Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. Attempts to use Big Data to transform car insurance pricing in France have failed. Why? Three possible explanations are discussed: organisational and cognitive inertia, normative preventions…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. This article proposes an ethical framework to navigate life in the datafied world that combines the relational ethics approach of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur with the idiom of co-production…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. This special theme brings together reflections and deliberations regarding the design, implementation, and development of data governance. By addressing “social data governance” as the keywo…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. Digital Earth applications provide a common ground for visualizing, simulating, and modeling real-world situations. The potential of Digital Earth applications has increased significantly wi…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. This article theorizes the relationship between two ways of “seeing” and organizing urban mobility markets: the abstract, algorithmic vision of the mobility platform and the experiential, re…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. Current challenges to sustaining public support for health data research have directed attention to the governance of data-intensive health research networks. Accountability is hailed as an …
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. As a key constituent of China’s approach to fighting COVID-19, Health Code apps (HCAs) not only serve the pandemic control imperatives but also exercise the agency of digital surveillance. A…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. This research commentary proposes a conceptual framework for studying big tech companies as “technical systems” that organize much of their operation around the mastery and operationalizatio…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022.
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. Drawing on a qualitative, multi-case study of three kinds of geographically tethered gig work—ride-hailing, delivery, and domestic services platforms—in the United States, I examine how work…