social sciences, humanities and computing and their intersections with the arts and natural sciences about the implications of Big Data for societies.
Big Data & Society
1w ago
by Gaia Amadori and Giovanna Mascheroni
Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach. Big Data & Society, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241234268
As data relations, namely relations and communicative practices that are mediated, sustained, and shaped by the digital technologies that extract data, are pervading practices and imaginaries of parenting and childhood, the challenge of empirically studying datafication becomes particularly prominent in this context.
To address the epistemological and methodological challenges in the study of ..read more
Big Data & Society
1M ago
By Fernando van der Vlist (@fvandervlist) and Anne Helmond (@silvertje)
Van der Vlist, F. N., Helmond, A., & Ferrari, F. L. (2024). Big AI: Cloud infrastructure dependence and the industrialisation of artificial intelligence. Big Data & Society, 11(1), 1–16.https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241232630
Convergence of AI and Big Tech—The ongoing competition among tech giants in the ‘cloud AI wars’ is shaping a supposed transformative era. Industry leaders like Bill Gates and Sundar Pichai underscore the foundational role of AI. However, this transformation is chiefl ..read more
Big Data & Society
1M ago
By Sarah Marquis
Hackfort, S., Marquis, S., & Bronson, K. (2024). Harvesting value: Corporate strategies of data assetization in agriculture and their socio-ecological implications. Big Data & Society, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241234279
In the past decade, much attention has been paid to the ways that Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook leverage personal data to create value, both economic and otherwise. Meanwhile, as digital technologies become more ubiquitous in agriculture, we thought it necessary to interrogate the ways that agricultural big data is being asse ..read more
Big Data & Society
1M ago
Featuring authors: Dr. Melissa Villa-Nicholas
Book: Data Borders: How Silicon Valley is Building an Industry around Immigrants (2023) University of California Press.
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Big Data & Society
3M ago
by Zelly Martin, Martin J. Riedl, Samuel C. Woolley
Martin, Z. C., Riedl, M. J., & Woolley, S. C. (2023). How pro- and anti-abortion activists use encrypted messaging apps in post-Roe America. Big Data & Society, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231221736
How pro- and anti-abortion activists use encrypted messaging apps in post-Roe America
On June 24th, 2022, the United States Supreme Court ended nearly 50 years of federal protection of abortion. Immediately, we noticed that experts were recommending encrypted messaging apps as the solution to abortion-related data leakage f ..read more
Big Data & Society
4M ago
by Christopher Till
Till, C. (2023). Spotify as a technology for integrating health, exercise and wellness practices into financialised capitalism. Big Data & Society, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231210278
Over the last few years I have noticed how Spotify, and similar music streaming services, have produced content and tailored services with the intention of helping us to improve our health and to exercise more. While looking into their innovations in this area (e.g. matching music tempo to running cadence, automatically generating playlists for particular activities) I began t ..read more
Big Data & Society
5M ago
In this bookcast, Andrew Dougall interviews Luke Munn, Research Fellow in Digital Cultures & Societies at the University of Queensland about his recent book 'Technical Territories: Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia' (2023).  ..read more
Big Data & Society
6M ago
by Alexander Campolo and Katia Schwerzmann
Campolo, A., & Schwerzmann, K. (2023). From rules to examples: Machine learning’s type of authority. Big Data & Society, 10(2).
https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231188725
The ethics of examples in machine learning
Our article investigates a perceived transition from a rules-based programming paradigm in computing to one in which machine learning systems are said to learn from examples. Instead of specifying computational rules in a formal programming language, machine learning systems identify statist ..read more
Big Data & Society
7M ago
Practices to collect, process, and communicate data have reconfigured sociological approaches to knowing and researching social life. Social researchers have analysed these reconfigurations as data-making practices, from the ethics of interacting with AI chatbots to the seductions of scraping social media data. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated accessing ‘the field’ from afar, with digital social research carried out remotely. How are these data practices continuing to make and transform digital social worlds?
Organised by the journal Big Data & Society together with the Department of Soci ..read more
Big Data & Society
1y ago
Call for Special Theme Proposals for Big Data & Society
The SAGE open access journal Big Data & Society (BD&S) is soliciting proposals for a Special Theme to be published in 2024/25. BD&S is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, scholarly journal that publishes interdisciplinary social science research about the emerging field of Big Data practices and how they are reconfiguring relations, expertise, methods, concepts and knowledge across academic, social, cultural, political, and economic realms. BD&S moves beyond usual notions of Big Data to engage with an emerg ..read more