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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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Contesting data power at the margins" by Ngai Keung Chan et al. doi.org/10.1177/2053....

Examines how Hong Kong activists use data imaginaries to challenge surveillance, develop counter-strategies, and mobilize under datafied control.
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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"The platformisation tree in China's AI data annotation ecosystem" by Bingqing Xia & Tongyu Wu doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Uses the “platformisation tree” to examine how disability, precarity, and platform labor intersect in China's AI data annotation economy.
October 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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"China as an analytical lens for AI and society" by Chuncheng Liu & Zhifan Luo doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Offers a four-part framework using “China” to rethink AI, political economy, and global entanglements in critical AI studies.
October 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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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.
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🤖 AI controversies — democratic debate or expert power?

Noortje Marres, Christian Katzenbach & Anna Jobin in BD&S argue that AI debates often reassert authority rather than open democracy.

Are we exposing real tensions — or just staging spectacle?

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#AIControversy #STS
October 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🧪 Synthetic data — justice or synthetic-washing?

@louravn.bsky.social in BD&S examines UN–Microsoft trafficking datasets:
Who benefits? Who is seen? What is erased?

🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2053...

#DataJustice #SyntheticData
October 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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In @bigdatasoc.bsky.social, D&S researcher @briana-v.bsky.social & program director Ranjit Singh consider how the growing adoption of AI in mental health support impacts both users & providers, and advocate for a critical approach to its development & governance. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🎯 Targeted Ads, TikTok & Meme Resistance
New in Big Data & Society by @nataliastanusch.bsky.social

What do TikTok memes reveal about how users understand — and resist — being watched by algorithms?

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October 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Artificial intelligence is mental: Evaluating the role of large-language models in supporting mental health and well-being
by Briana Vecchione & Ranjit Singh.

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October 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🌍 New in Big Data & Society:
Arora & He rethink digital labor in the Global South — not just exploitation, but digital hope.

From “surveillance of care” to “algorithms of aspiration,” they show how marginalized users craft agency within platforms.

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October 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🆕 New in Big Data & Society:
How do AI livestreaming communities imagine & shape AI?

Gutierrez, Nguyen & van Es explore “Nothing, Forever” to reveal everyday AI imaginaries beyond elite discourse.

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October 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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"Data cultures: Contested meanings in a public cultural institution" by Nathalie Casemajor
doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Explores how data culture at Quebec’s National Library (BAnQ) reflects tensions between innovation, governance, and public service goals.

#DataCulture
September 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi proposes an “interviewing AI” framework—using qualitative methods to study how AI systems behave.

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September 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
📊 New in Big Data & Society!

Lindsay Weinberg examines how Microsoft’s Power BI is reshaping Danish higher ed governance—turning students into data points, linking programs to job metrics, and pushing new forms of accountability.

🔗 Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
📢 New in Big Data & Society!
Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer argues generative AI is not just another tool but a learned technology—shaping task-relatedness, interaction, and agency in new ways.

Read here 👉 lnkd.in/eaTDxrSy
September 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM