Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 4, October-December 2024. Large language models (LLMs) and dialogue agents represent a significant shift in artificial intelligence (AI) research, particularly with the recent release of the GPT family of models….
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 4, October-December 2024. Recent reporting has revealed that the UK Biobank (UKB)—a large, publicly-funded research database containing highly-sensitive health records of over half a million participants—has shar…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 4, October-December 2024. Vexing political questions of power, inequality and coloniality permeate the tech sector and its growing use of global ‘virtual’ assembly lines that see them penetrate even refugee camps…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. Local review platforms like Yelp and Google Maps use systems combining automated and human judgment to delineate the limits of acceptable speech, allowing some reviews to remain public and…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. Data work—the routinized, information-processing operations that support artificial intelligence systems—has been portrayed as a source of both economic opportunity and exploitation. Exist…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. In his seminal article, “Cyberspace and the Law of the Horse,” Frank Easterbrook criticized the scholarly trend of developing overspecialized legal approaches to emerging technologies. Eas…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. Growing awareness of the societal consequences of datafication in recent years has given rise to a new form of civil society engagement called data activism. This article examines the disc…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. Over the past decade, China has gradually begun to take a more proactive approach to digital development, passing a range of policies that aim to restructure how data is treated within its…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. Public organisations, like the Netherlands Police, increasingly rely on data. Despite its importance, there has been limited empirical attention to how data is created and how its situated…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. In natural history museums around the globe, museum staff are working on making collections of specimens (such as insects on pins, snail shells, dried plants, mounted birds) digitally avai…