Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. Data-driven public health policies were widely implemented to mitigate the uneven impact of COVID-19. In the United States, evidence-based interventions are often employed in “racial equity…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. Drawing from the resources of psychoanalysis and critical media studies, in this article we develop an analysis of large language models (LLMs) as ‘automated subjects’. We argue the intenti…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. This commentary starts with the question ‘How is it that AI has come to be figured uncontroversially as a thing, however many controversies “it” may engender?’ Addressing this question take…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. This paper follows the reaction of the radiology profession to artificial intelligence (AI). We examine the effort of radiology as a powerful medical specialty to maintain its professional …
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. International migration statistics suffer from extensive gaps and shortcomings. Recently, national statistical institutions (NSIs) have started using big data to complement traditional stat…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. New media studies invested in online political conflict, radical and antagonistic subcultures have taken an interest in the affordances that shape memes, vernaculars and online political co…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. Recently blockchain has become a tool for spatial coordination and appropriation. Globally, the tokenization of land and housing has led to new forms of datafication and increased financial…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. Developed by tech-savvy citizens, Rosie is a bot that autonomously checks the public spending of elected representatives of the Brazilian Lower Chamber and uses Twitter to engage peoplein d…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. Spotify dominates the audio streaming industry and offers an almost limitless library of music and other ‘sounds’. They have recently made various interventions into health, exercise and we…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 2, July-December 2023. Digital platforms produce bias and inequality that have a significant impact on peoples’ sense of self, agency and life chances. Wikipedia has largely evaded the criticism of other algorith…