Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. Data centers are material structures that take up space, use resources like water and energy, and possess a large carbon footprint. This paper examines the broader long-term discussion aroun…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. Rapid innovation in digital services relying on artificial intelligence (AI) challenges existing regulations across a wide array of policy fields. The European Union (EU) has pursued a posit…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. The rise of digital platforms has in recent years redefined contemporary capitalism—provoking discussions on whether platformization should be understood as bringing an altogether new form o…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. Machine learning (ML) algorithms are still a novel research object in the field of media studies. While existing research focuses on concrete software on the one hand and the socio-economic …
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. Digital Twins are conceptualized as real-time digital representations of real-life physical entities or systems. They are explored for a wide array of societal implementations, and in partic…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. This study deploys a critical approach to big data analytics to gauge the tentative contours of data voids in Google searches that reflect extreme-right dynamics of exclusion in the aftermat…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. In recent years, there have been a growing number of online and offline attacks linked to a loosely connected network of misogynist and antifeminist online communities called ‘the manosphere…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. Differences between computationally generated and human-generated themes in unstructured text are important to understand yet difficult to assess formally. In this study, we bridge these app…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. We collect and analyze a corpus of more than 300,000 political emails sent during the 2020 US election cycle. These emails were sent by over 3000 political campaigns and organizations includ…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. This article critically examines the emergence and uses of digital phenotyping in contemporary psychiatry. From an analysis of its discourses and practices, we show that digital phenotyping …