Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. Our research responds to calls for more engagement with everyday personal data. We used a co-designed, fictional persona called Alex Smith to concretise and represent people’s online inform…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. This article explores the potential of leveraging blockchain technology to facilitate energy transition within urban settings. It explores three innovative market models—peer-to-peer, commu…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023.
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. Data has become a key format for activists to visibilizar (make visible/call attention to) and denounce social issues. Drawing on the concept of “artivism,” we name as data artivism those w…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. In this article, we review the epistemological boundaries of disinformation studies and argue that they are informed by network and transmission models where the unit of analysis (i.e., dis…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. Against a backdrop of widespread interest in how publics can participate in the design of AI, I argue for a research agenda focused on AI incidents – examples of AI going wrong and sparking…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent and its application highly sophisticated. Concerns about AI’s vulnerabilities and future threats have, however, long been deb…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. To date, attempts to address racially discriminatory clinical algorithms have largely focused on fairness and the development of models that “do no harm.” While the push for fairness is roo…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. Power and information asymmetries between people and digital technology companies are further legitimized through contractual agreements that fail to provide meaningful consent and contesta…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. The racial wealth gap in the United States remains a persistent issue; white individuals possess six times more wealth than Black individuals. Leading scholars and public figures have point…