Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. On the face of it, contemporary “alt-tech” platforms appear more moderate than legacy hate havens. Yet it’s also clear that virulent hate in the form of misogyny, white supremacy, and xenoph…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. Machine-learning algorithms have become deeply embedded in contemporary society. As such, ample attention has been paid to the contents, biases, and underlying assumptions of the training da…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. Digital phenotyping is a rapidly growing research field promising to transform how psychiatry measures, classifies, predicts, and explains human behavior. This article advances the social-sc…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. There is a gap in existing critical scholarship that engages with the ways in which current “machine listening” or voice analytics/biometric systems intersect with the technical specificitie…
Big Data &Society, Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023. Digital identity systems are usually viewed as datafiers of existing populations. Yet a platform view finds limited space in the digital identity discourse, with the result that the platform…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. In this paper, we draw on Foucault’s and Deleuze’s theorisations of discipline and control, respectively, to understand a teacher accountability system in the US state of Texas: the Texas Te…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. Policy discussions and corporate strategies on machine learning are increasingly championing data reuse as a key element in digital transformations. These aspirations are often coupled with …
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. This article examines algorithmic content moderation, using the moderation of violent extremist content as a specific case. In recent years, algorithms have increasingly been mobilized to pe…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. There is little consensus on what artificial intelligence (AI) systems may or may not embrace. Although this may point to multiplicity of interpretations and backgrounds, a lack of conceptua…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. Firms are increasingly personalising their offers and services, leading to an ever finer-grained segmentation of consumers online. Targeted online advertising and online price discrimination…