Big Data & Society
bigdatasoc.bsky.social
Big Data & Society
@bigdatasoc.bsky.social
Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
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The Big Data and Society Editorial Team will be on editorial break from December 17 to January 4. Please accept delays in processing and reviewing your submission and related correspondence during that time. Many thanks for your understanding!
The Big Data and Society Editorial Team will be on editorial break from December 17 to January 4. Please accept delays in processing and reviewing your submission and related correspondence during that time. Many thanks for your understanding!
December 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🆕 New in Big Data & Society:
How corporations in China, Germany & the US strategically shape AI governance through imaginaries like “Responsible AI” and “AI for Good.” A critical look at power, discourse & regulation.

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#AIGovernance #TechPower #BigDataAndSociety
December 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
How do ChatGPT and Bard respond to homophobic prompts across different cultural and religious contexts? New research reveals a tension between cultural relativism and universal human rights in generative AI: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#AIEthics #GenerativeAI #HumanRights
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
AI as Political Concept

🤖🗳️ New Big Data & Society paper: AI discourse creates false certainty, hides human responsibility, and narrows democratic space.

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December 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Green Platform Capitalism

🌍💾 Amazon, Apple & Microsoft frame tech as the solution to climate — but new Big Data & Society research calls this “green platform capitalism.”

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December 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Too Good To Go & CO₂

📊🍽️ New Big Data & Society study: users largely don’t trust or act on “CO₂e avoided” scores in the Too Good To Go app. Fixed metrics ≠ meaningful impact.

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December 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
New in Big Data & Society:
How should ethnographers navigate GenAI visuals? This commentary introduces a 3C Framework—Contextuality, Consent, Criticality—to support ethical and reflective use of AI-generated images in research.

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December 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
New in Big Data & Society:
When—if ever—is opaque AI acceptable in clinical decision-making? This article outlines the reasons that can justify black-box AI in healthcare, emphasizing accuracy, reliability & context-specific considerations.

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December 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
New in Big Data & Society:
Large global survey (N=1523) shows women & LGBTQ+ users are disproportionately misgendered by X’s gender inference algorithms. Misgendering strongly shapes trust, user attitudes & perceptions of platform governance.

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December 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Samuele Fratini examines how digital sovereignty is performed through infrastructures, institutions & imaginaries. Using the case of Threema, the article shows how privacy, seclusion & territorialism shape a “hybrid black box” of sovereignty.

OA: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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It's also a sort of running technical appendix to my work on the continuity between LLMs and cybernetics, such as this article in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social

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Chapter three from my thesis is finally out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social! I explore the parallels between the "bit" and the "embeddings" that are a foundational structure in Large Language Models, showing how the latter endow tech companies with what I call "cosine capital."

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"Cosine capital: Large language models and the embedding of all things" by Mikael Brunila doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Proposes “cosine capital” to describe how LLM embeddings commodify language and data, reshaping power, abstraction, and AI economies.
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Thrilled to have a new article published in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social! 🥳🎉📊

With scraping becoming a more common data collection strategy for internet researchers, we cover the legal, ethical, institutional, and scientific ramifications researchers should consider. doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨

"Mosaic of state power: How ‘New’ state capitalism shapes global tech capital” by Weidi Zheng.

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#newstatecapitalism #datagovernance #capitalism #governance
November 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨

"Dancing with anklets: Navigating digital rural governance with big data in China” by Min Zhou.

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#digitalvillagestrategy #digitalruralgovernance #digitalgridsystem
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨

"Feeding the machine: Practitioner experiences of efforts to overcome AI’s data dilemma” by Jo Bates, Monika Fratczak, Hellen Kennedy, Itzelle Medina Perea, and Erinma Ochu.

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#datainputs #machinelearning #datadilemma #datawork
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨

"Data economy: A discussion on value, fictitious valorisation, and national sovereignty” by César Bolaño and Fabrício Zanghelini.

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#dataeconomy #value #fictitiouscapital #nationalsovereignty
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨

"Sex in the medical machine: How algorithms can entrench bioessentialism in precision medicine” by K. Ichikawa, M. Boulicault, A. Thinius, M. DiMarco, A. Murchland, B. Maldonado, A. Higgins, and S. Richardson.

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#sex #gender #precisionmedicine
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Using archival versions of apps to understand emerging digital ecosystems" by James Burroughs, Ashwin Matthew, and Elisa Oreglia.

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#appanalysis #apphistoriography
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"When artificial intelligence meets accountability: Who holds legitimacy as account givers and holders?" by Shangrui Wang et al. doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Finds citizens trust humans over AI in accountability roles, revealing tensions in public trust and governance.
November 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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“Revolutionize medicine as we know it”: Shaping imaginaries of the European Health Data Space by Desirée Enlund doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Examines how EU health data imaginaries shape digital care futures raising concerns over data commodification and Big Tech governance
November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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"Bridging silos or adding friction?" by Wouter Van Rossem & Annalisa Pelizza doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Explores how data work enables re-identification across interoperable systems, revealing hidden frictions in migration and government tech.
November 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Synthetic data as meaningful data. On Responsibility in data ecosystems" by Marianna Capasso doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Argues for a justice-centered approach to synthetic data, reframing it as meaningful and relational within responsible AI ecosystems.
October 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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"Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data" by Nikko Stevens & Amelia Lee Doğan doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Explores how trans activists use and reimagine data as care, community power, and resistance through a trans data epistemology.
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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"Intelligent toys, complex questions" by Wei Xiao & Alexandre Gonçalves doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Reviews AI toys for kids, revealing gaps between educational claims and research, and calls for ethical design and regulation.
October 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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"Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project" by Shaul A. Duke et al. doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Examines how concerns over risk, trust, and surveillance shape public support for health AI initiatives
Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project - Shaul A. Duke, Peter Sandøe, Thomas Andras Matthiessen Skelly, Sune Holm, 2025
We explored attitudes among Danes toward a healthcare project under development, which includes artificial intelligence, healthcare surveillance, and big data –...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM